Family Historian User Group

Many thanks, both, for your help and advice. This morning I've had another 'play'. The results are inconsistent. With FH's Query default settings, using Query's Save Query to File icon for a PDF file a landscape Query saves as a portrait formatted PDF page and columns are squashed together when view...

Hi Jane,

Thanks for the response.

Windows Vista x32 with all updates. FH v4.0.2.

Can you please explain Saving to FH Printer rather than PDF direct? The only options I see from the Query Window Print icon are PDF; CSV; Text.

Regards,

Brian

Belated Happy New Year All This has been driving me nuts today... This morning I generated an All Relatives Query Listing for emailing. It is shown in landscape in FH's Query window. So far so good... but if I save it as a PDF file and open it with Adobe Reader, it showns as a portrait format with t...

Jane,

Are the bulbs low energy?

I think we need to be told!

Brian[rolleyes]

Pete, I don't have anywhere near your number of sources - a mere 822! However, planning ahead, I labelled my Source Records Certificate, Birth/Marriage/Death etc as appropriate. The censuses I named UK Census 1901/1911/1861: BLOGSS, Joe/Ada etc. In the Source Type field I labelled the Types Census; ...

The Christmas lights keep blowing. Is this a bug?!

Thanks for giving me a laugh, Jane, and for all you do.

Have a wonderful Christmas break.

Brian

KSS,

Looks a little like an un-squashed, abridged version of the Odd Fellows logo, which can be found at:

http://www.logotypes.ru/default_e.asp

Any idea of the date and place the photograph was taken?

Brian

I pretty much do what Jane does. Also, I print off a hard copy as a paper backup, which goes into my file. I can then review the document at leisure, away from the computer screen. If you're worried about text file sizes, remember they pale into insignificance compared to digital photographs/media e...

Some old UK paper sizes can be found at http://www.baph.org.uk/general%20refere ... sizes.html or http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengpapr.htm or http://www.sizes.com/materls/paper19eng.htm

Just Google Old Paper Sizes, there are a number of websites.

Brian

Maggie, I pretty much do what Gerry does. Basically, the few military documents I have found I treat as I do any other source, eg birth, marriage, death certificates, gleaning the information as Events/Attributes/Facts etc, and linking the document as Media. Also, I print out a hard copies of the do...

Cheers, BillT, for the Avisoft Accentype2 link - I didn't know about this program, which is a step up from Character Map, and a doddle to use. There must be millions of excellent Freeware programs 'out there'. So here's one of my favourites... Need a dictionary? Try Wordweb - http://wordweb.info/ It...

I have a few relatives with names that have accented characters, e.g. Oisín; Gráinne; DeRomaña etc. When I need an accented character I open the Windows Character Map program, choose the character I require - Select>Copy - and Paste the character in FH in its position in the word, which is what I've...

In the Multimedia Window left-click the photo or picture with the links you wish to delete. Go to Linked Records & Notes. Left-click to highlight the link you wish to delete. On the tool bar menu go to Edit>Delete.

There are other options such as Unlink From...

Brian

Many thanks, Jane...

And thank you for all you do, it is much appreciated.

Brian

Not really a query regarding FH per se... I now want to speed up the printing of FH's Reports, and I would like to resurrect my 'old' HP LaserJet 4M Plus printer, which doesn't have USB connections, just a parallel port. My laptop has USB connections and no parallel port. Problem! Does anyone know w...

My computer crashed,lost everything... Lost everything?! If so, it is such a shame and so unnecessary. Were you not backing-up your valuable files? External hard drives are relatively cheap, USB memory even more so - certainly cheaper than losing your important work due to computer chashes. Also, ch...

If your Events have dates go to Edit>Re-order Events by Date... F9. This will re-order records individually. For a global re-order to all records at once go to Tools>Re-order Out-of-Sequence Data.

Brian

Hope this helps... Go to Edit>File Root. Is Clear File Root grey? If so you haven't made someone the File Root, so FH can't work out the relationships! In the Focus Window right-click on the person you wish to be the File Root. On the pop-up menu click on Make File Root. You could, of course, use th...

Like you, Jon, it bugs me that FH ploughs its own path, yet is Windows-based. So why can't it use standard Windows conventions we all are used to? I want programs that are consistent and productive, and enjoyable to use. When they aren't, it bugs me that I have to learn a different way of doing thin...

Gets my vote, Jon. Why does FH have to be different from virtually every other Windows-based software?

In a slightly different area, three years ago I faced similar issues with a school log book belonging to my wife's primary school: the journal covered the period from 1914 - 1957, quite often with daily recordings and pasted newspaper cuttings for fete days and celebrations etc. It has been a long, ...

Thank you ejp! Your explanation is clear and concise and will, I am sure, help others in the same situation - and thank you, too, for posting the diagram. I just knew that somehow FH must have the ability to record two families linked to one individual, as the scenario of a birth family splitting up...

Many thanks to both of you for the links. Currently I have 'John Smith' recorded as a son of his birth parents, as this is a fact. However, his parents split up and 'John Smith' was brought up from a young age by his aunt and uncle, the 'Jones', adopting their surname when he was an adult, as he fel...

I feel sure the following must have been covered extensively previously, but I just can't find the topic thread. Can anyone point me in the right direction, please? Briefly, I have two 'Smith' children whom, following their parent's splitting up, were brought up by their aunt and uncle, the 'Jones',...

Go to Tools>DiagramDefaults>Text Choose 'New'. Scroll down the lefthand list to 'Sex'. Click on the '>' button to add. Give this custom scheme a name in 'Scheme Name' (say Sex Only) and click OK. You will then find your custom scheme in the 'Select Scheme Listing'. Select 'Sex Only', and away you go...