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Alternatively display a diagram which includes all of the individuals that you want, select those individuals (with judicious use of the Ctrl key you can select multiple groups by just "drawing" a box around the group, and also add individuals to the selection) then via Edit....Add to Named List... ...

I "think" that the settings are common to all projects for the same user account on a PC, but some might be different if you have more than one user account. Assuming that all our your projects are under your user login account then you only need to save them once, but maybe best to wait for Mike to...

Having installed the plugin you then run it from within FH. So open FH with your project then Menu....Tools....Plugins then select that plugin from the list and click Run at bottom left of the Plugins window. Follow the instructions. Don't forget to open the Options tab and set where you want the ba...

Jane, Mike suggested that I should post this here (ref ): 14691|creating a file for Ancestry with no facts for living individuals Not sure if it's best here or in a separate post, but for any new version of Jane's Clean Living People plugin can I add my request for an option(s) to be able to retain ...

Not sure if it's best here or in a separate post, but for any new version of Jane's Clean Living People plugin can I add my request for an option(s) to be able to retain individual primary full name , and year of birth and marriage, but remove everything else for living people, (including source rec...

Modifying a GEDCOM with Word is not a good idea . Even as a text (.txt) file Word has been known to add extraneous information into the file when you save it, possibly making it invalid as a GEDCOM. Use a text editor such as Windows Notepad, or if you want more advanced search and replace functions ...

Hi Bill,
Many thanks for uploading all of this. I've now downloaded all of the items and will take a close look to see if/how I can use or adapt this to achieve what I want for an Ancestry upload.
Best Wishes, David

Yes indeed, keep it all in one project. It was mainly because of that, that I discovered that my son and his wife shared the same ancestors 6 and 5 generations back respectively. Quite a shock all round that was!

@Bill,
When you have finally got this working to your satisfaction I'll be really interested to see your process description. It sounds like a total nightmare to achieve what one would imagine to be a simple result.

I think that many (or even most) Family Historian (FH) users on here keep their master tree on their computer with FH, and then every so often export it to Ancestry to take advantage of the Hints features on there. FH is much more versatile in terms of the data that can be recorded, the way that dat...

Could you use the Change Any Fact Tag plugin to change those to regular Birth Facts? Maybe experiment of a copy of your project to see the results.
http://www.family-historian.co.uk/plugi ... try?id=172

Note quite the same but I have two friends (from schooldays) who married, divorced, then remarried (in church) 40 years later.

One of the files being accessed by another background task maybe (AV, backup, syncing to cloud........)?

As a long time user of Res Privata I would like an option to keep the living individuals Name and Year of birth and marriage (if applicable), and remove everything else including all other facts, citations, sources*, and notes (all of them). *not sure about what to do with a source for a living pers...

I'm also struggling a bit to get a satisfactory export GED for Ancestry, and been playing around with File...Import/Export...Export GED, Clean Living People plugin, Export Gedcom File plugin, and Res Privata without success. I have noted that none of these seem to remove Notes from Family records - ...

I find that the easiest way is to take a copy of one of the standard FH icon .bmp files (C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Icons ), open it with a picture editor and modify it to suit. You can use the Paint program that comes with Windows, or an editor of your own choice, and best to keep a...

Could that filename have caused the overall path length limit in Windows to have been exceeded? I can't remember what the limit is, but I'm sure that someone will know? What happens if you just replace the name (and extension) of the offending file to something very short (just as a test)? I say rep...

Or just use a photo editing program to create a cropped version of the certificate image (or a generic image to represent a certificate - after all, it's not going to be legible on the diagram anyway). There are free programs around that will let you do simple things like that. Of course you can sti...

Related to FamilySearch the following two website may be of use if you want to search all of the entries in a particular batch, the batch being a type of record (eg. baptism, marriage), for a particular place (eg. parish, village) and for a given period (eg. 1833-1886). http://www.archersoftware.co....

Are you aware that you can set a flag on several individuals simultaneously? Just select them all in the Records window then use Edit>Record Flags. Alternatively add them to a Named List then use Tools>Named Lists and Flag s to set the flag on all members of your chosen list. My main use of the Edi...

Or - in the media window use the up and down arrows (to the right of the Add Media button) to rearrange the Preference Order (see also the Preference column in the pane above the media display ). Useful if you don't have a date for the media item, or the date doesn't put the desired media item as hi...

Is there any way of lifting that filter in FH? So the default situation is to have the complete list? Just to the right of the filter boxes is a button called Clear , just click that and the filter is removed. If necessary then click the Individual Records column heading to resort the list by surna...

Ah, I see now :idea: :idea: What had confused me was "For the Multimedia Records option select Use Full File Paths for External File Links such that the Media folder & file paths are retained." in the KB page, and then looking in the exported GED and seeing the complete absolute path eg: 1 FILE D:\_...

Just some follow up now that I've achieved what I wanted. The relative I was sending the sub-tree to uses FH6, hence wanting to send him a project (not just a ged file), complete with all the media files just for that project (and not any customisations). Having gotten to the point as described in m...

I'm attempting to create a sub tree to send to a relative. I have: made copy of main project in the copy of project created named list of people I want to keep set split tree helper to: delete individuals not found by individual query delete notes, multimedia and source records with no links them ru...