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The correct way to change the caption size should be by changing the  font size for Captions in the Format tab of the Options dialog.   Unfortunately, there is no listing for Caption there.  There should be.  I've added it  to the ToDo list. In fact, you can still change the caption size if you want...

In the Individual Summary report, there is a section for 'Individual Events/Attributes'.  The order in which events/attributes appear in this section (and in similar sections in other reports) is determined by the order of the events and attributes within the records themselves.  If  Burial appears ...

The Family Historian Named List functionaity is intended to provide the same kind of functionality and more that you can achieve by 'marking' individuals in other programs.  Here's an example of how you can use it to do what you want to do. Create a named list and add to it all those people who you ...

I thought I'd send out the odd email with tips for 2.1 in case that's of interest.  So here's one: Did you know that you can reposition all toolbars in Family Historian?  This isn't actually a new feature.  You've always been able to do it. But it may be even more worth doing now that the Records Wi...

The Online Help has a 'What's new in Version 2.1?' section, which includes this: 'The Records Window now shows dates for Individual records in an improved format'.  Version 2.0 displayed a person's birth and death dates if known, in the Dates column of the Records Window.  2.1 does it a bit better. ...

The upgrade program is called FH216.EXE. To do the upgrade, you just need to download this program, save it to your hard disk, and run it. Obviously you must already have Family Historian version 2.0 installed on the computer you are running it on. *** Users of Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows N...

Hi All, Firstly let me wish everyone a VERY belated Happy new year. I know you thought I had given up, but I am still plodding away with the web site. There are several new queries in the Query Store, plus I have been adding any useful information from the mailing list to the article section. I got ...

Queries sometimes seem complicated but they are actually much simpler than they may appear.  It helps if you understand a few key points: 1. Every row in a query result set (what you see in the Results tab of the Query Window) corresponds to a single record.  No record ever gets more than one row. 2...

The purpose of this is twofold: (1) As you may have read in this Mailing List, Ian Thirlwell recently lost all of his data in circumstances which could affect other people; so you should be aware of it and understand how to make sure it doesn't happen  to you. (2) To summarise other bugs in F.H. tha...

I just searched for Taubmans in Liv*, for Liverpool. One problem Liverpool on most records is shown as Lpool!

I can't say any of them are very festive, but never mind.  Here they are: Quite a few dialog boxes in F.H. can be resized (a 'dialog box', if you don't know, is a little window that open up to do a particular task - e.g. the Merge/Compare Dialog).  If the dialog box has a maximise button in the top-...

Does anyone know of a way of suppressing the blank pages - if not, can Simon please add it to the wish list? The only way of suppressing them at the moment, is to take note of the page numbers (shown in the top-left corner of printable pages when you view page boundaries - but you may have to zoom ...

Its the time of year when the what do you want for Christmas, stops being a question and starts being a loud shout. All I want the 1851 Census index for Dorset and more hours in the day.  The last week or so has been very busy.  I have written another small Fix program for GEDCOM, this time for Gene...

Hello All,Well a week has passed since the last newsletter, so as the site is still new I thought I would put out another one. Firstly a big thank you to all of you who joined up this week.  We now have over 140 members and 130 plus on the mailing list.A few new things on the site this week.In the Q...

The link below will download a short installable movie on how to enter a simple query from scratch. When you click on the link depending on your movie player you may need to resize the window to make it easy to read. Any comments will be well received and if this is found useful I may do some more. ...

I said in an earlier email that we were actively considering ways of getting 2.1 to you as soon as possible.  Here is a little more information that hopefully will give you all a better feeling for what's going on. Up to now I have avoided giving any dates at all, but I appreciate that this is frust...

> ... you can do it for everything other than a custom family attribute (the one I wanted to use!). I would still be interested to know if this is a design feature, bug or GEDCOM limitation? Its a bug.  Sorry.  It will be fixed in the next release.  Meanwhile you can work around it.  There are 2 op...

>> According to the manual, if the same label is used for multiple parameters it should not re-prompt for a value. But it does. Yes, I'm afraid that's a bug. Sorry about that. It will be fixed in the next release. What should happen is that if you use the same label for data of the same type (e.g. ...

Welcome, Just a couple of notes on using FHUG. If you have any questions, queries, or just want to blow off steam please do so in the forums.  I know the articles I have posted look like messages.  This is simply because they were culled from Simon Orde's postings to the mailing list.   If possible ...

Name Data References Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:55:56 +0100 Peter Rossiter wrote: >> I am perplexed about some of the results from Name Data References in Diagram Options If you want to know what a tag (field) is used for, the best place to look is the Columns tab of the Query window. The tags (for th...

Copying records, attributes and events etc Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:23:16 +0100 John Grasson wrote: > 1) Is there an easy way of duplicating records, in particular I want to use the residence tag with census data and information from parish and civil records to follow the family and the individual m...

Wish List items Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:54:23 +0100 Niall Enright produced some goods items for the Wish List. Some of them were already there - e.g. the option to open the Property Dialog fully expanded by default. One item should already be there in 2.0 though. This was: >> Can you always offer t...

Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:53:50 +0100 Fiona wrote there a list somewhere that gives you a list of valid gedcom tags The only document that can really do this accurately and completely is the GEDCOM spec. You can get a copy of this at http://www.lds.org. Its on there somewhere. Try doing a search for ...

Problems with queries (x2) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:31:02 +0100 John Hanson wrote >> I have included a line in the query to exclude people who died before 1901 ... but there are still some included. The query specifies only the year and not an exact date These appear to be people where the date show...

Query Data Missing Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:07:20 +0100 Dave Pacey wrote: >> I have now entered 44 Events for the 1901 census, and only 22 of them show up in a query based on CENS_DATE Dave used the following filter to find Individual records which have a 1901 census entry: Add if %INDI.CENS.DATE% c...