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Gedcom Census v1.0 © N.S.Walker 2004About Gedcom CensusGedcom Census is an application designed to be used in conjunction with Calico’s Family Historian to allow faster and more convenient creation of England/Wales Census source records for single households with occupation and census events linked ...

When the 2.2 upgrade is put on some people have lost the text schemes. It is believed to be when you install 2.2.1 over 2.0.7 If you are in this situation, please download the fixtextscheme program from the downloads, this will replace your standard text schemes with the orginal ones. Please note if...

After closing Family Historian, while it is displayed on a secondary monitor means the program fails to display on subsequent loads. A temporary work around is to update one of the entries in the registry (thanks to Katherine Hopkins for the fix). As follows Click the Start button, select Run, type ...

The below basic shortcut keys are a listing of shortcut keys that will work with almost all IBM compatible computers and software programs including Family Historian. It is highly recommended that all users keep a good reference of the below short cut keys and/or try to memorize the below keys. Doin...

Please post your request for cutomisable properties dialog to the wish list.

Version 2.2 is finished and all 2.0 and 2.1 users can now download a free upgrade to it. We recommend everyone to do this because 2.2 is a significant upgrade and contains a host of new features. You can download the upgrade from the Family Historian Website (at http://www.family-historian.co.uk/dow...

You can remove them click on the name part (in blue) and press delete.

Did you have FH open when you did the upgrade. If so try shutting it down.

The new free upgrade for all users has been released. A link is available in the downloads section. Download This update covers a number of items in the wish list as well as some general enhancements. The information below is taken from the help text from version 2.2 Basic Record Merging and Branch ...

Some people have found the instructions in the manual for resizing a diagram for printing to a printer or to programs like PDF995 to create single page documents a little complex below are a few hopefully simple instructions. First display the diagram and show the page boundaries.   http://www.fhug....

On Saturday the 15th November Simon Orde wrote to the mailing list :
There will be a free downloadable upgrade to 2.2 for all existing 2.x users. Due out soon.

You can re-order items in the Named List pane. If you click on a column heading in a Named List it will sort the list  in the order of the column.  But when you do this it doesn't actually re-order the underlying list.  It just changes the order of items as displayed. Which means that the next time ...

The problem was reported via the forums. This is Simons response and the work around until version 2.2 Simon Says : I spent some time trying to reproduce the problem and have succeeded. So please ignore the previous email, this is a definite bug in Family Historian. Apart from the case mentioned in ...

Dear Simon  I have also tried to get a similar effect & have failed. Here is my situation. A couple married, but the woman already had an illegitimate child to someone else. She then died & the husband remarried. His second wife also had an illegitimate child. I want to show a chart with both illeg...

It should be possible to have an All Relatives diagram that shows A and  C, and all of their families and all of A's spouses (and children by all of them) and all of C's spouses (and children by all of them) as Brian  wants. The trick (as Jane suggested) is that you select both A and C as the  diagr...

Andrea : I am unable to preserve my custom text schemes from one session to the next. When I create a custom text scheme for a diagram, I am able to use it until I close FH. Once FH is closed, the scheme is gone. Jane : I have just tried to reproduce the error and think I have found the cause, as fa...

In version 2.2 you will be able to copy a chart to the clipboard.  As of now, the only way you can do this by framing the diagram in a window and pressing Alt+Print Screen to copy the whole window image.  You can then use the Windows accessory program 'Paint' to trim off any bits you don't want. Not...

As you may know, we are currently working on version 2.2. But we didn't want users to have to wait for 2.2 if important bugs were found. So we put in place a mechanism whereby we could release bug fixes, if important enough, immediately. Bug fix releases are sometimes called 'patches'. There have be...

Probably best just to print out the new section for Reports if you want them.

I have never printed out the manual, so can not comment on the requirement to print it.

Advanced Subject I recently was emailed by someone who said she wanted to display people's full names in diagrams, and asked how she could do this.  By default, most Family Historian 'text schemes' show a person's 'preferred' name - the name they were usually known by followed by their surname.  It...

Since the last Newsletter there have been lots of additions to both the FHUG site and to the Main Family Historian site. On the FH main site http://www.family-historian.co.uk , Calico have added a Demonstration version of the program and a product tour. Wish List I am pleased to announce the additio...

This problem has now been fixed ----------------------------------- There is a current issue with editing your user profile on this site, an invalid input error occurs when the save button is pressed. This is to do with a problem with the user images. To get around the problem, on the Picture sectio...

Progeny Software have launched a tool called GenMark. The Web Site says How many times have you considered sharing your family history research with others, but were hesitant to do so because your authorship might be lost? GEDmark, a new family tree tool created by Progeny Software, solves this prob...

I hope.

This article is designed for people who have not yet bought Family Historian and draws together links to several resources from this site and others to provide an introduction to Family Historian. The Family Historian Product Site This is Calico Softwares own site and provides details of the program...