Family Historian User Group

Alan, I think you are asking for the Source record Data Reference for a Template Metafield named Records Office. See the FH Help page under General Topics > Advanced Topics > Understanding Data References and scroll to the end where it explains about Data References And Metafields . There is an iden...

It is talking about the AS Census entry main screen where you enter the grid of people, not the Census Template Editor.
The Text: box at the bottom has the Auto source text option.

Bob, it is difficult to say what you did. There's no Marriage event recorded for either 'family' so that is not the cause. It is unlikely that you would have added the same person via the Spouse tab of the Property Box. I wonder if you linked their daughter to her parents again when she was already ...

Excellent. I suggest you delete all except the latest 3 or 4 Snapshots. FH will create a new one each day that you open FH but should only keep the last 8 by default. FH should automatically purge the older ones but that sometimes fails so you should manually check occasionally. That large number of...

Sorry, I was not sure that you really meant 'page breaks' and thought you meant 'line breaks'. 'page breaks' would pose a problem in Reports because they would force a new page in the middle of the Report. The best I can suggest is to insert a line of underline ( _ ) characters to indicate page boun...

Thank you, unfortunately, that confirms that there is no GEDCOM file in that project folder. Please delete the debug.log and Rowland Fam desktop latest.fh_proj files which are very old and of no use. The Snapshots folder holds automatic backup copies of your Rowland Family GEDCOM file for the Dates ...

The quality of the screenshots is fine but the content is less so. The Rowland Family.fh_data folder contents screenshot is the wrong version. This is an example of your muddled data which must be rationalised before this thread completes. Your screenshot is for This PC\Documents\Rowland Family.fh_d...

See the FHUG Knowledge Base How to Handle People With Multiple Names that includes advice for Adoption. The usual convention is to record the birth name as the Primary Name and any others as Alternate Names, but some users prefer to reverse that for adoption. Don't forget the Adoption Event and appr...

Margaret, I've moved this to the Sources, Citations & Repositories forum which is a better fit. Yes, using the Add Text from Source > ... > <Empty Text> option in the Citation Window should open the rich text editor window where you can use any layout characters such as space, tab, and newline just ...

The '2023-02-22 1948' refers to the year-month-day time of the backup. So 22 Feb 2023 19:48pm. It should have been similar to the memory stick date/time stamp. Are those symptoms repeatable? Is it possible that instead of accepting the File name that was offered by FH that you accidentally clicked o...

The File > Project Window... Location: is now correctly referring to the OneDrive Family Historian Projects folder. I'm a bit confused when you say you have opened each Project in turn, yet the Project Window for each project says "Current Project: None". It should name the currently open Project. P...

Perhaps I should not have mentioned the BTW :oops: Did you keep on browsing down to OneDrive then OneDrive Documents and Family Historian Projects? Forget I mentioned it and use the method you were originally using. The last folder you must select is Family Historian Projects before clicking OK. i.e...

Ok, you are nearly there. After OneDrive Documents, select Family Historian Projects and click OK. (BTW: If you scroll up in the Browse For Folder window you should find This PC and inside that the Windows (C:) drive, inside that Users, inside that Edward, and so on...) Then continue with my earlier...

Yes, you can print directly from the Diagram Window to any local printer. Use File > Print Setup... to choose your Printer Name and set the Paper Size, etc, as required. Then use File > Print... to choose the same Printer Name and check its Properties before clicking OK to print the Diagram currentl...

Edward, as I said earlier, it helps us if you can be very precise. You said "Previously I used the FH icon app to open FamilyHistorian. This no longer works." So I took that to mean that the FH Icon no longer opened Family Historian. If you can open FH and display the File > Project Window then we c...

So that proves FH is installed and runs OK from the Start menu FH Icon. Where is the FH Icon you used before that did not work? On the Start window righthand pane, or in the Taskbar across the bottom, or on the Desktop screen? If clicking that FH Icon still does not run FH then use the following fix...

Adrian, Export Gedcom File plugin Version 5.2.3 is an old prototype version and the latest is V5.5 in the Plugin Store.
It does not change the way Dates are handled but just an older version.

I don't think any of those search terms will work in the Ancestral Sources Forum . If you search the FHUG site via the Search... box top right, then " Ancestral Sources templates " finds the Downloads, however “ Ancest or Sources templates ” will not work anywhere. Alternatively, you have to switch ...

This issue is fixed in FH V7.0.21.0.

You don't need any search terms. Just open the Knowledge Base via the link at the top of this forum page and click the Downloads/Plugins option in the toolbar, select Downloads where you can choose the type of customisation.

Yes, see the FHUG Knowledge Base Downloads where all the FH and AS user developed custom downloads reside. Any user can upload useful customisations there using the Add/Update a Download form.

Guys, it also depends on how OneDrive has been configured. Sometimes, the default Windows My Documents folder can be inside the OneDrive folder. Then the FH Project Window default Location: My Documents\Family Historian Projects will work just fine. If you look back over this thread that has been th...

Flexible CSV importer plugin Version 1.9.2 Date 13 June 2023 is now in the Plugin Store.

Edward, I cannot help but notice that your Microsoft OneDrive Account Email address has changed several times over recent years. Is there any particular reason? Now the OneDrive folders should be fully synchronised, which can be confirmed via Windows File Explorer. So please confirm that on both PC ...

I forgot to say how to check which OneDrive account you are using. On the Desktop PC, click the OneDrive cloud icon in the Notification area bottom right. Click the cog Help & Settings top right and choose Settings. In the OneDrive Settings dialogue click Account on the left. Make a note of the Acco...