Family Historian User Group

Ok, I have bumped up the display to 10 for now. Hope that suits.

I hope everyone will enjoy the new look FHUG, in addition to the new look, there are some enhancements to the base software these include your own custom menu, just click on Edit My Menu to add your own personal links. The ability to save instant messages and to 'file' message away from your inbox. ...

The wish list here at FHUG contains user requested enhancements and over the time it has been active, many of the top voted items have been added to FH, by Calico. As some of you may know the original wish list voting was open to abuse and unfortunately a few people tried to sway the results by voti...

Once autocitation is on, you can in the records window or all tab right click on the event, or person and use 'paste autocitation' to paste the citation to the record or event.

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Just turn off spouse boxes using the icon at the top or in the diagram options.

Make sure if you have customised the standard text schemes in version 2 you save them to custom schemes before installing version 3. The extensive changes to the power of schemes means that in most cases redoing them is probably the best policy, but if you want to retain them make sure they are cust...

Later V2.1 CDs use the 32bit installer anyway. I believe there is a now a mechanisum in place to deal with people who have older V2 CDs and need to install to Windows 64.

Simply insert a text box from the diagram menu or by right clicking on the background.


just a reminder as above, PLEASE ask questions via the forums rather than using the comments on the article.

Thank you.

Once again I will be going up to London for the SOG Fair, on Saturday 29 April 2006.  I will be giving a short introductory talk on FH including some of the new features of Version 3 at 1:15pm.  I will be around on the SOG computer area, both before and after my talk should anyone want to come and s...

A couple of minor bugs/issues have been identified in V3 neither are mission critical in that they do not effect the safety of your data or damage in any way your information. Since V3 contains such a huge amount of new functionality small issues are bound to arise in my opinion, despite the best ef...

I suspect most people here upgraded.

Old text schemes will be migrated, but to be honest if you want to start to use the newer features, you might find it easier to redo them.

There is so much more control with the new schemes what with the conditional lines font changes etc.

This only occurs if you select for the Table of contents item a Root Person who is private, as long as you avoid starting your trees in the TOC with a private person this will not occur.

With lots of people expecting V3 imminently, I have created a new forum for Version 3 questions, I realise there is much which has not changed between versions, but with the major changes in Text schemes and diagrams, I felt it would be easier to split off usage questions.

Version 3 Usage Forum

I am pleased to say that our manufacturers have now given us an expected delivery date for version 3 of Family Historian. On this basis, we are expecting version 3 (both the boxed version and CD upgrades) to arrive at UK resellers on March 28th. It will take a little longer to reach resellers outsid...

Simon Orde
In my last update on version 3, I said we were now expecting FH3 to be out in February. At this point, I'm sorry to say, it's looking to be towards the end of February at the earliest, and could well slip back into March.
My apologies once again.

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There is no demo for V3, there is a demo for Version V2.3 on the main Family Historian Site. I would not expect a demo for V3 until at least the release of V3.

Calico Press Release We are today announcing details of Family Historian 3. The expected release date of Family Historian 3 is January 2006.  This will be a substantial upgrade and a major step forward for Family Historian, offering a cornucopia of new features and enhancements, and as usual a good...

Things have been quiet for a while, so I thought I'd post a few Family Historian tips in case they are of interest. (1) If you open a GEDCOM file created by someone else, a quick way to locate some key people (e.g. the author's own immediate family) is simply to click on the Record Id column in the ...

GedMill which works very well with Family historian, having been written by a FH user has just been upgraded to version 1.4 In addition Alex has created a 'pro' pay for version which includes extra display options. For those of you who are looking for an HTML based output without using a php based s...

Erik which one the reports for descendants are already in 2.3, the all relative diagram is there, just change the settings to show decendants from every ancestor, also the decendant narrative report was added in 2.3

Someone asked me recently if it is possible to do a search within a diagram - i.e. have the relevant person highlighted in the diagram, rather than be switched back to the records window.  The answer is that with a little effort you can - at least provided that you are not already using the 'Mark' f...

Its the time of year again for the SOG show at the RHS New Hall, Greycoat Street, London. I will be attending and will be giving a short talk on Family Historian at 1:15pm. I should also be around for the rest of the afternoon on the Computer help desk for the society. The following PDF gives more i...