Family Historian User Group

I have used Family Historian for years, but probably not as well as I should have! Unfortunately Jane's courses are too far from me. I have a very comprehensive family tree, going back many centuries, and I have tried to use concrete data such as Censuses, bmd certs etc to ensure I have not been fol...

I will shortly buy an android tablet. I have seen posts for possible apps so my FH data can be viewed although the main data will remain on my Windows PC. Can you suggest which is currently the best android app and whether it fits well with FH including possibly the photos too?

Hi Nick, Thanks for such a prompt reply. I was looking for the image in the image tag of the main properties box rather than the source record. In my lack of detailed knowledge of FH I had stored all of my images there (census records, birth certs, photos etc) rather than in the source record. Now t...

I am quite new to this add on to Family Historian. I have read the help files but am having a little difficulty with images. When I complete the Census screen in Sources and add an image (the original Census form) I get a message saying the FH file will be updated. On inspecting the FH file I see th...

Mike, thanks for your help. It seems that it was my silly mistake which I realised while following your suggestion. I had several backups within a folder but I highlighted the backup before I highlighted the folder so the path was incomplete. So I had c:userspaulgeneologybackup1.zip rather than c:us...

Apologies again as I think I replied in the wrong way. I meant to reply as follows: Thanks for such a speedy reply. I did read this article but a couple of paragraphs confused me: 1) 'When restoring a Medium Backup or Full Backup, a new Project folder must be created. Once the restored family tree d...

I hope I am using this forum correctly. I have bought a new pc running Windows 7 to replace my old pc running Vista. I use FH5 and did a full backup which I have copied to an external hard drive. Using FH5 on the new pc I thought I could just restore the backup from this hard drive and it would set ...