Family Historian User Group

jonno697 said: Is it possible to enter another column on this window which will show spouse name? Yes, indeed, but only one spouse per column so you might want to add more than one column. Here are the instructions from the Help file: Configuring Columns The columns in the Records Window are extrem...

Dagwood, You have hit the nail on the head! The fundamental questions are whether you are researching only your blood relatives/ancestors or all relatives and, if you are researching all relatives then, does this include only relatives by marriage? I have one quite distant relative by adoption (alth...

Just a thought but surely if I adopt a child I become a relative of future generations in the same way that a spouse becomes a relative (aunt/uncle/cousin as well as parent) through marriage? To my way of thinking you can become a relative through a legal process (such as a father-in-law, for exampl...

plantheaven said: I have downloaded the update and retried but the same error message comes up. I have no other backup system running and I am using Windows 7.   Getting desperate! I know this sounds terribly obvious but are you sure you have enough disk space for a full backup? To backup the compl...

Tree Searcher said: ... all I want to do is to record my research and print out reasonable reports for my family. .... Then probably all you need is FH5 (plus Ancestral Sources) as the facilities provided are more than adequate for your needs. I can't think that you would even need to carry out any...

tatewise said: I think I have fixed both those problems and Map Life Facts V3.0 is now available from the Plugin Store. Gerry, I am interested in what PC environment you are using. The background problem has never been mentioned before, and your button shapes have more rounded corners than on any o...

Jane said:
Mike, that looks like some sort of Mac window to me.

Indeed it is, Jane. I run Win XP under Parallels on my iMac. I also use a program which adds mac type buttons.

Gerry

Mike, Very useful plugin but I have two small problems. First, how do I change the window background to that shown in the Help file? Mine looks like this: http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/ScreenShot1.png And I notice that when typing in a location (in the box below 'click here to choose an entr...

rodders said: Hi All I've modified Jane's Add GRO Source plugin (with Jane's permission) to record the GRO 'source' data (Registration District and Reference Information) in the Event Note field, rather than creating a Source for it and recording the District in the Event Place field. .... This is ...

Unless you have evidence from a different source then you cannot be sure that other members of the family were present and living in the house at the same time as the birth. Indeed, I know from my own researches that one or sometimes more young children were often sent to live with relatives or even...

If you save the diagram as an image file (for example .jpg or .png) then it is easy to rotate it in something like Irfanview or Picasa. The image can then be inserted into the page you select.

Are you intending to get the book printed? If so, then the answer is to rotate the chart by 90 degrees.

This link worked for me:

http://www.family-historian.co.uk/pluginstore

Whilst waiting for V5 to arrive by post I have been browsing through the available plugins. Wow! you folk have been hard at work. I was somewhat amused by Jane's plugin 'Clean Living People' - How does it know? I'm sure some of my ancestors won't qualify! Seriously, many thanks to everyone - Simon f...

In the UK there is rarely just one person buried in the grave - many are made for three. A family might buy a plot for three family members (or a double plot for six, etc) but a person might be buried in a public plot where two other unrelated people may be buried. I have both situations. One except...

Steve Blackburn said: Well - if you plan to upgrade to version 5 you could also push the boat out and upgrade to windows 8 as well. Windows XP is what my ancestors used to use........ :-) As my computer is an iMac the only reason I run Windows is so that I can use FH and AS! Not incentive enough to...

HumScumDave said:
And, being slightly geeky, has it been written to take all the changes Windows 8 will introduce into account? In many ways, FH seems like the ideal Metro-style application.

I hope that doesn't mean it won't work with Windows XP!

I don't think changing the Fact sentence globally will change any facts that have already been created. Have you tried creating a new marriage record in AS to see if the correct sentence is created?

Where did you alter the sentence? If you altered it in the local record then it will only be changed in that record. To change it globally go to: Tools>Work with Fact Sets... Make sure you have selected in the Fact Set selector; find the Fact you want to change and click the Properties button. You c...

RSellens said:
Adobe Acrobat pro you just tell it to save as images in JPEG format

Richard

... a bit pricey, though! One web site has a price in excess of 400 UKP!

The Windows program 'PDF2JPG File Converter' which was recently made available in the downloads section is a nifty little program which is able to convert all the pages of a pdf file to jpg in one go. For those of you with Mac computers you can use the Preview application to convert one page at a ti...

Don't forget that Windows, Norton/Macafee and other programs may sometimes download updates etc in the background without giving any obvious indication of what is going on. Follow Jane's suggestion of using Task Manager to check what programs are running in the background.

Patience, patience! March still has 19 days to run!

jbrooks said: If I created a bap entry linked to parents would it then be okay to delete the born fact in FH? Why not make the birth fact 'before [baptism date]'. (e.g. if the baptism date was '2 Jun 1895' then the birth date would be 'bef 2 June 1895'.) That will always be correct. The Source for ...

tatewise said: To scan A3 copies it is often possible to scan each half of the document as A4, especially with a flat-bed scanner, with the lid open if necessary. ... A popular free image editor is IrfanView. ... or just photograph it. Put it on the floor in a well lit room and make sure there are ...