Family Historian User Group

I've been following this thread, with interest, because I'd had the same initial problem with FH3 and eventually chose to adopt the Chapman Codes to pinpoint places I wanted to record. This was for several reasons :- 1. The number of columns available in FH (as identified by GeoffWalter), 2. The fac...

Hello Susan, Most of your requirements are fairly easy to implement - IF you are using FH4. 1. With the person required as the basis of the diagram selected, go to the View menu and select 'Standard Diagrams'. Then select 'All Ancestors - No Box'. 2. Once the diagram has opened, select the Diagram m...

Hello Julie, I wrote a query to do {almost} exactly what you have been seeking to achieve and have just uploaded it to the Query Store. It may have a column or two that are not relevant to your requirements so feel free to make a copy and adjust the query as you wish. The best way I found to learn a...

Hi EJP,

Many thanks - your diagram shows exactly what I was trying to say and (as the saying goes) a picture paints a thousand words. [smile]

Bilko

Hello Roger, I've just had a look at a variety of charts produced where I know that my Great-Grandmothers parents were first cousins. To explain what I found, it is easiest for me to use Ahnentafel numbers. Taking my Great-Grandmother as the 'Root', I found the following - 1. all the Charts which ar...

I totally agree that the limit is what you as a historian want to record. There have been numerous examples of people being omitted due to their being 'related by marriage' and later being found to be a blood-cousin. There was discussion recently about recording the Registrar or Vicar, which one lad...

Hi Paul & Sabine, I've just tried Jane's previous answer and have a query which includes the Source ID number for the individuals Birth Source. If required this could be used within the 'Rows' tab to get the limits (as Sabine requested). However, I have had a problem like this before. Where I wanted...

Hello all, My wife's brother-in-Law dropped in today and kindly agreed to spend some time updating my wife's Family Tree. I was, however, not expecting what he had to tell and I am now at a loss as to how to record the data and how to adjust diagrams (if at all). He revealed that his Grandfather was...

I too have recently had problems with the cursor moving slowly when viewing diagrams. However, I discovered that (in my case) it was not due to FH but rather, the recent upgrades with MS Windows. Personally, I suspect that some of Microsoft's changes have been the cause of problems that they deliber...

Hello Ric, I've looked at the detail that you want to add and sympathise with the feeling of drowning - I've had the same (and still do). I'd like to help by showing an alternative view using FH4 {if using FH3 omit step 1}. 1. Scan the Certificate and add the scanned image using the Add Media facili...

I've just added another set of Icons to the download area. These try to cover some of those requested recently, BUT I've found that some are not easy to see clearly. If anyone would like something for a specific trade / period of time or qualification, please let me know - I'll try to help. Bilko [s...

With regard to Nicks comment > A lot of users have told me that once they began to use Gedcom Census it made them want to go back and re-enter their census data as they like the way GC does things and wanted consistency in their recording methods. I must agree! After a couple of tries of using GC, I...

Hello Bill, I'm a little confused when you say - 'but this suggests that I have got to put the flags back again, myself.' I have transferred from V3.1.2 to V4 without a problem and have been very impressed so far. I have noticed that V4 has a lot more facilities and, therefore, I have begun to enhan...

I'm currently one of the increasing millions of unemployed and, therefore, have a little time to update my Family Tree etc. The update to FH4 has given me a lot of work [smile] with many photos of people AND places as well as  documents. Adding Icons is another step forward. If anyone has any other ...

Many thanks Jane - once again your advice has been followed successfully. I have uploaded a set of Icons which include the military and other occupations. Included in the set are some Census Icons which were added some time ago to the downloads store (but I cannot find by whom [frown]). Credit is du...

I have been scouring the net recently trying to find appropriate and usable icons for the army (a soldier), Navy (an Anchor) and RAF (a propeller) and have almost succeeded. I've also got icons for 'Ag Lab' (a farmer) and Driver/Carter (a lorry). Until the question was asked, I had not considered WW...

Hi Geoff, I've tried the same idea as yours for the Census images and have had no problem with a new project. When I checked one of my Census Images and it's path, the Multimedia Object window gave me a 'Linked File' path of - 'MediaCensus Images1841HO107-384-21-5-4.jpg'. From this I guess that the ...

Hello again, I've done a little more checking on this subject and got myself confused [oops]. My previous post was wrong [oops] in that the word 'last' in square brackets should be placed after the FAMS - ie INDI.FAMS[last]>HUSB>NAME[1]:SURNAME. However, I also found another slight 'problem' which c...

I had thought about the idea of having a woman's married surname as a column - but had never got round to doing it. The two posts, however, got me thinking and I've just tried it. The process I used is - 1. right click on the Column Header (of the Records Window) and select 'Configure Columns ...', ...