Family Historian User Group

Thank you for this advice Jane. It's not quite what I had in mind, but it's set me off on a new train of thought. I'm fairly new to the program and hadn't looked at the Query section at all until prompted by your reply. Now I'm well into it, so thanks again.

Thanks for this Mike. Now I put it into diagram form I can see you are quite right. I was miscounting the number of generations separating the common ancestor from the cousin; I was assuming them to be two generations apart (which in one sense they are - grandparent/grandson) instead of counting onl...

It doesn't take much for me to get baffled by what complicated relationship terms actually mean. My starting point is the section in Herber's 'Ancestral Trails' where he explains how to calculate them. I'm working on a history project centred on a nineteenth century relative. Our common ancestor is ...

I doubt if this can be programmed but it's worth asking. I make great use of the All Relations diagram to map a very large family database. Frequently I need to trace the connections between individuals who are distantly related. This is possible within the existing structure only (I think) by 'manu...

Many thanks for this, and you are quite right. It wasn't anything multimedia because the cousins didn't have photos either, but they DID each have a brief text note. When I enter a note against my children's record they now show as individuals in the correct generation. I'm grateful Jane, thanks aga...

In producing a narrative report showing descendants, my children are omitted from their correct generation. They are listed as children of myself and my wife in our generation, but don't appear as individuals in the next generation, where they belong. Their cousins appear correctly, both as children...