Family Historian User Group

By the same thinking that narrative descendents doesn't start a new paragraph at the next generation down if there's nothing more to say about an individual, in the narrative ancestors if we've already said 'John Smith, son of William Smith and Mary...' there's no point adding at the next generation...

You can undo in text boxes... Ctrl+Z or right click and select Undo

This is normal behaviour in dialogues in Windows. I'm sure it would be a mistake for FH to do anything different.

Sorry Jane (will try to do better in future)

For diagrams in particular, you could get more on the screen (and save paper if you're printing it) if there was an option to omit the surnames of children where they are the same as the father (or possibly single mother)... common practice in hand-drawn trees. For reports it would just make them a ...

'Auto-Citation Enabled' is nearly always shown when I'm working on my tree, but sometimes I forget to change it to the document or census or whatever I'm actually looking at. It would be much more helpful to give the title of the source. Hopefully this would save me having to backtrack and correct s...

Difficult to believe(if they really were twins) that they wouldn't have been registered together unless one died before the birth was registered. So apart from that, surely the only possibility is that one is mis-transcribed in (or just missing from) the index. Must be one of the few cases where 'vi...

Sorry Jane, yes, I suppose that is a seperate wish item really, or more by way of a sugestion for the designers to think about some time perhaps (do you want me to raise it as such?). And yes, you can of course make a diagram like that (or any other fancy layout) on a one-off basis to print or keep,...

I have 52 pages of 'current' hot matches at the moment, plus 8 pages in the ignored list, so I think the 50 pages limit must be a myth.

I have INDI.OCCU[<99] as the column definition in the records window so it always shows the last (right click the column title and click Configure Columns)... Usually better, but annoying if it's annuitant, or pauper. Worth noting that these are not strictly the date order, but the order the events ...

Remember that people are not alwaysd baptised where they're born. It's often the mother's home parish, and sometimes I suspect a preference for some other religious persuasion rather than the local parish church.

Having a subscription to Ancestry already for the censuses, we gave up using 1837 when Ancestry got the BMD index images. Generally we find them easier to use, and at no extra charge. However, if you don't find a page for the name you're looking for in a particular quarter it may be because when the...

Having spent a week or so exchanging emails with GenesReunited support (who incidentally are extremely helpful) about how their hot-matches work (or don’t), I thought other FH users might be interested in the result. I’ll start with my conclusions and explain why afterwards. If you have a very small...

Thanks, (I use a few extra columns too), but what I meant was how do you search for possible duplicates in the first place?

Ours is on Tribal pages, and we get quite a lot of complements on it... We use split tree helper with a query to cut it down to just relations, spouses and immediate in-laws, and just upload the result periodically. It mangles the notes a bit and ignores a lot of interesting stuff (you can see our c...

How does everyone else do this? We have a lot of names on our tree, and from time to time we find that someone is there twice, perhaps once as a child, and again as a parent-in-law in another branch. I did a query to sort people by surname, first-name, date of birth... you can browse through the res...

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I have one such example on my tree and I made one of them female with a record flag and a note to self to do somethng about the diagram style to make him look male if I ever need to... still comes out as She in the reports though. I suppose you could also change all the associated sentences.

Just wnated to add an oar here... the official view is that Gedcom doesn't support sme sex couples, but I was reading a (presumably unnoficial) explanation of the gedcom definition a while ago on the web (and I've spent ages looking for it since but can't remember where I found the link) which said ...

Simon, I'm sorry, I've only just noticed your reply... I'd be happy to do an exhaustive investigation... not sure it's appropriate to post it all here though. If you email me I'll send you what I find. Since I discoverd the problem I've trained myself to hit F5 all the time, so I'll need to do a bit...

I'd vote for Tom's buttons rather than having to know the keyboard, and to look them up in the manual, you'd need to know the function exists in the first place. But reading his problem, it occurred to me that before we invented computers I used to draw family trees like this... http://www.fhug.org....

A lot of sources are web sites. Could we have a URL in the source that would link directly rather than having to copy it from the source notes into the address bar.

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I know this doesn't belong here, but I couldn't let that lie as a recomendation... Don't Do It!. It could be argued that the ability to open two updatable copies of the same file should be considered a bug, or at least a deficiency.

Sorry, I realised I'd posted this in the wrong place... yes, Tab does it too but not always what you want. The main point is it shouldn't just loose what you typed if you don't explicitly save it.

First let me say that many of the improvements in V3 are wonderful... I'm still exploring the possibilities. But I was a little disapointed that the bugs in the properties dialogue haven't been addressed. If you (for example) add a second source to an individual, type something in 'Where within...' ...

I must do this exact sequence about a dozen times a week, and find it horribly error prone (put it down to my age)... I find a new bit of information about some people on the tree (maybe a census, maybe an email from a contact)... I add a citation (maybe a new source, maybe an existing one), then I ...