Family Historian User Group

Mike, I can appreciate how difficult if not impossible it is to try and include all variants that people may like in a plugin. Unfortunately the FTDNA conversion won't work for me because I want to retain the existing events and just add a new event for the others from that data. I always like to co...

Hi Mike Apologies I've only just seen your reply. It's taken me this long to get a single project file ready to use due to all the merging of places etc that I've had to do. :shock: Suffice to say, I'm going to keep everything in a single project now even though it's now taking 30 seconds to load or...

Thanks Mike, I obviously didn't read the notes correctly. I'll take a look and give it a go.

I know there is a plugin for creating new people from a CSV file (Flexible CSV Importer) but there doesn't appear to be anything to update existing FH Records with data from a CSV file, or not that I can find from searching. I would like to export my tree to Ancestry but will have issues with indexi...

Suffering from a dose of insomnia (having fallen asleep early evening for a few hours), curiosity got the better of me having seen Mark's reply so decided to install the update. Installed OK, albeit lost all my report options again, but save to pdf now working OK. Exported 336 page 15 Generation anc...

Just to add to Martin's post as I've also received the email from CP having reported the issue, it doesn't though fix the problem with web links: "we have a new Family Historian update for you, 7.0.3.0, which should fix most of the problems you reported with PDFs (the only exception is that entered ...

I have changed the standard Probate fact sentence template to the following: {=GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Type:")} of {his/her} Estate <totalling {=GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Amount:")}> was granted <to {=GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Executor:")}> {date} <at the {_place}.> <{=GetLabelledText(...

The printing preference for links for the Family Historian PDF printer defaults to Automatically detect urls in text as per screenshot below: FHv7 PDF Printing Preference - Links.JPG This suggests that something with FH itself may be defaulting the reports to images before they even get to the pdf p...

I tried to "save as pdf" a 211 page ancestors by generation narrative report. It spooled to page 124 and then completely locked up my laptop and I had to power off/on to get any response. I've exported this previously, albeit that its a little larger than when previously exported, but never had an i...

Thanks Mike, much appreciated. Just what I was after.

I've had a quick search but cannot see anything about this so apologies if there is and send me in its direction. :) I've had a play buy can't work out an expression that would do this. Is it possible in the Source Records List to have a column that indicates in some way (not necessarily the whole t...

I agree with Helen, my default project folder remained the same after upgrading to v7.

CP are adamant that it was a deliberate design decision, so I'll just have to get used to it. I have now managed to fit Main Window, Property Box and Citation box vertically on the screen, so not too bad, certainly something I can live with. PS This works because I have a 43" screen, but how people...

Very quick reply from Calico Pie:

OK thank you for raising that. You aren't the only one who has asked for this. We will look into it and consider seeing if we can add it as part of a minor upgrade.

Fingers crossed ....

Hi Nick, I appreciate that but their website does say "The new word processing features are supported in reports and books, and generated web pages, websites, and family tree CD/DVDs." and while I accept they're not going to go into detail on the What's new page of their website, the functionality i...

As suggested in 18283|Text formatting in V7 you will have to ask Calico Pie via http://www.calico-pie.com/osticket/open.php . I will raise it with Calico Pie, but as you also suggested in that particular post to open a new thread about it in case there was a workaround, that is obviously what I've ...

I was looking forward to seeing the new word processing functionality introduced with v7. However, it now transpires that it doesn't work with Narrative Reports where you make use of Fact notes to add sections into sentences within the sentence template, ie. {note} or %FACT.NOTE2% . :cry: Unfortunat...

I read the above reply from Calico Pie that as long as you didn't have {note} in the sentence template, then any bolding should appear in the narrative reports. However, I now suspect I may not have understood this correctly. I have the following sentence template, I accept that {_place} is included...

... issues with the paper trail, ... The only issue with your paper trail will be that it doesn't go back 1,000 or 1,500 years to where the ethnicity matches were generated. Ethnicity is not your tree. Ethnicity is back way beyond that to when Angles, Saxons, Vikings entered the British Isles and c...

I uploaded my parent's raw DNA to LivingDNA and until they revised their results earlier this year they pretty much matched the paper trail which had been researched extensively over the last 20 years. Unfortunately the last update changed a lot of the results considerably and while I appreciate the...

I have also had this issue but only when adding images to existing sources. I wasn't opening Ancestral Sources via the plugin at all. I don't think I've used Ancestral Sources since upgrading to Win10. I've only recently started using it again after I upgraded my laptop's hard drive earlier in the y...

"never a problem till now" is a risky strategy. It should be possible to temporarily disable one copy of McAfee to inhibit it running. Explain to PlusNet the problem of the two McAfee installations interfering with each other, that they should recognise as a major problem, and ask them to offer a s...

I have to admit to going to find a copy elsewhere as the image was a bit too small for me to read! Not that long a Will anyway and have had a lot of practice reading them over many years from varying dates. Testament in manner and form following I give and bequeath unto my daughter Eleonora Ann Wilk...

Another way is to manage your Media files such that the absolute file path will be the same on any PC . NickiP achieves that by using C:\Docs\Genealogy\Media\... that can be recreated on any PC . Similarly you could use D:\Media\... or C:\Users\Public\Media\... that can exist on any PC . Then the F...

As Mike, I don't use the FH Media Folder. I have a folder called Genealogy (which is about 90gb in size) which is in a Folder called Docs located in the root of the hard drive (ie C:\Docs\Genealogy). I think have folders for Direct Ancestor surnames and sub folders for things like Census, UK BMDs, W...