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That is odd because I have tried printing several JPG from Windows Live Photo Gallery and IrfanView and Microsoft Office Picture Manager via Family Historian PDF without any errors. But I do get the error from Windows Photo Viewer ! You also get the error if you print a Word document to the FH PDF ...

Can you confirm that you were trying to save as PDF from within the Family Historian program? I would only expect this message to appear if you had previously saved the chart in another format, such as JPG, and were viewing it outside FH, using Windows Picture Viewer. If you tried to save it as PDF ...

I am still having no success in replicating the alphabetical chaining problem reliably. I have tried repeating some of the sequences where it has occurred and am 90% certain that I have repeated the same steps but everything works perfectly. Because the problem is infrequent and unpredictable I am b...

Simon, Thank you for taking the time to look at this. I will do some more experiments this evening trying to replicate the problem consistently, and will report back. Meanwhile I can answer some of your points: The first is - why does the Property Box sometimes only go back a few steps? Is it possib...

I always do a "Full" backup of each PROJECT file. I have 10 project files. I also do GED file backup separately after each project file backup Are there separate GED files for each project ? ie when I EXPORT "all" and tick all boxes when in a project does that backup all Family Historian or only th...

Is there a way to have all events and notes with say just the year? If you want all dates in the text scheme to be displayed as just the year, simply select year in the Date Format menu in Edit Text Scheme. Otherwise, start by selecting the date format you want for most of the items and then edit t...

So taking Facts as an example, the associated local Notes and any associated Shared Record Notes will all be include in the initial body of the Report along with all the other Facts. If the Shared Record Notes are some extensive context details then they will overload the paragraph. Similar example...

It is possible to link the Note record to a Source record. It is then possible to link this Source record to any number of Facts as well as to Individual and Family records. Ah, yes. But then you end up with the Note in the Sources section of the report, rather than the main body of the report. Thi...

Is it possible to link a Note Record to a fact and/or person, and if so how is this done? Note Records (referred to in some contexts as Shared Notes) can be linked to whole records of any other type, but not to facts. To quote from the FH Help files: "...if you wish to make a note that is applicabl...

There is now a template for this in the downloads, added recently by John Morrison I think:
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... susrecords

It partly depends on ..... how the "printed" report will look. Yes, this is another reason why I use shared Note Records. I think a large chunk of historical background information sits best at the end of a report, or at least the end of the secion on a particular individual. If it is in the Note f...

For historical events in an individual's life I use standard or custom facts to contain what you call the 'hard information', citing source documents such as censuses or military records in the usual way. In the note field for the fact I enter brief details but I also add 'See historial note on xxx'...

The initial font (which will apply to both the name and anything else below it) is easily changed by clicking Select in the Edit Text Scheme window, then clicking Apply or OK . If you want to change the font for subsequent items, it takes a few more steps. First, in Edit Text Scheme select <Font cha...

Hi Tim, Right-click on any column heading and select Configure Columns . Scroll down to the bottom of the list on left hand side of the Configure Columns dialog and select other . Click the ">" symbol in the centre. Choose your heading (e.g. Spouse 1) and in the Expression field enter INDI.~SPOU>NAM...

It looks as if you have accidentally entered 'Butcher' in the Place field for the occupation fact, as well as in the main field. Select the occupation in the facts tab for the individual, and delete the entry in the Place field.

I'm using Windows 7 Professional SP1. This evening I have seen both extremes of the problem: at one point only being able to go back one record, but later on finding that it was chaining back endlessly alphabetically. In this case the alphabetical chaining didn't start until after I had already navi...

For some time I have been a bit puzzled by the behaviour of the forward/back navigation arrows at the top of the Property box. Firstly, is there a limit to the number of records that can be ‘remembered’ when using these arrows? Sometimes the trail seems to stop after going back only one record (of a...

Once you have got rid of the reduntant marriage event, as described by Peter, you will find you can use the Report Option called 'Auto-Generate Sentences if Missing Facts'.

This is from the FH Help files:

Thanks Mike, it is now. It wasn't half an hour ago! Edit: I don't think the problem was the Check Installed Plugins Against The Store Plugin. When it first failed to find Show Project Statistics in the store I browsed the store direct and it definitely wasn't there. Then half an hour later it was th...

Mike,
I just tried to upgrade this plugin by running the Check Installed Plugins Against the Store plugin, but the result set showed that the Show Project Statistics plugin is not in the store at all. Has the old version been removed but the new one is still awaiting approval?

Hi Val, Welcome to genealogy and to Family Historian. An address is stored in the 'residence' field. This field is not displayed by default, as residence is one of many facts which can be added to an individual record. In the individual's Property Box click on the second tab marked Facts . Then clic...

The latest version of FH currently available is 5.0.9. You can check what version you already have by clicking on Help in the toolbar at the top of the screen, then clicking About Family Historian at the end of the list. A small window will open showing on the first line what your current version i...

And presumably there would be a record of the death of an English citizen who died abroad at the GRO? It would be interesting to get this certificate from the GRO and find out the name of the informant in England. Some, but not all, deaths of British citizens abroad are in the GRO Consular indices....

I thought that the information about the event was recorded in a register, and if a certificate was required, a clerk produces a certificate by extracting the information from the register onto the appropriate form. If that is the case, there is no such thing as "a certificate in parish records". Y...

We are considering creating Forums for such Subject related topics as Diagrams & Charts , Reports & Books , Queries , and Installation & Upgrades . Does anyone have any other suggestions? People sometimes ask how to sort things out after they have made a mistake: for example if someone's spouse has...