Family Historian User Group

I keep all my FH materials in a folder on my desktop. I have various sub-folder for census images, scans of certificates, material from cover CDs and so forth but all in a top level folder which also holds my .ged file and backup directory. I use a utility called sync back se (free) to synch this wi...

David, Have you worked through the example in the file that comes with FH? I mean Programs->Family Historian->Getting the most from Family Historian; the first chapter goes through a man with two wives, this may help. As to queries, I think that these take some getting used to and I would leave thos...

David, The easiest thing is to try it. The women will all appear with their maiden names in the standard diagram, and people will appear with the appropriate spouses dependent on which branch (e.g. of children) you look at. Key is arranging the order on the tabs to get the marriages lined up appropr...

Yes - you need to download gedcom census (see higher up the home page of FHUG) and use that brilliant and highly useful tool. There are many threads on how to use it

if you search the forums you will find some references to the way FH makes zip files with an odd root (or something). It means that Vista (for example) can't open the ZIP file under explorer from memory.

Is this the problem with the way FH makes ZIP files in an odd way (and led me to lose some work)?

You need to open from within FH as they won't unzip under windows without a tweak that I can't remember.

I think you do File -> Backup/Restore -> Restore and take it from there.

I have been using Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition recently for the following reasons: 1) Although not very cheap, at £90 you are allowed to run it on three PCs which suits my needs for laptop and desktop usage 2) I had to give up on OpenOffice after three years as I couldn't get it to repl...

Mount Hermon I think - I checked google and it turns up many entries for Mount Hermon Orphanage Hampstead

DO they do it once or several times? Might it be to indicate that the name has been derived (or guessed at?)

Which version are you using?

I have bought privately produced materials as part of my Family History research - where it is published it gets an ISBN number and you get to 'assert the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988' This doesn't mean you ow...

Works allows one to save direct to CSV so getting data out should be somewhat straightforward depending on how the fields have been used

I don't know about the corruption, as to the download it doesn't matter where you download (in principle) as you run the installer which sorts everything else out

Just had a look on Cyndi's list - again there are many tools but all seem to be aimed at the other route, i.e. Gedcom out. Maybe if you had a browse something might turn up?

I can see it would be helpful, for example when I find a cluster of ancestors in a village I tend to capture everyone with that surname on the grounds that they are likely to be linked eventually - it would help me to have a visual difference between those I know are ancestors and those I am not sure.

Had a quick look on google - you may have to go via a different format. Here are some ideas on text and excel conversion - http://www.tedpack.org/text2ged.html.

There are lots of tools to go the other way which is no help[smile]

annuitant - someone who receives benefit from an annuity? This would explain how they survived 38 years in bed!

The British Embassy seems to have had more formal roles called Political Agents at this time - http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1017170872755 for example has a list of such people in Bahrain starting with the interesting text - In Janua...

I'd go with option 'a' as well

Vista has known sever problems with network writes - have you installed Service Pack 1?

has anyone had a look at Family Show?http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx

Written by a company called Vertigo for (believe it or not) Microsoft this is a rich proof of concept rather than a full product, but does have some good interface ideas

I use a piece of freeware called SyncBack SE from 2BrightSparks which allows me to synchronise a memory stick with a hard drive structure on my desktop. This allows me to work from the stick on a laptop and then recombine my work without needing to worry about copying file structures.

Jon,

Thanks for this, I had already voted for these appropriately. PS- finding wish list items by reference number is somewhat non0trivial isn't it?!

To make sure I've voted, which wish list item is this? There are a few that have the word location in them.

As I understand it the coverage is very uneven. That said I would be interested in any experiences people have of using them (and how much they spent on them)