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Jane?

Thanks for your reply, I propose to download GenSmarts in the next few days to see how it works hoping it will provide me with to do hints.

Jane, Mike I have followed the instructions in Create Work In Progress or Research To Do Lists and have a question regarding "Create Custom Column". I would like to have all To Do items in a single column per page 3 of 4 as detailed here: "However, the following Expression combines them all into one...

Jane, Mike

Thanks for your replies, I had a "Senior" moment yesterday, but today all is understood and working as expected. Your help is very much appreciated.

I have followed the instructions to create the Research To Do List and have a question about the "Date" field at the bottom of the blank To Do Tab and how to add further To Do's for the same person. I used the Facts Tab and entered the following in to the Note box of the To Do fact: Birth: Find birt...

Peter & Mike. Thanks for your replies. Peter, I had a look at the 30 postings you mentioned, as expected there seems to be varied opinions about GenSmarts. Mike, I appreciate the time you have taken to download the trial version and as usual your comments are very useful. After reading through the v...

Has anybody used this software in conjunction with Family Historian? I have borrowed a book written by Stella Colwell from my local library which includes information about GenSmarts software "Use GenSmart in association with Family Tree Maker. This program analyses your loaded files too, and sugges...

Hello Jane & Mike Thank you both for your replies, all very helpful. I have looked at GenQuiry and have decided to watch it's progress before making the move to download it, after reading all information on the website and forum it appears to be in the early stages of development. I think creating s...

Mike Thanks for your reply, I have looked at the Knowledge Base : Genealogy Research item and found that very helpful. Before starting my family tree I borrowed some Genealogy books from my local library and they all stated that one must keep notes of all research done whether it was successful or n...

Jane

Thanks for your reply, I will let you know how I get on setting up the Custom Attribute & Custom Tab which I plan to do at the weekend.

Brian

Jane Thanks for your reply, I am recording all my facts and creating sources for them. I had a quick look at "Create Work In Progress or Research To Do Lists" in the Knowledge Base and failed dismally when trying to create both the custom attribute and custom tab, this may be because I was very tire...

Jane

Thank you for swift reply, I created the Public folder and everything has worked, I am so impressed with this software.

Brian C

Sorry if this is not the correct place to post my request for help. I am still a relatively newbe to Family History research and have the following questions: 1) I have tried to find books explaining what information should be kept in research logs and worked examples, has anybody found what I am lo...

I have recently downloaded Show Project Statistics plugin which has helped me identify records that have missing births and deaths. I have tried to export the Records and Facts as a csv file and I get the following error message ...ily Historian\Plugins\Show Project Statistics.fh_lua:145: Unable to ...

Mike

I did use the File > Split Tree Helper, and I will use the Plugin from your SkyDrive.

Thanks for all your help, Brian

Mike, Thank you for your reply and sorry for not replying sooner. I first noticed the Link/Note funny after I copied my file as recommended in 'Getting the most from Family Historian5' page 175 Splitting Files. I did this in order to create a GEDCOM file to make a new Project to send to my sister, i...

Jane, Thank you for reply.

I did carry out a file merge with media at the Autosource option. I did click + next to the link note and no source is attached. Therefore, I guess I will have to attach the source for each record manually?

Brian C

I have a number of documents (BMD Certs, Census etc)which have the Link/Note after each media item and can not see in the Getting the most from Family Historian 5 book what has caused these messages. In the Multimedia Records window, under Linked Records & Notes I have the persons ID Record icon (Cu...

Thank you for your replies, Peter, David & Mike.

I will look at Ancestral Sources and the Knowledge Base as suggested today and use the sample project to see how it works and experiment with it.

Kind Regards

Brian C

I have just started using FH5 and wondered what is the best/preferred way of entering Birth, Marriage, Deaths and Census information: Should I create a source record for every individual when entering BMD & Census information, i.e 1911 Census for (my grandfather) William Curtis and link/copy this to...