Family Historian User Group

I save all the media I intend to use, in FH7. into my "C" drive and then load it into FH as required and backup my project including media on a periodic basis. If you mean that you allow FH to copy the media files into the Media folder of your project, which is then backed up, any changes to the or...

1. I would create a custom fact. I would create it as an attribute (not an event) so that it has a value field in which to record the orientation. 2. There is a standard Physical Description fact which might serve the purpose. 3. I would create a custom fact. This could be an event, where the date f...

it always surprises me that I have to do another stage to get to actually editing Most fields in the Place record can be edited directly in Place Record’s Property box or the View/Edit Place Details dialogue box. It is only the Place name field itself which requires the extra step. This is because ...

13/02/2010 was the Date Modified before the files were re-saved. 19/09/2019 was the Date Created. 05/02/2023 was the Date Modified after the files were re-saved. The general ‘Date’ column evidently displays whichever is the earlier for each file. Hence before the re-save it was showing 2010 (the ori...

To preserve your first chart, use Diagram > Save Diagram As > Family Historian Chart and give it an appropriate name. To create a new chart based on the first, save the same chart again with a different name. You can then modify the second one without losing the first. Saved charts can be accessed f...

Update: I decided to re-save the TIF files which had been picked up by the plugin, and also identify any others which might have the same issue but were not reported by the plugin because they don't have frame links in FH. The vast majority, though not quite all, of the files had a time stamp of 13/...

So I simply saved the file over itself and chose the same compression option. None of its characteristics seemed to change but it now does not produce the error! How peculiar! I know I can ignore those error messages from the plugin but I suppose it might be worth re-saving all of the 'problem' fil...

I have just realised that the newer files would have been downloaded as JPG files, but I edited them (to straighten or trim them) and then saved them as TIFs. These are the files that are OK. However I can't remember whether the older files were downloaded as TIFs. I think they may have been.

Adrian: Yes, the Media record file format matches the actual file format. Curiously, if I change the actual file format to JPG exactly the same problem is exhibited!

Mike: Yes, the files all open OK in image editors and internally in FH. I have been trying to find what the 'problem' files have in common. They were all downloaded from ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, and the ones causing the problem are older ones. More recent images from ScotlandsPeople are OK, as are ot...

When I run the Show Project Statistics plugin it reports a number of Unusual Multimedia Frame : Area errors. A few of these are cases where the frame link has accidentally extended beyond the edge of the image. These are easily corrected. However there are many others where there is no obvious probl...

A fourth option is to use =ContainsText(%INDI.DEAT.SOUR>_TYPE%,"Death",STD)

Why don't you just cite what you use? The databases may be "copies" of one another, but it's impossible to know if they are identical. It won't cause FH any problems to have multiple copies of a same-name database for different repositories. The point is that the transcriptions are shared. When one...

Tools >Preferences > Media offers offers options to Autogenerate Keywords and Copy Image Tag Values to the Media Record.
This is from the FH Help files:

I'm glad it's working now. I got confused myself when I realised that it was repeating the marriage details for the main couple, when those details are already in the very top section of the report. I don't think it's possible to avoid that duplication if you want the children's marriage details to ...

Whoops, sorry that just repeats the marriage details for the main family members (the husband or wife). (The marriage for the main couple is already shown in the summary at the top so it doesn't need to be repeated for each of them in their own sections.) I thought I had once managed to get the marr...

To add the marriage details for a child, use Options> Contents tab >Family Member Main Items. Then click Add, enter 'Marriage' in the label field and %INDI.FAMS[1]>MARR[1]% in the Data Ref field. Probably too much to think about but is it possible to add the spouse name to the children of the child ...

Ah! I think it's because you are using a 'surname only' column to select the individual. Although that opens the Property box for the individual it doesn't actively select the individual record for other purposes such as Focus or key Diagrams. If you add an extra column using %INDI% (default display...

Let's hope that is the explanation for rfj1001 's problem. The original post said the problem occurred when clicking on a person (i.e. an Individual record?) in the query, but that shouldn't disable the Focus or key Diagram options unless there is some other cause we haven't found. Anyway, the Go to...

I have just found a possible cause. I have Tools > Preferences > Diagrams > Enable One-Click Diagram Display from Toolbar ticked. If I disable that option I get the same result as you. I can't think why that should make any difference, but it does! Why has your screenshot got no Focus Window icon ab...

Mike, here is an example (FH Sample project, Age at Death query)

Contrary to what Lorna says, I don't believe the Chart options are greyed out when a Fact is selected. Mike, there is an option to display the four key diagram types in the main toolbar, as they always were before V7. (Tools > Preferences > Display > Include Key Diagrams on Main Toolbar). Many user...

Do you mean the Property Box (not the record window) opens OK? If you have clicked on the individual’s name in the query results the Property Box for that person will open and the Focus and Chart options should all be enabled. However if you click on another of the fields in the query results, the P...

#1: Yes, you can opt to “Proceed anyway” and add a frame link to a individual if the media is already linked to them. Frame links can appear in FH-generated reports and you can take advantage of the ability to use different captions for the two links if they are included in reports. Either in the Li...

Why does the addif get new records where the exclude only works on the previous statements exclude? What else could they do? Each filter either adds (new records) to the existing results set or excludes some records which are already there. The special case is the very first filter, where if the fi...