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If the required Individual is shown on either the Ancestors or Descendants tab of the Focus window, the quickest way is to click on their magnifying glass. Otherwise you can click on the 'binoculars' Find Record button and type the required name. When you have found the Individual you want in the re...

Max, You can simply add another spouse to Joseph Parsons, i.e. Phoebe.  One way is to use the Individual Property box for Joseph, and click on the blank spouse tab next to the tab for Elizabeth, and then click to Add Spouse, linking to the existing record for Phoebe if there is one, or creating a ne...

If you have a diagram showing the man and his current wife, you can hold down the Ctrl key and click on both of them so they are both selected, and then click the button for an All Relatives Diagram.  You can then hide any boxes you don't want to see. If this isn't effective in your case, you can in...

Happy to help:

OS: Windows XP Home SP3 (32 bit)
Recording Method: 1
Census Transcripts: Yes
Census Images: Yes
Countries: UK (1841-1901) (+ a few US 1930 & Ireland 1911)

I'm on 4.0.2, and I agree with both PDS and Jane, above.  It seems to be a feature of the Property Box that in the All tab for an Individual you can double-click on any linked Individual and go to the All tab for that Individual, but if you double-click on a linked Family , you go to the Main tab fo...

Phil,
Two significant enhancements added in v.4, but not mentioned above, are (i) Fact Queries and associated additional functions, and (ii) the built-in facility to Save as PDF which is especially useful to get a large tree diagram on to a single page.

Brian, I think I have been able to reproduce your problem. If I'm right, you need to get into Page Setup on FH's File menu, and you may have to open a diagram window to be able to do so.  Then set the Orientation to Portrait instead of Landscape.  It seems that FH cleverly keeps the Print Setup and ...

Why not simply use the %FACT.PLAC% data reference rather than invoke the =FactValue function?

Jon,
I presume you've ruled out using the =GetParagraph function because that outputs each paragraph in a separate column?  It also has the benefit of excluding 'hidden' text (in double square brackets).

Can you not simply email the GEDCOM file itself (from your Project .fh_data folder) rather than an exported extract from it? In any case, when I try Export, all the Repository records are included OK.

Bill,
Try the following exclusion filter:

Steve, I personally don't think it matters what record IDs my Sources have.  As far as I can see, Gedcom Census starts with a Source ID which is one greater than the highest-numbered Source ID in the GEDCOM file you open.  Thus I guess your 'old working file' has at least one source record including...

I would do this using the following three filters:

I think Census is the only GEDCOM 5.5 standard event that can be used with either Individual or Family.  The only difference is in the type of record to which the event is attached. The huge disadvantage of using a Family census event is that it is not clear what is meant by 'family'.  In general no...

Chapter 4 of the manual for Family Historian version 4 explains how to Link to Faces ; chapter 10 of the FH version 3 manual explains the same process for what was then called Add Frames . In version 4 you can then use the Multimedia Window to display the group photo and can click on each face to se...

Have you seen this wiki article: http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=aboutother_nonfh_software:acc2ged ?  I guess you can easily generate a suitable csv file from your Lotus Approach database.  Unfortunately the link for downloading acc2ged.zip appears to be broken, but this one works OK: http:/...

According to the GEDCOM 5.5 Standard, to which Family Historian adheres very closely, it is not permitted for the EVEN tag to have a value parameter. Quote from the Standard under http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gcch2.htm#INDIVIDUAL_EVENT_STRUCTURE : The EVEN tag in this st...

I'm pretty sure that Family Historian does not itself provide a mechanism for exporting and importing Preferences, but it stores all such Preferences in the Windows Registry. This means that you can in theory save, and later restore, your current Preferences, but only if you are confident about modi...

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I'm certainly no expert in such matters, and I don't use Dropbox, and I expect others will doubtless put us right in due course.  But I suspect that now (having moved to My Documents) some of your total pathname lengths are too big.  It certainly seems that it is the three longest filenames in your ...

I may be wrong, but I don't think FH keeps a list of Keywords anywhere, but just creates the list from all the keywords used in the currently open GEDCOM file.  I guess that if you delete the unwanted keywords from all the records to which they are attached, those keywords will then disappear from t...

I too think there may be a problem, or perhaps an undocumented limitation of FH (4.0.2). I have tried to generate a standard Multimedia Report for 120 of my 500+ census images. Only the first 90 images were included in the report - the last 30 pages contained only the report text (same when saved as...

Thee are other fields which could be attached to a Census entry, such as Age and Note, and there could be linked records such as Source and Note.  I guess this is why FH shouldn't delete a Census entry just because some of its fields have been blanked.  Actually I decided to add the Census Age to my...

I suspect that this unfortunate problem may be the reason for this warning in the Help file: 'Not all possible data references are permitted. You cannot use data references for composite items which have no data of their own, and hence cannot be edited. And you cannot use data references which refer...

This looks to me like another bug affecting the tab of the Individual property box.

As a workaround, you can reset the Status using the All tab of the property box (or in the Records window).  But I wonder if you would prefer simply to delete the now redundant Family record?