Family Historian User Group

There seem to be some inconsistencies lately Gerry with how Ancestry are enabling movements on and with their images. A week ago I could click and drag ,this week I can't. last week I could zoom in using the mouse wheel,now I have to select a magnification amount. I assume some changes are impending...

Hi Jane, I had tried that but the image saved was just a fraction of the whole page and the rest greyed out.. Oddly though when I went back to my PC to check if it had changed I found it had not and that using Rt Click's Save Picture As still worked. I have noticed that IE's interface has changed a ...

I have been saving census images from Ancestry by right clicking on the image and selecting Save As then placing them into my Media file. Yesterday I succumbed to the reminders I had been getting on my netbook that I should upgrade from IE6 to IE8 and then found I could not copy images afterwards. I...

Many thanks for clarifyng that Mike. Back to the Knowledge Base then!
Dagwood

I've just been running through some of the queries I have downloaded and noticed something odd. When I ran the Kinsfolk Census Done query I noticed a very low number of census records compared with the number I knew I had entered via Ancestral Sources. To check this I ran Census Record Checklist-All...

Jane said: It shouldn't be that slow, I am getting around .5 second responses this morning. Hi Jane, just to let you know down here in darkest Cornwall I'm getting response times of less than a second also. It's seems a shame that not everyone makes a donation to FHUG or AS. Possibly the answer is ...

Thank you Jane , then it's full steam ahead on Ancestral Sources and I'll pursue it from there.
Dagwood

I've not used icons before and have been looking at the tutorials and previous threads and would like to start using them but cannot see a simple way of starting. I think this is because it would appear that icons can only be added if you have raised flags first and I'm not into queries yet. Is it p...

Thanks Jane, It does not seem to work as easily as the link indicates but for the moment I'm putting that down to an inadequate mike and will try again when the new one arrives.
Dagwood

I'm interested in using SR as an alternative to lengthy typing sessions and would like to know if anyone has used this in conjunction with freebie text editing applications? I do not have Word and at the moment have Open Office . I know that Windows 7 supports SR without buying any additional SR sof...

Yes indeed, what would we do without the assistance given by those two. Well done, thanks, and a Very Merry Christmas to you, and of course all forum participants.
Dagwood

I said I'd get back and report on how things have gone. In his last post in this thread Tatewise asked if I could attach an image of my Tools > Work with External File Links window showing the entire folder structure. This I did by sending him an e-mail and that showed that a considerable number of ...

A big improvement now! I've taken your advice Mike and renamed the project to FH Project ( much less confusing) and where census and photos were missing have ensured copies are now in the project folder. I then opened up the multimedia window and could see all the folder locations and especially tho...

Thanks for that info Mike, things are becoming much clearer now. I guess from what you say the newly created multimedia folder contains whatever I now decide to add to it eg the missing photos? In which case is it ok for me to delete ( or probably move) the original folders out of the family Tree 20...

Hi Mike, I've been reading the Help and other notes you suggested and reached the point where I ensured my gedcom file and multimedia were in the one folder. In my case it is called Family Tree@2011. On creating the project and subsequently remapping the multimedia to the point where I had almost al...

tatewise said: ..............What you do next depends on how your current Multimedia files and folders are organised. As the Help suggests, it is best if you can arrange all your Multimedia files into the same folder as your Gedcom (.ged) file, or sub-folders of that folder............. . Thanks fo...

For some of the background to this thread you should read 'Using Flash Drive' by Barbaramac in this section. In that I stated 'For some reason I always have problems when trying to use Projects rather than Gedcom files. I only have the one tree and if a Project with relative paths is the answer then...

johnmorrisoniom said: If you change your multimedia to have relative, rather than absolute, paths, then the linking problem will go away. My paths are all set to relative. I have W7 64bit on one machine and Xp 32 bit on another, and no problems with multi media. For some reason I always have proble...

Just one word of warning about DropBox and it is to do with linked multimedia. I have one machine linked to the multimedia and find the netbook does not sync with it as the path ie the file descriptions do not quite match up as I have XP on the netbook and Windows 7 on the pc. Having remapped the fi...

johnmorrisoniom said: On Your old computer, go to the projects folder, find your project foler, the right click and 'Send To' your flash drive. Move to flash drive to your notebook and copy the project folder into the projects folder, The one you have already created will be overwritten, not merged...

Hi Peter, Is that name Alderwood?
Dagwood

Jane said:
If you use a specialist you just send your Project (or a cut down version of it), plus your fhc file for the layout you want.

If you are using a general office printer (or getting someone you know to print it for you) then save it as a PDF for best results.

Thanks Jane
Dagwood

Jane, that's very interesting, is there a preferred format that printers usually like eg PDF, jpeg or Tiff etc?
Dagwood

tatewise said: I am a bit confused when you refer to 'lines ( 2,4,6 etc )' when it is lines 1,3,5,7,etc that should be changed. Do these lines all include the word ancestor or the word descendant? The Root Female you choose should be the person whose ancestral line you want. Perhaps try starting fr...

tatewise said: The 1st Row Filter originally was: Add if a descendant [max.1 generations] of ['Root Mother']. Include original individual. The 2nd Row Filter was and still is: Exclude if %INDI.SEX% matches Male The 3rd Row Filter originally was: Add if a descendant [max.1 generations] of anyone in ...