Family Historian User Group

Why do I get rebuked for that confirmation? Not a rebuke, just an expression of bafflement. Because there didn’t seem any point in repeating what had already been said. If your answer had come in first it wouldn’t have occurred to me to write my own reply saying exactly the same thing. :? (Helen sa...

Yes Mike, that's what I said.

Is there a way to see the full template that is used for an individual? Click on the vertical bar at the extreme right of the sentence field, then select Edit Sentence. That will display the current sentence template for the individual. The sentence field has a white background if it has previously...

No, it still doesn't work properly. The Wish List item says: BUT when located and selected in the All tab, the associated field is NOT selected in the Sources For yellow pane. If there happens to be more than one Source Citation, then the 1st Citation always remains selected . (My italics.) This is ...

Whatever is more practical. Perhaps the proposal should just say "FH should display a list of those which already exist ..." then CP can decide how to implement it.
[Helen's and Mark's posts came in as I was writing this.]

I think the original request comes down to this: Issues: When saving a new diagram as either a Custom Diagram Type or a Family Historian Chart the user is presented with a field in which to enter the name of the Diagram Type or Chart. If the name has already been used a warning message appears askin...

I think I must have missed this when it was first posted. Mark has added it to his “to be closed” list but I would like to add some support for the suggestion. The OP’s request arose because it is difficult to apply a new Boxes Scheme to a Saved Chart, because the box settings have to be laboriously...

Lorna, the screenshot very clearly says [Everyone Diagrm] at the top and the Navigation bar starts Ever... Ah, OK I was looking at it on a small screen before so didn't spot that. I can now see that on a larger screen. So the overlapping problem is caused by having inserted other types of diagram i...

I also don't understand your need to click the extension buttons as there are none in an Everyone Diagram . Mike, I'm pretty sure its NOT an Everyone diagram, for the reason you have mentioned - as you say, there are no expansion buttons in an Everyone Diagram. I think it's either an All Relatives ...

Sorry, I don't think that is possible. The Help file just says " If the age information is inconsistent with other information already held, Family Historian will add an exclamation mark in brackets after the displayed data (e.g. “22 (!)”). " There is no mention of expanding the tolerance. There is ...

I'm not sure it's true to say that no-one makes the Method 1 v Method 2 decision any more..... I don't think anyone has said that. The point is that before v7 everyone had to make that decision themselves, for each generic source type. But new users now don't have to make those decisions if they si...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

20 May 2023 13:10

I did think about proposing we ditched the article all together -- as Lorna says, it isn't a decision that most newcomers to the product will need to make....

I had thought the same (ditching it all together) but hesitated to make such a radical suggestion!

I think one problem with the existing KB article on Method1/Splitting and Method 2/Lumping is that, as it says, the examples “are based on using ƒh6 or ƒh7 with Generic Sources, but the principles apply to all versions of ƒh and all kinds of Sources.” What it doesn’t say is that before V7, when all ...

KFN: Judging by the what you have quoted, the Legacy community uses the terms “lumping” and “splitting” in exactly the same way as the FH community does. The difference is that it uses the term ”Master Source” where FH uses “Source record”. Are you suggesting that when the FH documentation introduce...

2071 Census sources created by AS. I have a total of 4368 sources in my project.

(I only use AS for censuses. I developed my own workflow for dealing with other types of data back in the days when AS was 'Gedcom Census' and only handled census data!)

You can create many different diagram types, some with and some without the icons. When you first added the icons did you just add them to one of the standard diagram types (e.g. Ancestors, Descendants, All Relatives etc)? If so, the first thing you should do is open one of those diagrams and use Di...

They sent me the same response. I had quoted the paragraph from the 7.0.9 release notes and asked if it was an oversight that it was not implemented for Query and Plugin Result sets (as the paragraph seems to suggest it would be) but they didn't comment on that. I suppose we should just re-open Wish...

I have now managed to find the reference to this in CP's release notes (v7.0.9) Previously you had to click on the text in the first column of many lists (e.g. record lists), to select that item. Now by default, you can click on any text in any column and the whole row displays as selected. Some lis...

The problem is that no.567 has been marked “Released in Version 7.0” so has, in effect, been closed. I’d suggest Create a new item for highlighting rows in the Query and Plugin Result set (mentioning that this has already been implemented for the Records window) Amend Wish List item 290 (locking fir...

Croftian raised this in another topic recently and Mike pointed out that: That was discussed in 17298|[Wish List Reference 567] Highlight complete selected row in Records Window and resulted in Wish List Ref 567 Highlight selected Row(s) in Records Window which was closed when partially implemented ...

is it rectifiable given that I haven't done a backup for a while ... Do you happen to have any saved Charts (not the same thing as diagram types) and, if so, do they have all the required box conditions? If you have any they will be under Charts > Saved Charts . It would be possible to recover the ...

Are you by any chance using the Marina Orange theme? I was, and I saw the same. I've switched to Metrolike and the subforums are now at the top. (User control Panel > Board Preferences > My board Style)

what if ....General Usage forum were moved to the General Usage subforum. This way there would be only subforums in Family Historian Usage forum and the General Usage forum would be at the top. On similar lines I suggested an Unclassified Questions section to hold topics which the questioner can't ...

I've already raised that point with Helen but unfortunately the practicalities make it difficult. If you click on one of the subforum links in the General Forum description you'll be taken straight to the subforum. If you get into the habit of doing it that way you won't need to scroll down to see t...

If you use the technique described in the article I gave a link to in my previous post you can choose exactly which people to include. If your relative only wants the direct ancestors, use an Ancestors diagram to add the people to a Named List. Otherwise start with an All Relatives diagram of the ch...