Family Historian User Group

Sorry, I do get a bit carried away. Comes from touch typing which means that I type as I think!!!! [grin][grin][smile]

I've traced my own personal branch back to 1709. This is via a combination of other people's research which included parish registers and my own (internet only for now) researches. I've researched my family name back to some references in 1435 but it gets a bit vague as to the accuracy of the data. ...

Reply to Simon. Looking back I can see that saying it's a bit buggy on the UI is a tad serious, but I was writing a short comment. If I wanted to be verbose I would have described the situation in a more details explaining why. However better terms would be 'some failings in the UI' as there are bit...

Not quite. Rather than put each attribute of the person into seperate Seamans Tickets (which is what I think you're describing - kick me if I'm wrong [tongue]), just have one ticket with all the attributes of the person described in it. So what Jane is saying is that you end up with 'He was 6ft tall...

Posting at the same time! [smile] One way I get my documents into Adobe format is to use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. It's very similar to MS Office plus it's free (or cheap , and it has the capability to export documents in PDF format. Other methods include various utilities and sharewar...

What kind of format are you wanting to get in your RTF file? Are you wanting raw data, or just a report with minimal narrative text? To get minimal text, use the Record details reports (Reports->Record Detail reports->Record Detail - Individual), then save the report as an RTF file. To get closer to...

Why choose FH? Because it had very good diagrams and charts, the main reason I bought it. It was good value for money with no useless bumpf. Clean and simple UI with a variety of methods of accessing the data. It's British so support should be good (which it is). This user group. Favourite bits? The...

We'll just have to agree to disagree. [smile]

I wasn't trying to be insulting about the testing bit (the smilies where deliberate), just from my experience not many programmers are keen on it because of they want to do the nice stuff of writing new code. I too like you have gone through various formal methods of testing. I just wasn't aware how...

The only problem about keeping umpteen number of backups is keeping track of what you did between each backup. It also depends on how often you backup, after every run of the program, every day, every week. After only a few backups it's hard to remember what you did. You learn quickly if you have a ...

I would like FH to use set phrases in death dates to support occasions when an event is known but no details exist. The phrases are DEAD or DECEASED. Validation would check that they only occur in the death date field. The phrases would be useful for people who were born within the last 100 years an...

I just create a father using just the surname of the siblings. There is no real need to create a mother. The father is just called '/Surname/', ie. with no given names.

I agree, the note is connected with the photo, and I use it to store information about the photo's contents. But the thing about this note is that it for that instance of the photo. If I use the photo more than once I've got to edit the note each time. In the meantime I've decided to create another ...

Yes, you're right. I remember my mum when she first started to use a mouse! Though users do quickly learn how to use a mouse. An option is the way to go. Holding down a key whilst doing a drag and drop is counterproductive. As for the undo, that another issue for me too, but thats for another time/m...

It's a workaround, but a note field can be used to hold anything, and in my case it's about the contents of the photo, who is in it, where it was taken, etc. Sources are good because they only occur once rather than many times. Though I could get round this with another workaround by creating a note...

Powerpoint can import many types of graphic files. JPG or PNG are probably the best. If your Powerpoint doesn't offer graphic file types such as JPG or PNG in the File Open dialog when you select Insert->Picture->From file then you might need to install the extra components from the Microsoft Office...

As I gather together photos I find it useful to record where I got the photo from. I have to record this by having the photo in different directories. It would be nice if the multi-media record allowed a source to be attached to it. Then it could be printed out in reports. The Gedcom standard doesn'...

When using the Data Reference Assistant it alwasy starts at the top. When you've selected a field and placed it in the expression, if you want to edit the expression you have to start at the very beginning. It would be better, and more helpful if the DRA opened up where the current experssion expand...

I would like to see drag and drop implemented in FH. This would be allowed in all places where you can currently copy/paste or where records are moved around. For instance if you've selected a record you can press the button that looks like 'Play' to copy it to a named list. It should be possible to...

When you run a query with parameters FH forces you to enter details for the parameters. So if you have a query that checks first and middle initials, but you only want to check for the first initial you can't. You have to create a seperate query for each possible combination of optional parameters. ...

If the files are to be available to all users of a PC then the correct place to store them is in the 'All UsersShared Documents' folder, the equivalent to 'My Documents'. By default this could be a sub-directory called 'My Family', following the covention in WinXP to label everything 'My something'....

When you are in the All tab or the Record window, you can press Delete to delete a field (or fields). A natural progression of this is to allow the Ins key to insert a field. It won't be possible to know which field to add, so FH will have to display the context menu available with a right click but...

As I said, the Split Tree Helper Function does the job, but in a very awkward manner. If I'm going to be sending a Gedcom to someone as a one off - to save my current file, then strip the information out, then remember to switch back to my main file is a real pain. Not forgetting that when you switc...

First off, I realise that the Split Tree Helper function is available, but the current method is clunky, long winded, you need to remember various steps, is unnecessarily complicated, and not intutitive. Especially when you would just like to export a small selection of records as a one off for some...

The ones under Program Files can be changed but I suspect that there is no guarantee that they won't be changed by a program upgrade. The ones in Document and SettingsAll Users are the custom ones. The queries etc in in Document and Settings'myself'My Family Tree do not exist. [rolleyes] The files i...