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Thanks Mike, wasn't aware of that. Just glad I don't have that many to amend, was in the process of attaching them gradually. Unfortunately, with 16 years of research I have rather a lot of media that needs to be linked, it'll take some time.

I've got to tweak quite a few of my media in various trees because I've Facts Media in the Media Gallery (obviously the only place you could link it under FH5) and now need to move them to Facts Media and remove from "Picture" Media. Mind you changing the documents to Facts Media will re-enable them...

Thanks Mike. Bit of an oversight really since reports such as Individual Summary Report do include the Facts Media by default.

Is there any way of reconfiguring the default media report so it includes Facts Media as well as normal Multimedia please? By default it only includes Multimedia and I would prefer it to show all types of media as it would allow me to work out what media I needed to add to each individual. I know I ...

Thanks Mike, I'll bare the Plugin in mind although at present as I'm trialling V6 so I can't run any plugins.

Thanks Nick. Always simple when you know how.

I can't find anything on this but I may have missed it. I have a number of Note Records which were imported via Gedcom from FTM which I would like to change so that they show as Local Notes for the individuals concerned and then show in the Focus Window, rather than having to change to the Notes tab...

Yes that's working OK typing in the Project name. Nice improvement.

Thanks again Mike, I may have missed that bit in the How to Upgrade details. I've an old backup of the customisations which should include most of the changes. Thankfully I knew where they were anyway. I probably will upgrade to V6 since the Media Gallery and enhanced filter facility on the Individu...

Thanks Mike, I'll give it a go. I have to admit if it is behaving more like windows keyboard search then that is an improvement.

Having just installed V6 trial over the top of a licensed V5, I have noticed that some of my customisation settings have disappeared completely. I can't see anything in any of the Knowledge Base Articles to suggest I needed to do anything differently but am happy to be shown otherwise. ;) Diagram Op...

I've just upgraded to a trial of V6 to see if I want to upgrade and generally finding a lot of changes are positive. However, what I have noticed, and I don't know if this is just isolated to my PC, is that where previously under V5 in the Project Window I could press the first key of a Project name...

That would make sense - I'm currently partway through a 3 month Gold personal Premium subscription that came with another well known family history software package. You dont get 1911 census, but the rest is ok, although personally prefer ancestry.co.uk but havent tried find my past yet You don't g...

Anyone contemplating buying this should check out thegenealogist website and what is included in the free subscription. The ebay advert picture suggests its 3 months Gold Subscription (its not specified in the text) which is the second level down and doesn't include a number of data sets. Again, as ...

Thanks Mike and Nick for your replies. To clarify I don't just want to record occupations without other Census information, such as residence, I wanted to include the occupation attribute with the Census fact including the residence they are at on that particular date, rather than having a separate ...

Is there any way of getting AS to not create two facts when entering an occupation on the census input screen please? I'd rather there was one fact that simply says what their occupation was with the rest of the details for that particular census entry. The main reason for this is that I don't like ...

Thanks Mike, that's good to know it can be disabled. I find the hints icon on ancestry very annoying even though its not that large, and I've only one tree on there which I've done recently for a friend.

This link might be of interest https://finance.yahoo.com/news/family-historian-genealogy-software-integrates-110000958.html; perhaps angled more to the other side of the pond! Will you have to use a menu command for this feature or will it automatically provide such hints? If its automatic and can'...

Tools - Work with data - Place List If I amend an entry so that is completely identical to a new one, it appears to accept the change. However, when I click close, FH freezes completely and I then get a message that it needs to close. From memory, I think if I continue to try and edit the Place list...

Thanks Mike, I had a feeling that was the only way of safeguarding changes.

Mind you, it would help if the editing facility didn't allow you to enter a place name that already exists because this is what always crashes FH in these circumstances.

Nicola

I have autosave set to save every 5 minutes but I've found quite a few times that if I'm editing the Place List (through Tools menu, work with data), tidying it up as I often find several spellings for the same place, the autosave doesn't work and if I make one mistake and edit a place to the same n...

Hi William Your second question is something I've had to do recently so I can sympathise. My problem had been due to keeping separate FH files for each surname but then a combined one for importing into TNG, which is when I found I had various versions of the same place which caused fun importing on...

I don't really have any custom events in FH, I've generally avoided them. I have found some weird custom events appear in TNG which I suspect are something to do with the original "trees" I created in FTM before importing into FH. Hadn't noticed them before so have now set TNG to ignore as there are...

Just tried using the new export plugin as was having trouble with importing into TNG using the old export plugin (although more likely a TNG import issue). Didn't notice any real difference in speed from the old plugin (it may have been a bit quicker), the tree has over 23K people so fairly large. I...

Thanks tatewise and delwoodman, I'd completely missed that under page layout.[smile]