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longfield said: Thank you for replying. I tried to see the other day if there was a prepared query along that line, but couldn't find one. If there isn't one, how would I create one? I've only 'split trees' using that feature before, and had to be talked through it. Not very good at technical stuff...

Partial Success! Hi Mike, I've worked thro' your instructions ( and very clear they were too) but I am now showing the root female (0) her daughter (1) and grandchild (2),the root's sister (0) and the sister's children (1) also. The children and g'children are shown with positive generation numbers ...

I need to learn more about queries so now I'm home I'll have a bash at your instructions Mike and thanks for all your guidance. In case it makes it easier for anyone who does not want to try the query route can I suggest something I tried while away and that is to creat the Ancestor diagram from whi...

Thanks Mike , I won't get a chance to try either way before I get back home on Tuesday but will give it a go then. I've never played around with Queries before other than to run a standard one, so it will be interesting to see whether it works after I've fiddled with it.
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Interesting! I just tried that having read your last post and got the same but with no lines connecting boxes. I'll try again later.
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Thanks JJane, they work perfectly. Is it possible though to work the other way round and select a female and list her ancestors? The cream would be on the cake if so and especially if I could then create a diagram from the list. Is this possible?
Thanks
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Thanks Mike, I'll give that a try.
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Having become intested in the female DNA (see Research forum post)I wondered if it is at all possible to show a maternal ancestor diagram. Any suggestions most welcome.
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I have started reading Brian Sykes' book 'The Seven Daughters of Eve' and halfway through feel nothing will be the same again. As a youngster many years ago I followed with interest the travels of Thor Heyerdal and his Kon Tiki expedition which sought to prove that Polynesians had travelled with the...

Anne, thank you for sharing your experience of paternal DNA studies with us. It reinforces my feeling that: a) I still do not know very much about the subject b) how careful one needs to be before plunging into one's wallet and paying out good money until Mrs Dagwood and I are certain that we know w...

Thanks Gerry for your reply. I guess it raises doubts in my mind regarding how accurate going back 12 generations would be and with that expense how good the value is. I wonder what others think. What always surprises me is the number of times you hear on TV that they've traced someones lineage back...

I cannot find much anything about this subject on the forum and a lot of the articles found thro' Google are pretty technical so I wondered if members would like to share any experiences of having their DNA analysed. How much did it cost? How was it used? Did you use it for maternal or paternal line...

I managed to recreate the problem! It wasn't that both machines were on and using FH it was that I had two applications of FH running on one machine. Why? you might ask, and I can't give a good answer other than that instead of switching between a diagram window and a focus window I had opened FH tw...

Having thought about it, at no time were both machines on together yesterday. Puzzle isn't it?
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Will do , thanks Jane
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Something odd happened today when using FH on two mc's with Dropbox synchronising the changes. For the first time that I can recall when I went to open FH ( using Gedcom file rather than a Project) I noticed that in addition to my updated file I also had two addditional files in my FH folder both ha...

Apologies for not having thanked you all for your replies before now. I'll try the CSV approach this weekend and get back if I have any problems.
Dagwood

I get it. Thanks for that Jane, your advice as helpful as ever.
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Thank you Jane, I do like your bracketed spouse name suggestion. As you say they all end up together which of course having Unknown at the end does but nowhere near as neatly. I suppose I might sound selfish here when I say I am not too worried about sharing info with anyone, and if I do probably wi...

I wondered what others do with regard to style of entry re direct ancestor/descendants v more remote 'relatives' ,e.g. I put direct ancestors in capital letters, and blood relatives in lower case but with capital initials, and non-blood relatives in totally lower case. Is this the standard conventio...

Well you learn something every day. Thanks for the answers. I'll have to refind Milton Abbas and will check what denomination church it is. As the article Jane's link took me to says, it must be increasingly difficult to get 4 people to meet the requirements nowadays.
Dagwood

Re 'There is nothing to stop you printing Getting the Most From Family Historian which is in paginated book form, or from printing the FH Help pages. ' I started to do this and gave up quickly! At about £16 I found the printed book more convenient and excellent value compared with printer costs........

Steve, that worked perfectly,thanks.
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Hi Steve, thanks for the reply. No, I know little about the tools and IE so will follow up your advice later or tomorrow and I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks again
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I use two computers one a desktop PC running on Windows 7 and the other a netbook with XP which allows me to work more comfortably in the lounge while watching TV. My problem is that while I can download any Census or similar image from Ancestry to the netbook and then into my DropBox FH multimedia ...