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Hi Bon, I also had this problem with one of my wife ancestors, only the mothers name on the birth cerificate, fortunately we were searching at Reggie house and there was a note in the margin, on asking an assistant its meaning we were refered to a Kirk sessions record which named the father at a cou...

Many many thanks - isn't life simple when you know how[smile]Phil.

I have been using FH sence version 2.1 with various upgrade to now vesrsion 3.1. In all that time my individuals list has been in alphabetical order, which has been nice and handy when searching members of various families. I recently attempted to upload a PAF gedcom file which aborted as incompatib...

If it helps, I set up a custom event for marriage witness as {individual} was a {label}{date}{_place} with witness as the event/attribute. entering the place with 'at the marriage of (couples name)'. One then gets a sentence that reads e.g. 'John Doe was a witness on 21 July 1864 at the marriage of ...

Thanks Dave, all fixed.
Phil.[smile]

Hi, I recently had a problem with my computer which involved saving the data to disc and then reloading it after having to reload the FH program. On FH start up I now have a blank screen and have to access my data from the file menu. How can I get the data to open in the start up screen automaticall...