Family Historian User Group

David, in FH V6, virtually all customisations are global. They affect all Projects on the PC in the same way. That goes for Report Types, Diagram Types, Text Schemes, Queries, Fact Sets, Plugins, Flags, Icons, etc, etc... Thanks for both the reference and the confirmation, I think I may have got mi...

One is 64. .. Many of us are 64. It isn't a handicap... Oh I don't know, when I turned 60 it was if some malevolent being flicked a switch and "made me old". I think being "of an age" is a disability when it comes to the urgency with which the (UK) health service is willing to address issues. Being...

Replying with thoughts triggered by some of the responses so far. Diagram Types These I have never found myself using - but they may be a means to manage settings across projects or diagrams within a project. Hierarchies I think I am still struggling for clarity with the existing Hierarchies. If I g...

This is not yet a fully formed "Request", but I hope with assistance that we can knock it into shape. I am getting increasingly frustrated with Fact Sets, Text Schemes and Hierarchies. I am currently on V6, but I have not read anything that makes me thing that V7 is any better; perhaps V8 or 7.x eve...

Hello, a silly question from an newbie please: how many photos does everyone typically add to each person and how do you decide which ones to include? Also, Is there a limit to how much media can be added in total? Thank you If a "very newbie" to both FH and Genealogy Software you may not have real...

Although of course once you have attached a media file to a media record, the name of the file is pretty well irrelevant because the title of the media record can be descriptive in the user's chosen format? Leaving the names "as downloaded" will for some online databases (eg. FMP) mean that if you t...

Very rarely is the actual "age at Burial" known - the grave stone may give an age at Death - and in practice burial usually happened fairly quickly afterwards.

Death is possibly the last moment at which we can be said to have an age - "the dead shall grow not old"?

Stepping into a minefield? If "John" becomes "Jane", surely the Gender Reassignment sentence has to say either "His gender was reassigned" (to presumably female) or "She acquired the feminine gender" (or better words to that effect). "Her gender was reassigned" would imply to me that at birth her as...

I have a couple of certificates from the Caxton Registration District, and that is in the “Counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon”. Might that have been a poor guess at the new name after 1974 for what was eventually just called Cambridgeshire ? Per the inevitable Wikipedia (not very well sourced/ref...

The majority of Rowledge falls within Surrey, its postal address is ‘Rowledge, Farnham’ and the whole village has a Surrey Postcode. But the village and ecclesiastical parish (created in the 19th century, so relatively new in UK terms) straddle the Surrey-Hampshire border. This is one of the places...

Ah, the problems of how "Officialdom" Administratively (in its multitude of flavours) divides up the country - presumably so they can "geo-code" in their own way! When my father died, the registrar asked where he was born. I replied "92 Finchley Road, Hampstead" ("Hampstead in the County of London" ...

As a lumper the Census reference (e.g. where within the 1861 Census did I find the data?) goes in the "Where within Source" (V6) field - "RG09; Piece: 3929; Folio: 22; Page: 19;". I could add the schedule number to make it individual specific, but don't. When adding media, the filename comes across ...

In Libre Office when I do a CSV import I get the following options (and result)
Note the text delimiter setting (highlighted).

If a child is the youngest of 10 siblings, and you identify sibling births and deaths, you get a lot of lines of data that look a bit strange (Age -18) Is the problem actually misnaming the column? It's not "Age of Individual" but "YoB+/-"? If you have timeline facts "on", it might be useful if the...

An amazing number of fields support a local Note which does offer [[privacy]] brackets. So if the selection dialogue displays those local Note fields where appropriate that may offer a solution now, whereas waiting for a feature like {{brackets}} may take a long time. Fields that support a local No...

This post does highlight a common problem in selecting names (often via the select dialogue). The name is rarely enough - an informal qualifier is often useful - but ideally without "misusing fields". You can: filter by date (if known) click on the expand "icon" scroll horizontally to see other colu...

I've come across an unidentified picture of what I have to assume is a family group of husband and wife, 2 daughters and 2 sons. My family members have no clue who they might be. Or a family of 2 parents and 2 children plus visiting cousins (or variations)? Is there anyway from the photo that you c...

... For example: I could be reading a book about the work on the atomic bomb, and within the book I find a reference to a cousin of my father. That book is still the source of that fact, “Worked on the Manhattan Project”, even though the title of the book, the publisher, etc contain nothing relatin...

I have been pondering ... (always a dodgy thing to do when not adequately caffeinated) I'm a lumper and also someone who uses FH not to directly "create output" (CDs Books etc.) but as a repository of "facts" about people that I draw on when "word-processing Family History". I'm also on V6 - where I...

although the various providers seem a touch inconsistent in their naming of what a "collection" is. Collection? Dataset? etc. If by this you mean the sort of "meta-collections" that FMP are creating; they are a PITA! I think "Yorkshire Marriages" is a good example - you have to be very careful to c...

I think the difference between Splitters and Lumpers came from genealogy being done on paper before computers took over. Splitting seams to be the best fit for paper genealogy and lumping for computers. Strange I had always thought the reverse! Pre computers/internet when you looked something up an...

Marriages could have all sorts of statuses, regular and irregular. What to make of a Probated Will stating: This is the last Will and Testament of me Elizabeth F commonly called Elizabeth P the reputed Wife of John P ... Whereas by the Will of my Mother Mary F ... she directed that her unmarried Dau...

Relying on the position of spaces commas and other punctuation, and expecting others to understand your conventions is madness. IMO;!, , I think Mike must have been writing tongue in cheek! I would prefer to differentiate by means of box bracketed comments which to many is an indication of a presen...

PS I wouldn't be me if I didn't remind people that there is no such thing as a Common Law Husband / Wife / Marriage in England & Wales. But that's probably why you put it in quotes, David. I think Scotland actually came close to it with the irregular marriage form, "Marriage By Repute". But you'd n...

Firstly, philosophically, for me the events, attributes, etc, stored in FH, ought to be fit for output now in (usually narrative) reports, etc., if someone asks for such. I take on all the strictures about the unnatural nature of generated text, etc. But I don't have time to concoct "proper" narrat...