Family Historian User Group

The Version 7.8 (Update) should appear in the Microsoft Store very soon, see - https://github.com/ShammyLevva/FTAnalyzer I suppose it's all down to whether the developer updates his own site download links at the same time as he makes his software update submission to the Microsoft Store, which is b...

For anyone interested this is what currently appears in the WineHQ FAQ regarding use of winhttp which is supported, but with limitations as described: "6.6.8 How do I configure a proxy? If you want to use a proxy server for all HTTP connections, simply set the http_proxy environment variable. On man...

David, Yes that's my experience as well. Not sure if it's a 'bug' or a by design feature. However, I do find it useful for recording something that I want to see on screen without altering the name with some 'permanent' suffix, e.g. Mary /Smith/ née ? for a married woman whose maiden name is not yet...

You should record the 'awards' using the 'name suffix', but preferably combined with Alternative Name(s) to which you can attach Facts/Events that will indicate when the various titles/qualifications etc. were awarded or came into use, i.e. if you add them to the standard Name entry for the individu...

Because the New Zealand Government restricts access to such 'Historic' information, i.e. marriage information is not released online until 80 years after the marriage event to protect living people (including direct relatives of the deceased), you are restricted to any Newspaper announcements and/or...

@mikeroch, As another Mac User (MacBookPro) I think you need to make some key decisions: - Do you want/prefer to run wholly on Mac or operate a Windows Computer separately? - If wholly on Mac, are you willing to consider running a Windows system on your Mac System either via dual-booting Mac and Win...

Mike, Yes, I understand what you say, but have never experienced a problem using the ALIA Tag and, as far as I am concerned; and from my experience so far, it works as it should within Family Historian; and takes only a few minutes at most to set up the required links. I do of course, also attach a ...

Mike (Quest), I would be useful to have a few more details, e.g. do you mean you have a John 'Smith' whose parents were John & Mary 'Smith' but you don't know (yet) which John & Mary 'Smith', or some other scenario. You will probably get a number of suggestions on what you might do, but, personally,...

The only qualifying info. I would add is that, if the MacBook Air is a recent purchase, i.e. since 2018, then it is unlikely to have any USB 1/2/3 Ports, only USB C. However, this should not really be a significant problem, as the vast majority of Mac Users with newer hardware will probably have pur...

This might help: https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Install-and-use-different-versions-of-Office-on-the-same-PC-6ebb44ce-18a3-43f9-a187-b78c513788bf The key message instruction seems to be: 1. Completely uninstall all MS Office 2019 Products; 2. Install the older Office Product, i.e Access 201...

There seems to be some misunderstanding here. ANUL has been fully supported by GEDCOM as an event since version 4.0 and I'm afraid the Status indicator in Family Historian has nothing whatsoever to do with GEDCOM, or whatever its limitations might/might not be. It's simply a hard coded Calico Pie 'a...

The suggestions so far seem to be based on an assumption that, simply because, the two children have been described as 'siblings' in a newspaper article (time, date and place unknown) that one of the two known adults (parents?) has a direct genetic link to both children. This may be the case, but is...

I would ask one more question: Why is the "Name" that appears in the GRO Index not recorded in the source citation, i.e. What if the the name in GRO Index entry does not precisely match the PersonID Name? My own practice is to record index entries exactly as recorded in Text from Source - "Where wit...

Have a look at "Internet Data Matching" in Family Historian Help which explains how the search of FindMyPast and MyHeritage works (and its limitations). Hint: It's an automated search facility: FMP uses some of the key data in your local Family Historian file as you work through it and flags up Hint...

David,

Disc Cloning to a new Windows 10 device would, in all probability, completely trash Windows Activation, as well as erasing the recovery partition and as there is no Windows 10 Activation Key, except in the case of purchasing a full retail version....

Mervyn

Geoff, I use the native MacOS app VipRiser - https://onflapp.wordpress.com/vipriser/ - mainly because it's still maintained unlike the other Mac options which have not been updated for years because there is little/no real need for a pure PDF Printer Driver on MacOS when running native apps. The bas...

To add to Colin's comments see below, although this is on a MacBook Pro rather than an Air which is limited to a dual core i5 processor which is obviously lower in the power stakes: Image shows the Mac Desktop with: - Windows 10 Pro (installed using VirtualBox) directly running Windows Apps - Linux ...

My opinion remains unaltered by all the varied assessments and reports, primarily because there is a great deal of dishonesty out there about which GEDCOM Standard is being supported by which genealogy software product. - Any developer who states that their product specifically supports GEDCOM 5.5 a...

Presumably it puts FH some way behind others that have already adopted 5.5.1 as a standard, unless the question becomes: Will FH7 be fully 5.5.1 (and possibly 5.5.5) compliant? Of course, those that have already adopted 5.5.1, some several years ago, still have the same issues with data transfer bec...

Colin, In contrast, I very much doubt that there are many FH users who use symbolic links at all, let alone between the folders you mentioned, but I'd be pleased to be proved wrong. The only way I use them is to avoid the need for multiple copies of linked document/media files If I remember correctl...

For anyone still concerned about the current Search Bug in the Windows 10 File Manager, there's some information on an update fix (currently undergoing testing) here: https://news.softpedia.com/news/next-windows-10-version-1909-cumulative-update-likely-to-fix-file-explorer-bug-528661.shtml I didn't ...

Colin, Works fine on Catalina (which itself has just been upgraded to 10.15.2 - another 3Gb download which makes Windows monthly updates look puny!) A third-party MacOS checker (Go64) reports Crossover as 64-bit, apart from one library file 'libFAudio.0.19.10.dylib' Not sure what the impact might be...

The system Colin describes is very similar to the one I use, i.e. I'm also a Mac User and use 'Time Machine' which once configured requires very little user maintenance/interaction time (no expensive NAS Drive or Internet/Cloud costs involved); but in my case I also have a portable synchronisation D...

Helen,

The Version in the AppStore does seem to have been updated (6 Dec 2019), but isn't recognised by the "Check Installed Plugins Against the Store" Plugin, presumably because it identifies as the same version number as the previous release.

Mervyn

Have followed this discussion with interest; and as an obsessive user of Backups and (Manual) Synchronisation across multiple systems I can see merit in the suggestion that inbuilt backup systems for software applications should consider saving 'vital' software settings as well as data. However, tha...