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Hi Mike, Thank you for all your time, really what I was hoping to achieve with census details is to have little icons on my diagrams so that I can see at a glance what census years are missing, I can do that when I put everyone in separately but I would rather be able to keep the family members toge...

Good morning Mike, Thank you for your reply and explaining things so clearly, it does look very complicated. I've tried just using the ordinary Census fact and then adding the wife and children in as 'Witnesses' changing the Role to wife/son/daughter etc. I now get my little census icon on just the ...

Until now I have entered Census details for each member of the family separately which using the expression %INDI.CENS[year=1851]% has given me the census icons for each year hanging from the boxes in my diagram, however, I have just changed to using 'Family Census' and adding the children in as 'Wi...

@Rusty, it's been said elsewhere, but have you read FH Help > Family Historian Help > What's New in Family Historian 7? Among other things, Research Notes are listed there and you may discover other useful stuff too. Just like when Microsoft reorganise menus, you will soon get used to the new arran...

I am beginning to regret upgrading to v7, I can't find anything, all the dropdown menus seem to have been chopped up and it takes me ages and far too many clicks to get to where I want to be (if I can actually find where the item I want has been hidden), even something as simple as attaching a commo...

Go to 'Edit' choose 'Unlink From' and unlink the children then add them to the correct parents using 'Link Existing Record'

Margaret.

Thank you Mike 'Expressions' worked beautifully.

Yes Mike, that sounds more like me! However 'Expressions' sounds a better way to do it.

Thank you Mike, I'll give that a go later on today, I don't think that I used 'expressions' last time but I'll have a try, thanks.

Margaret.

At one time I had a little blue (for my husband) and red (for me) triangle under our direct ancestors in the diagram, but now I've forgotten how I set it up and I was wondering if there was an easier way to mark direct ancestors in diagrams. Back in 2014 Lorna Craig said that she coloured the box of...

Thank you.

Is it necessary to share a Birth Certificate with the 'Mother' and 'Father'? I share the fact with the 'Informant' who is usually one of the parents, but do others also share with the parents, it seems like a lot of extra work when child is automatically joined to the parents, unless I suppose Adopt...

Thank you Mike, I'll just leave it as it is, I doubt if it'll crop up again as I haven't found very many second marriages and certainly none that I'll have a certificate for, it just puzzled me that is all.

Thanks

Margaret.

Thank you Mike, I don't have any multiple marriages so far where I have certificates for either or both and normally the 'M' appears under both boxes, just as long as that is the way it is meant to work and I haven't done anything that I shouldn't!!!

Thank you.

Margaret.

I have just noticed something strange (or more probably I have done something silly!!!), I have my charts set up to show BMD icons under the boxes in the charts, but only when I have the appropriate certificate. I have just noticed that my great uncle who married twice doesn't have the 'M' icon unde...

Have you tried Custodian 4? That stores information but doesn't integrate with FH the way that AS does.

With regard to a father registering the birth and death of his baby on the same day, not as traumatic I know but my husband was advised by the doctor to register his fathers death just hours later as that was the only time to catch the Registrar in the village otherwise there would be a wait of days...

BTW Rusty: You don't need to close the Property Box window before moving on to another person in the Diagram.
Just single-click that other person and the Property Box contents change.

Thank you Mike, I'd forgotten about that.

I usually enter people directly into the diagram which I think is wonderfully simple and you can see your tree grow and how it is shaping as you add people. Double clicking on a name brings up the individuals box right in the centre of the screen though you can move it around to suit yourself, when ...

Thank you Mike and Brent, I've spent the afternoon trying out AS as well as tinkering generally with my database and I'm still undecided what to do, I think that a few days quiet reflection might be the answer.

So thank you both for your input and thank you Mike for your patience.

Margaret.

Thanks Mike, this afternoon I’m going to sit down and have a serious look at my file, it is in a muddle where I’ve tried out various things with varying success (or in my case failure!). I usually work from diagrams, but my boxes hold the minimum name and bmd dates and I rarely use plugins, So I thi...

Thank you for all of that Mike, I really just wanted to keep households together but obviously my ideas aren't possible or feasible. I've had a quick look at Ancestral Sources, with my record it seems as if I'll just have more questions to ask, but I'll think about giving it a go, it might actually ...

Thanks for your reply Mike, sorry I'm not very good at explaining. George and Elizabeth are the parents, they have five children four of whom are mentioned on the 1841 Census (I don't use Ancestral Sources), so I've used the Census Family fact for George and Elizabeth then went to share the fact wit...

I'm getting in a tangle again, I want to use the Family Census Fact and share it with the other people living in the house, I would like my sentence to read something like:- 'William Chilcott appeared in the census in the household of George Chilcott and Elizabeth Lawley on 6 June 1841in Moorfields,...

Thank you very much Helen.