Family Historian User Group

I wanted to create a 'semi intelligent' PDF which allows me to quickly browse to each record/person from any other record/page this record/person is mentioned. I'm currently looking on how to provide relatives with an easy to be used document so that these could help me collecting data to some perso...

unsure if textmarks is the correct word, nor if it's hypelinks. Not using an english word. What I', looking for is a way to bring back intelligence to reports (6x3 record card alike ones) so that I could press CTRL on a name (child) for example and end up at the page where the child is the root. I k...

Hi Jane, nice idea, what I wanted to do is the following. I got lots of individuals with an identical surname from the same small town, and what's missing in FH is some sort of a timeline diagram showing selected records below each other with the horizontal dimension being the timeline. I do rememeb...

Anyone with an idea if it's possible to do an everyonediagram based upon a filter which defines a subset of individuals ? For example 'everyone' linked to records which match surname 'xxxx' ? Or 'everyone' linked to source '123' ? I tried with a query links to source and then selected the result but...

Brilliant idea to only do it for the ones where a spouse pic does exist.
Wonder why always the more complicated solution springs to my mind

thanks a lot ...

Is there an easy way to ommit having a spouse picture being shown in the child section of a family page in case the child got no pic at all ? Looks pretty strange if it says: Child Maria followed by a pic showing a male. That the pic contains the note Spouse named Wilhelm doesn't help much. But of c...

I did it that way, actually .. eg. using DEL ENTER DEL ENTER DEL ENTER DEL ENTER and I did wonder what gets broken first. The fingers or the keyboard

Yep, both machines are sort of equal, apart from mine being equipped with all sorts of hotfixes whereas my fathers likely is somewhat outdated. Not to mention that my sisters spouse did install some strange firewall software I'm unused to. Well not a real problem. But something matching the subject ...

Just did a test with only 50 individuals. And used installation settings again. And it worked. Bet I must have ticked / unticked something else. Wonder what has caused the problem. But I got a complete CD burned yesterday which had that problem on all persons with multiple given names. Seems as if u...

Well using the standard work, but all names such as Anna Elisabeth Someone or Maria Magdalena Anyone show up as Anna Someone and Maria Anyone. whereas if I use my own NAME field declaration the names work but the links to the sources are lost. And since 60-70% of my collection does have multiple giv...

Assuming Jane might know the answer ;-) Following problem. I need to hide the NAME entry from the wizzard stage where I need to define the Family Group Sheet and the Individual Summary Report since I have to replace it by Name %INDI.NAME[1]:GIVEN_ALL% %INDI.NAME[1]:SURNAME% all show even if emtpy, s...

thanks, that works ... must get more used to working with lists I'd say.

Needed to re-think my strategy on how to name and set up my source documents. Now to not get it all mixed up I descided to remove all sources and multimedia objects within FH and add them the new way I wanted them to be. So I selected the relevant sources opened the context menu awaiting to see an e...

@PatrikT >It's probably because Vendemiaire was the first month in the French Revolutionary calendar Yep, you're right as long as you define dates within the first year only. Wikipedia tells the following: It started 1789 This first years was 5 1/2 months in length only, since Jan 1st 1790 was day o...

Thanks Jane got that .... works as designed. While at dates .... why does FH display [F] 13.1.0012 when entering a french date being 13.vendemaire of year 12 ? As far as I know vendemaire is september thus it's month 9 not 1. Any idea if that's bug, or does FH count the months in a way that january ...

Hi Jane, played with the new EstimatedAgeAt function. But it suffers the very same problem the solution below runs into. Iused =AgeAt(%INDI.~FATH>%,%INDI.BIRT.DATE%) =AgeAt(%INDI.~MOTH>%,%INDI.BIRT.DATE%) =AgeAt(%INDI.~FATH>%,%INDI.FAMS>MARR.DATE%) =AgeAt(%INDI.~MOTH>%,%INDI.FAMS>MARR.DATE%) to get ...

Likely was asked before, but I wasn't able to locate the thread in here. Referring to the help in section 'understanding functions' is says. > Functions and other expressions can be used in Queries, Diagrams and Reports. somwhere else it says > e.g. ['...') .... you cannot however do this in diagram...

Yes a pretty visible explanation of the problem indeed. But it should have been far easier. Assume FH would have shown a branch expansion knob at the top of Jean's box, since FH is aware that the data for her parents are in the GEDCOM database. All what's needed is 'expand 1 level', and I bet that F...

Sort of a complexed problem I wonder on how to file a wish list request since I can't easily put it into 2 sentences. Perhaps Jane could think of a short summary ? [smile] Smallest desciption: Spousebox movement in diagram shouldn't affect descendantbox movement. Ok, problem goes like this. I got a ...

I'd love to se support for the 'high level entity location' allowing to have location records able to contain coordinates, multimedia, territory, state, demographical and administrative dats per place. Able to be linked to individuals instead of having to define this data in each individual record. ...

I'd love to see sort of a identifier for text shemes so one's able to define columns for textboxes. The other way would be to define that a diagrambox is build out of sub-boxes. So that the user is able to define the number of boxes following the current way diagramboxes are defined. Benefit, if one...

@kerrychris: Could be done using a custom attribute and a small util which reads in a txt report from FH containing only Ahnentafelnumbers and record IDs. Shouldn't be such a trick to do that in VBscript or even VB (I could surely make such a thing the upcoming weekend) But I have some heavy concirn...

more interesting to me is ... how to get rid of attributes ? I did a quick test with attributes _TEST1, _TEST2 to see what one could do with them. Works ok. Then I deleted these from the testperson ... but within the menu these _TEST1, and _TEST2 attributes still show up which is nice if being used ...

Damn ... I think I was up for too long yesterday night. I already did browse the 'Application Data' directory .. but the one for my personal user only without thinking about the 'all users'. Problem solved ;-) thanks for the hint When I get it right FH never ever does use the templates from the prog...

I was playing with text schemes last night and against trying to double-click to load them as a custom scheme I placed them into the Text Schemes folder. They were even recognised. Now I deleted some (from within Windows since I was unable to see a delete button within FH) but FH still shows them in...