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You won't need to re-enter any of the census information, it it just a question of finding out why those particular images ar not displaying correctly. I don't think FH can display djvu files directly but if you have an appropriate viewer installed you should be able to click on the triangle symbol ...

This occurs if, for one reason or another, the spouses are not displayed in chronological order in the diagram. The following extract from the Help files explains: Spouse numbering.JPG The option to Number out-of-sequence spouses (or not) is in Diagram Options on the General tab, near the lower left...

Welcome to the world of Family Historian. FH can indeed handle places and addresses in the way you want. Just use Tools > Work with Data > Places and Tools > Work with Data > Addresses to view all your places and addreses. Comma-separated parts are displayed in columns which can be sorted by clickin...

In FH, when the Printer Name is Family Historian PDF , click the Properties button, and select the About tab. Please report which Version and Build number is installed. As I said in my previous post, the version in the Printer Name list is 7.7 (I omitted to say build number 387), as expected. I wil...

Mike, For your information this is what I have listed under Control Panel > Programs & Features: FH PDF printers.JPG I suspect this is also what jsphillips is seeing. I note that there is no size in MB next to the 6.1 version. I have definitely never purchased a regular NovaPDF licence, so the 6.1 v...

The most significant aspects of my proposals are: (1) Captions are always composed using the same rules regardless of media type (JPG, PDF, DOC, etc). (2) Only if Use Note as Caption is ticked does the Note Caption text replace the default caption. Yes, I agree with those suggestions. My thoughts o...

Yes Mike, I agree with this suggestion. I had been wondering whether to raise a Wish List request for more consistency in the thumbnail captions. I imagine that the reason the Note as Caption appears only in the Individual Property box but not in other types of Property box is that it was originally...

The text displayed below a Media thumbnail depends on which Property Box the Multimedia tab belongs to:- In an Individual Property Box the text is the Date & age (plus the Note as Caption for images only). In a Family Property Box or Source Property Box the text is the Multimedia Record Title . In ...

David, I assume from what you say that the Title of the multimedia item is not sufficient to make it clear whether it relates to a baptism, marriage or death? I can see that this might be the case for older parish records, in which baptims, marriages and deaths were all recorded in the same register...

The Use Note as Caption option is used to generate captions for pictures when they are displayed in reports. The important word here is 'pictures', in other words any multimedia which are in image format such as JPG, TIF, etc. Multimedia which are in Word or PDF format are not image files and are no...

I seem to have sparked a very technical discussion here! I can follow the general principles you are both talking about, and the bottom line seems to be that there is a delayed-reaction bug in FH after the cloning has taken place. Whether this is because FH tries to fix a problem but doesn't fix it ...

Wow! No wonder the explanation eluded me. Thanks for looking into this, Mike, with your usual expertise. As I said in my original post, it is not likley to be a nuisance because I won't normally be cloning a record with multimedia already linked. I am reassured to find that I was not imagining the '...

Have you tried viewing the Multimedia record itself in the Multimedia window, after cloning the Source record? It seems crazy but it is only then that the problem becomes apparent. If I click on each of the Linked Records in turn in the panel in the lower left of the MM window, a rectangle appears a...

I have recently started using the Clone Any Record plugin and find it very useful for creating a set of similar Source Records. Thank you Peter for providing this plugin. I normally use a template Source Record with some fields left blank and without any linked multimedia. However I noticed that the...

Update: I think I have solved the mystery of the ‘alphabetical chaining’ problem! In the last few weeks I have seen a few more instances of this, and realised that the chaining does not go on indefinitely but either completely stops at some point or returns, after several records, to the record I ha...

When I go to the Wordle website I get this warning message: Is it safe? (I realise it is not referring to Jane's plugin but to something in Wordle itself).

Firstly, can you confirm that you have now read, as suggested, pages 85 to 88 of 'Getting the Most from Family Historian', which deal with diagram text schemes? (If you haven't done that yet, click on 'Help' on the main toolbar and select 'Getting the Most from Family Historian' from the menu). Once...

Mike has referred you to some discussions of how to use an Expression to identify sets of twins (assuming they have birth dates recorded!) and use the Expression to add an icon to their boxes in diagrams, or give their box some other distinctive feature. However, to get the word 'Twin' to appear in ...

.....I'm using the Title field for "Sir", or "Lord", and the Name Suffix for the "I of Ardloch", etc. I think you might find you need to use the name Prefix for "Sir", "Lord" etc, rather than the Title field. The Adorned Name includes Prefix and Suffix but not Title, as far as I know. (Edit: Mike's...

For example my Grandfather married in 1922 and died in 1972, the GRO references for these facts are: Marriage: Marylebone 1922 Sep Qtr, Vol 1a, Page 1619. Death: Stoke Newington1972 Dec Qtr, Vol 05e, Page 427. In this case your searches have produced positive results (assuming you have no reason to...

When you have selected the person you want as the diagram root (in this case, yourself) you will see four different diagram icons in the main toolbar (just to the right of ‘Media’). The last of these is the All Relatives diagram which includes anyone who is a blood relative of the diagram root and a...

You would have selected the icon using Diagram > Options > Boxes tab.
To remove it, select the Ancestor tab in the lower half of the Boxes tab. Then click Edit Features. Then untick Icon.

A possible explanation is that Ancestral Sources has modified a different file. Do you have more than one project, or more than one Gedcom file? For example have you got an old free-standing gedcom file from which you later created a Project for V4 or V5? I don't know which version of FH you are usi...

The Plugin Bill mentions will give you a detailed results set showing each fact which cites the source, with the Entry date, Where within Source, Text from Source, Quality assessment and Note (all fields which appear in the Source Pane of the Property Box). Double-clicking on an entry in the Item co...

Thank you for your comments Simon. I had wondered whether the intention was to include only what you call the 'entry' and 'exit' tabs, but that clearly wasn't quite what was happening. I agree that remembering every tab will make it easier to understand what is going on, and that the context within ...