Family Historian User Group

For some time 'My History' have provided a printed and bound copy of the standard Getting Started Manual. There is a small advertisement for it here on the FHUG site. The My History version is full colour and has options to add additional pages Calico Pie have recently announced a new paperback vers...

Several user accounts have been un-subscribed from the mailing list for non delivery of mail to mail-in.freeserve.com, this is a problem at the 'Orange' end and is not something we have any control over, if you have been un-subscribed, please simply resubscribe, and contact Orange if the problem per...

Do a search here for Genes Reunited, for instructions, you need to strip all the extra data fields as the GR import is very poor.

I have just noticed on the FH main site you can buy FH3, the full version as a download from them direct. The price is a little more than amazon.co.uk are currently charging for the Boxed program, but it might be a handy option for people outside the UK. There is no option to buy a V2 to V3 upgrade ...

WHATS NEW IN 3.1.2? You can now specify the size of margin to leave around diagrams when saving a whole diagram in Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF). Also, the problems that some users experienced when saving diagrams in Enhanced Metafile Format have now been fixed. If you have Windows XP or later, you...

Yes it's open anywhere in the World (there will be a postage charge), there is no close date.

As many of you know My History  produce a printed copy of the FH manual, bound in a ring binder so extra pages can be added for new releases and printed on good quality paper in full colour,  we a pleased to announce they are offering £1 off the standard price for FHUG members,  just follow the link...

Can you confirm you already have V3.0 or 3.1

Not seen that problem, and the download has downloaded fine, and installed in all tests. I can't think why any download damage would stop you installing 3.1.1

You could try contacting Calico for advice.

I have checked the file and it looks to be fine. This sort of damage is normally caused by a cut off download.

See How Do I fix a broken download in the Knowledge Base

The 3.1.1 release version is identical to the beta version released last month. If you have already installed the beta there is no need to download the release version. The upgrade contains the following support: Some GEDCOM files downloaded from Ancestry have been found to contain bad or missing fa...

Just saw your message. You need to configure your printer, to the page size you want to use prior to setting the position of the chart.

Firstly Happy New Year to everyone. I hope everyone has a great time over Christmas. As Admin I will not be around too much over the next week or so as we have the family over for Christmas, and are then off visiting for the rest of the week. Normal service will resume in the New Year. http://www.fh...

Calico Pie, have today released a free upgrade to V3.1 for all Version 3.0 users.
For more information see What's New In Version 3.1
This can be downloaded from this site and family-historian.co.uk

The PROP attribute is there in attributes as Possessions.

I felt 'Knowledge Base' was a better name for what we are trying to build. The Knowledge base is now populated with a fair amount of information. Those of us who have been working on it would love some feedback. Please visit the Knowledge Base and leave some comments here, what do you think, will th...

Sorry not my strong point, should correct it's self soon.

We at FHUG are building a help and documentation system for Family historian, to help both beginners and experienced users learn all the fantastic features built into FH.

BUT to this we need YOUR help.


Discuss the project and find out more here

You sound like you have not got Acrobat reader installed or that for some reason Photoshop Elements has overridden its use.

What I would do is install Acrobat Reader again and hopefully it will take control of the PDF files again.

Click on the down arrow next to the FHUG logo and select toolbar options.

I have been working on a toolbar for IE and firefox, based on a internet service. If you would like to try it, just follow the link below to download it. I have included a few options which I hope you will all find useful. email notifier (check for new mail} A menu with many Family History Links The...

The main site is now back up, at least for now. I understand due to the poor service being provided by the ISP Calico are intending to move to a new web host. It's the nature of these things to cause a little more downtime while the site is moved, but hopefully once the new host is in place the outa...

Merge records was added to FH in Version 2.2

The numbers change as new items are added, link should work now.

Suppose you have some extra text that you want to add into boxes in diagrams, but you want it to be free text that you write on a per-person basis. If the text is such that you are happy for it to be a paragraph in the person's record notes (or several paragraphs) you could do the following: Edit yo...