Family Historian User Group

Thank you so much Tatewise. That is so helpful. As Im not too sure about the recipients XP settings I will tell him just to use the start button if it doesnt run automatically. Thankyyou for the tip about the USB pen, I hadnt thought of that, that is really useful and I will also have a look at the ...

Thank you Peter, in fact I had done as Tatewise suggested and that works fine, but I will tinker with it to get the colours that look right One other thing about the pop ups though I wonder if someone could answer. Having burned a draft onto CD, can you tell me how I get the pop ups to be a readable...

Thanks Tatewise for all your help. I will give it a go re the fonts
Cheers
Jackie

I love the pop up version of the pictures when you create a CD but I wonder is there any way of putting the pictures under the text on the CDs rather than on the right hand side. I see you can put them above and on the right, but there doesnt seem to be any provision to put them under the text. Am I...

Thank you everyone for your replies, I will have a tinker around and see which one comes up with the easiest result

Many thanks again
Jackie[smile]

I am planning to visit Devon in the next couple of months to do a bit of FH research mainly around graveyards and villages. Can someone tell me if there is a way of extracting information as a printed list from my V4 FH to tell me which people were living where and when in the various villages I pla...

Thank you both Tatewise and Jane, I will try both of those
Many thanks
Jackie

Thanks Peter, I wondered if I was missing something somewhere but maybe there isnt a solution apart from changing his main name to aka...

How do I get the report to show an alias name please? I have a James Evans also known as James Beckley I have added the name James Beckley in the alternate names titles, but it is not showing up anywhere in the Narrative report. There doesnt seem to be a box to tick to show secondary names when crea...

Thank you Nick and Tatewise. Yes 1001 seems a good idea. I didnt know about the Source Type, that is worth a try. Many thanks to you both, I will give it a whirl
Best wishes
Jackie

No Tatewise that is exactly what I am doing. So my source numbering goes, for example, 0001 John Smith 1911 Census; 0002 John Smith 1901 Census; 0003 John Smith 1891 Census etc. and then I attach a copy of the Census to both the persons mentioned and to the Source number/description. I find that whe...

Hi all I am trying to avoid a problem arising later when I try to merge two trees. I have recently done a friends tree for her and now her husband has asked me to do his. I was just going to add his details to her tree and make it a joint tree, but the family want to be able to share their own trees...

Thanks Jane and Tatewise, Tatewise that link says exactly what is happening on her computer, Internet Explorer is just closing silently on opening without any error message as she is using Vista. I wlll get her to try the methods suggested. I do not have Protected mode enabled on my computer, but I ...

I created a Family History CD for my friend with all her ancestors etc. It was created on Windows 7 but I also ran it through on my old Vista machine before giving it to her and it opened ok on that. However in both cases after clicking the blue FH icon Runstart.exe to run the disc I get a warning c...

Thanks for the replies. In the end, I just added it seperatly. Also as I dont know what system my friend is using on her computer this seemed the easiest option, but it would be nice if FH could have the facility to incorporate documents easily.

Thanks again Tatewise. Sounds a bit complicated to me. Guess I will just copy the PDFs seperatly
Cheers
Jackie

Many thanks Tatewise, that's sorted it

Could I just ask though, is there any way of linking PDF files direct to the individual in the CD. For example I have some military and pension records which relate to only one individual. Or is the only way to put it on seperately?
Thanks
Jackie

I am just creating my first CD. I think I have got the pages sorted alright, but what I want to know is how to make the images/sources readable. They are really small when they are linked automatically. I see that I can enter each picture of each Census etc individually and these seem to come up cle...

Thank you Jane[grin]

I want to put a copy of FH and my project onto a new Windows 7 computer. Do I use a USB stick to copy the project files onto and then just copy over or do I use the import command to get the files in the right place. I have alot of multimedia files and dont want to lose the links Words of one syllab...

Thank you very much Peter that is brilliant. So helpful

Many thanks
Jackie

I wonder if anyone could tell me how to set up a custom event for someone I have found who is a missionary and is travelling backwards and forwards into the UK. I want to say that this person travelled to Ceylon on X boat on the (date). I am not good at figuring out how to custom such things so if a...

Thanks Peter. I was using a 'source of a place' as a link but then wondered if there was a better way of dealing with them
Many thanks
Jackie

Where and how do people add general information and pictures about places your ancestors lived? Do you attach it to a Census reference or set up a seperate entry of some description?
I am struggling to see how best this is done on FH
Thanks for any tips
Jackie

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Ahh thank you very much Patrick. I thought I was doing something wrong!!
Jackie