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My family tree goes back nearly 1700 years and includes numerous royal families in Medieval times. Due to marriages between relatives within some of these ancient families, I have multiple relationship paths to these ancient people and their descendants. Is there a way to specify which of these mult...

I tried those techniques yesterday but my wife's lineage still shows up. I think the problem is that we share multi-great grandparents back in Medieval times.

I don't know if it makes any difference, but I always use the horizontal layout instead of the vertical layout for my tree diagrams.

Is there a setting to toggle on or off that would allow me to suppress my wife's side of the family when creating an All Relatives diagram?

I will do some more experimenting, Mike. Maybe I can find an acceptable compromise. Whether I break the tree down to separate root/mother & root/father diagrams, I still get a really long tree that goes back 48 generations on both sides, due to some common multi-great grandparents back in the Middle...

The objective here is to print a diagram to a single page pdf file that can be sent to relatives. They will then open it on their computer and zoom in and navigate around the diagram to see whomever they want. In order to get the single page format, I have to scale the diagram down to 30% to fit on ...

An update using the Pdf995 PDF printer. It will print my diagram at 300 dpi, but not at 600 dpi.

So, it appears to suffer a similar size limitation as the FH PDF printer.

Well, that article you refer to does state exactly what happened in my case, i.e., “If no PDF file is produced, there may be no error message, but probably the maximum PDF page size has been exceeded. Check the adjustments above, and try reducing the Resolution (dpi) to 300 or lower.” Guess I will t...

I am trying to print an ALL RELATIVES diagram to an FH pdf file. The diagram is set up for a custom paper size of 128.5" x 128.5". When I configure the Print Setup to a resolution of 360 dpi, the diagram will print to an FH pdf file. The only problem that I have with the resulting file is that when ...

Another useful tip that might fall under this general topic. A case may arise, where upon opening FH , you might want to immediately go to the last person whose profile you were working on when you last exited FH . All you have to do is click the Records Window icon (upper left side of the screen), ...

Brian,

I only use the ISR format for my reports, so I can't offer any tips on getting your relationship request to appear in the Narrative report format. However, I am sure that Mike, or others, will be along shortly to help you with that.
Bob

Here is another optional layout to show the relationship to the root person using the ISR format.

I don't think Jane was referring to Custom IDs. She is talking about the standard Record ID, which is what you were asking for, i.e.,
from Jane's reply:

Take the Father's data reference from your added column and wrap it with
=Recordid(...)
Replace ... With the reference.

That entire book is downloadable on Ancestry.com. If you can find the page number that your relatives are listed on, go to that page and download it and attach it as a Source record. In such instances, I always also attach a copy of the title page. If you do not know what page they are on, do a name...

All of my backups go to 3 external hard drives. My working copy of my Project file resides on my computer’s hard drive, and, gets backed up to my external hard drives on a nearly daily basis. I would never trust an Internet storage site for keeping my working copy of my FH project file, or, as a bac...

Still waiting on an answer to the above question from my relative. However, let me explore another possibility about why my custom facts may have imported as " Hidden Facts " when he Restored my FH project file. He ran the Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings plug-in before he Restored my FH...

Yes, I have that file in the Cache folder.

I do a Full Backup of my FH project file after every work session. Been doing this for years. During the backup yesterday, an odd message popped up that I do not understand the cause of. A screen-shot of the message is attached. Anyone have any idea as to what this means, and, what I could have poss...

That may be a default condition. When I create a diagram and first put my mouse cursor into one of the boxes and hold the left mouse button, I get the same thing, I.e., the small cross that creates a dotted line when the mouse cursor is extended beyond the box boundary. As you probably noticed, if y...

This was his initial install of FH, he just purchased the software. He had not yet created a project file in FH. The Restoration of my project file was his first project. Are his symptoms as I described, with your Custom Facts showing as <undefined> ? I will have to get back in touch with him to ans...

Mike, I used the Backup and Restore Custom Settings Plug-in to create the backup custom settings file that I sent to my relative. He also used the Plug-in to Restore those custom settings from the backup file that I sent to him. The FH project file that I sent him was my most current Full Backup fil...

I sent my FH project & custom settings files to a relative so that he could install all my files and have complete access to the complete family tree. All files were installed successfully. When I asked him to open the Tools > Fact Types tab to make sure that all the custom facts got loaded, we foun...

Are you referring to different "media" files or perhaps "media" file locations? My "media" files (jpeg & png) are all in the Media folder that is a sub-folder under my FH project folder. As far as I can tell, all my media files are backed up when I do a Full Backup in FH. i know this to be true beca...

Mike, You state: "Also the FH Medium/Full Backup doe NOT include your Media files, which must be backed-up separately." Perhaps I am mis-interpreting this statement, but I was under the impression that a Full Backup in FH did copy all the media files that are in the FH Media folder. I always do dail...

I no longer see the referenced Plug-In in the store. Has it been discontinued?

Next time, you may decide that it is quicker to work directly in your master FH Project and just download the records you find researching in Ancestry , because Ancestry is one of the worst products for abusing GEDCOM structures, and using different strategies than FH . Highly recommend Mike's advi...