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Thanks Nick
I found the file you suggested and when I clicked on it FH was opened. However it immediately came up with the error message
"unrecognised file format".

I cannot see any gedcom files. My most recent backup is a zip file.

Since I upgraded my desktop computer to Windows 10 I cannot access my data in Family Historian. The FH programme loads ok but when I go to the project window and select my project I get the error message C;/users/Black's/Documents/Family Historian Projects/Black Riach Project.FH data/Black Riach Pro...

Peter

Many thanks for that. I was able to go into BK and change the date format for all records. It then transferred to FH satisfactorily.

Regards
Bill

Hi Jane Here is an extract of the Gedcom file. The 18-APR-1952 is a typical example of a date which comes across to FH with quotation marks. Regards Bill 1 NAME William McKenzie /Black/ 1 SEX M 1 CHAN 2 DATE 3 FEB 2005 1 BIRT 2 DATE 18-APR-1952 2 PLAC Fyvie Cottage Hospital, Aberdeenshire 2 SOUR @S8...

I am evaluating FH to ensure that all my data will transfer correctly from Brothers Keeper which I use at present. When I import the GEDCOM file from BK all dates have quotation marks around them. For example '25 Feb 2009'.
Any idea what is causing this and how to get rid of the ' ?

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I managed to find a way of selecting the ids in BK before creating the GEDCOM file. problem solved thank you. However it has resulted in a new problem, but I'll raise a separate thread for that.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Jane Thanks for the reply. There are numbers against each name but they are not the same as I had in Brothers Keeper. I read the Gedcom file in a text document and I cannot see the ids listed. Is that the problem? The help files in FH seem to indicate that I could solve this problem by using the ...

I am evaluating FH after using Brothers Keeper for many years. I have other files which cross reference to the record identifiers in BK and want to keep the same numbers in FH. The help files in FH say that other programs may store their record ids in the custom id field while others use the Automat...