Family Historian User Group

I wonder if he did not actually go to the Register Office in person but sent someone else (maybe one of your grandparents) with the declaration that he was you father. Seems strange in that case that your mother didn't go to register you though. Even though he was in a protected occupation he may we...

Select the Tools menu then Preferences. Now select the Startup tab and you will find fields for Default Startup File and Startup Folder. You can press the select buttons next to them to go and browse for these items.

I suggest looking for the births first. If they were registered it would have been at the same time so they will end up with either the same District, Volume and Page reference in the index or the page numbers will be one apart as they will be last on one page and first on the next. All you can do i...

I have had something like this on a certificate from the GRO. It seems to be recording a correction. http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/certnum1.jpg http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/certnum2.jpg In these scans from one of my certificates you can see 23 next to where Scoot has been crossed ou...

Sorry I just reread your original posting and realised I missed the bit about deleting all the facts that were linked to the source.
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Why not make a copy of your data in a new file, open that file, go to the Sources tab and delete the source. This seems to delete all mention of it throughout the file. Or have I missed something?

You will find it in C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataCalico PieFamily HistorianQueriesCustom.

Other custom items such as custom text schemes or reports are in similar folders under C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataCalico PieFamily Historian.

The best training course I know of is the user manual. It is laid out well as a tutorial and the chapters can be taken individually. It is the only online tutorial I have ever completed on any software; it covers things in enough detail so you understand without boring you to death.

That's one of the things I really like about FH, there's more than one way to achieve things so you can use whichever you prefer.

Mac users often run VirtualPC which allows them to run Windows based applications so they can use FH as well.  If you use the search on this site and enter Virtual PC as the search string you will find several Mac users recommending this approach.

Alternatively use Diagram editing and click and drag to add the child between two existing ones (see chapter 5 in the manual).  For example in the tree below if you click on either Bill Jones or Tina Adams and drag down between Ron and John. http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/click1.JPG A dotted ...

Try
{if female & no spouses} %FAM.HUSB>BIRT.DATE%-%FAM.HUSB>DEAT.DATE%

and the equivalent for if male

There is a very simple way to do it.  First make a backup copy of your data under a different file name. Under the File menu of Family Historian you will find Split Tree Helper.  Select Delete all Individuals NOT found by the Individual query below and in the drop down box for Individual query selec...

Hilary I have listed how to do the screen dump below, please forgive me if this is what you are already trying, I am just trying to make sure I put in all the steps to make sure you end up with what we need to help. Open FH so that it shows the problem. Now press the Alt and Print Screen (Prnt Scrn ...

Excellent, thanks Nick. I have now found my great grandmother's death certificate reference.

Do you need the email to take up the offer, or is there a code which anyone can use?

Nick posted his reply while I was still writing mine so I hadn’t seen it until after posting mine.  While I commented about adding more data as I get it, I totally agree with Nick’s comments about verifying data received from others.  I find it very hard to get some people to tell you their sources,...

David I think this is all down to personal preference.  My own interests are in going back as far as possible on every direct line I can; I know this becomes totally impossible as the number of ancestors doubles with each generation, but you can get most back to the early 19th century with the BMD r...

From a rough search on FreeBMD, http://freebmd.rootsweb.com, age at death appears to have been included from 1866 onwards. At a later date in the 20th century this becomes date of birth instead.

I suspect the owners of Family Tree Maker (FTM) asked the BBC is they could use the series name and logo on their product.  It's not really dishonest of the BBC, it's just marketing by FTM.

I tend to use the place names that were in existence at the time.  So for instance my sister in law was born in Wordsley, Staffordshire whereas her two children born at the same hospital some thirty years later were born in Wordsley, West Midlands.  I agree this can cause problems when searching but...

Release 3 looks like it will cover lots more customisations.

Simon has obviously spent time studying the wish list. I look forward to the many enhancements he has listed for diagrams and just how much customisation will be possible.

What additional information do you want to add? You can customise the diagrams to include any event or attribute.

To avoid disaster make sure you have Prompt for backups selected on the Backup tab under Tools, Preferences. I let FH create a backup any time I use it, then occasionally I prune them back to one per month for the past year and one per year before that. I would also recommend doing a regular backup ...