Family Historian User Group

Hi All, One of my relatives has raised the sticky issue of internet 'identity theft'. He's thinking: 'Identity theft is an increasingly common phenomenon. Should I post my family tree on the internet if it includes mother's maiden names (a typical banking security question), dates of births, photos ...

Thank you, Shining Knights! I'll take on board all of this advice. As many will know, it's difficult fitting in a part-time (massive!) passion around the rest of one's life. Being so limited for time I devised this 'wonderful' strategy for methodically learning a new programme (instead of doing what...

So much to say but will try to be concise ... Firstly, I'd like to express a HUGE thank you to the Jane's, Chris's, Jon's and Jan's of this world who are giving freely of their time to help out the Joyaa's and other non-afficionados (spelling?) trying to get to grips with FH. It's not that I underst...

Jane, Chris: thank you both for your responses, which I have now had time to tuck into/try out etc.  Two questions arise: a) Chris, on sources: what do you mean by 'ATTACHING that source to the person in question'?  I can create a source with that person's name - is that what you mean, or is there a...

Hi Andy, Hi Everyone, You have my vote for this. But (someone:) I cannot locate Andy's idea on the wish list in order to vote for it - I found a 14-page wish list, I searched for 'short', and also for 'relation' but this wish item did not appear. What have I done wrong? Cheers Joyaa, Queensland,[cool]

Chris, thank you for what I believe are really sensible suggestions! I am having trouble getting the 'name used' field to appear in my diagrams (being new to this program). Diagram Options - yep; Text Schemes - yep; but then I notice that when I try to edit the NAME field, I am shown: '%INDI.NAME:FU...

Here's another point (all about geneatiquette again, and again it's probably been covered before, but I cannae find it): Sources, Maiden names, alternative names etc: when you are quoting an individual as a source for a piece of information, whaich name do you use? The main name as appears in the tr...

Thanks Chris - this seems to make sense. AND ... I'd be interested to hear from others who do this in a different way again - I'm brand new to FH and I'm interested to look at my options. Joyaa [cool] (wearing sunnies, even though it is night-time down-under!)

Thank you for that reply, Jane. I am studying your response and this is what I am thinking: 1. You use 'preferred name(s)' - so am I correct in thinking: 'Name Used' (detail tab)? 2. If 'Mary Margaret B' 'prefers' 'Polly', when might you the nickname field - i.e. it sounds to me that you're using 'N...

This has probably been covered before, but since I cannot find any reference to it, here we go: 1. Preferred names: My Dad is Abraham David Shaw. He never uses Abraham, so I decided to parenthesise his 1st name instead of using the 'preferred name field: (Abraham) David Shaw. That way people can see...