Family Historian User Group

Colin -- When hints work, they can be wonderful. I remember once when a brand new collection came online at Ancestry that I was unaware of (delayed birth records), and the hint alerted me that there were records for my family in that collection. It was great. Since then, Ancestry has changed the hin...

Randy Seaver posted an item on his blog Genea-Musings yesterday, FindMyPast Introduces Hints in Family Trees . The information about the beta Hints can be found here: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/hints In the comments, Phil Moir. the Technical Lead on the Findmypast Family Tree team adds: "I thought ...

I came along late to the party, so by the time I showed up, all was working (Firefox and W8.1). The lights look especially lovely this year with the new theme, and since I regularly operate with the sound off, I won't frighten the cat* by busting a bulb. Thanks, Jane! *As you can see from the avatar...

I agree with the writer of this blog post, who says: Plain text is your friend when moving your writing from one app to another. : Why Scrivener is every indie author’s very best friend I agree that for displaying information from census returns and the like, having table formatting is useful. Howev...

I don't make use of this feature, but if I recall correctly, the events which say "[name] experienced [event]" have a {label} as part of the sentence template which pulls in the name of the event.

Try editing the template to take out the {label} and put in your own verb, and see what happens.

As I said elsewhere -- if I had been able to choose which provider to get hints from, it would have been Find My Past. But really, the hints don't matter so much to me. More and more, I am not doing global searches for people to find out whatever I can find about someone. Most of the time, I am targ...

My history is incomplete (I forgot Ancestry's takeover of Rootsweb, which caused a lot of societies to pull their data off Rootsweb in protest. I also may have remembered some events out of order. Ancestry's own corporate timeline is here: http://corporate.ancestry.com/about-ancestry/company-info/co...

I got a location for a birthplace for "other" but the system was stumped by my test-GEDCOM, downloaded from Ancestry, which had a birth event with a place "Unknown Nativity". Or maybe I should say, it worked beautifully, not trying to place a pin when the birth place was unknown. At any rate, hiccup...

If you can talk to Ancestry's front-facing big names directly, they do get where you are coming from. I watch Crista Cowan's presentations directly and have said things about the deficiencies of the online tree system in the chat rooms. Crista has promised to pass them up the line to the people who ...

Thanks. I follow Clooz on Google+ and am signed up for the newsletter, so if Joe makes any comments to the userbase at large, I'll see them there. He's pretty good about announcing things, unlike some others (Calico Pie not included in that wisecrack). I'm re-thinking my workflow from scratch and ho...

I get the FHUG mailing list digest and saw Jane's post there. Reset my settings as advised, and I now see little clock icons in the spot where the hint icons appear in the screenshots. So it appears that things are working. ... and in the time it took me to write that paragraph, the little clocks ha...

Disclaimer: I've just upgraded to FH6 earlier today. I haven't noticed this problem until now, but it MAY have been there all along and I just didn't notice until now. I'm using today's release of FH6 as an excuse to start a new review cycle of my research by re-entering things in a fresh database i...

I had no trouble downloading, but couldn't get to the 'what's new' page for a couple of hours. It seems to be working again now: http://www.family-historian.co.uk/features/whats-new-in-version-6 I am impressed with the extended timeline features! I use an online tree on Ancestry as a sort of extende...

Mike -- just wanted to note that I have been trying to get to the "What's new" page and have had many failures. Part of the problem is that the announcement at Google+ from the Family Historian page has a link which is malformed. This is the text of the announcement, whose time-stamp appears to me a...

I have recently purchased Clooz, which is a source-based program not unlike Custodian. I wanted Clooz to help me keep track of the sources I had downloaded. The plan is to use Clooz as a master list of all the things I have collected, so they'll have a place to live until I can analyze the record, a...

Are there any screenshots of what the matches are supposed to look like, once we have them? I can't believe I am so interested in a function which will probably make me say, "YES, I already know about that!" over and over. But something may have turn up which I've overlooked. You never know. Oh, I j...

Well, I've done it. I bought and installed V6. Didn't even think of the problem with the plugins not being compatible! :shock: Now I am exploring things and discovering features that I know were also in the earlier versions but I had forgotten about. I think I need to start over and take a tour. :oo...

You can probably guess that I've just read Dick Eastman's column -- so I came here to ask who has used MyHeritage lately. Back in 2006 when I was first starting, I experimented with several sites and programs before settling on Family Historian. I found a cheap copy of FamilyTreeMaker and bought it ...

Thanks, Mike and Adrian.

tatewise wrote:You did not say how you coped with those two page Census Records.

For the census records, I was using Gedcom Census / Ancestral Sources and attached the files during data entry.

I found a probate file last night that contained several different packets of documents, perhaps 80 pages in all. I couldn't help thinking, as I was downloading them all and capturing the source citations from Family Search, what am I going to do once I put these into Family Historian? There is no w...

Maps have been available for years via at least two FH V5 Plugins . I don't mean to be dismissive of the Plugins! I've essentially been away from FH for the past couple of years, because of a hard disk crash, and because of work scheduling issues that prevented me from really getting up to speed on...

Usually I lag behind everyone else, but I find myself very excited about this new version.

Maps!

I'm just a dumb-end user, so what do I know, but -- I can't see why a standard for family history shouldn't support places the same way they do people. Theoretically speaking -- why can't our individual databases essentially be a subset of the kind of information found in A Vision of Britain Through...

I agree with the earlier suggestions that a Named List is Family Historian is useful. Other possibilities include -- Keeping candidates in a separate database Using a source-based program like Custodian or Clooz to store the records Keeping notes in a journal (I use Scrivener) I'm struggling with th...