Family Historian User Group

I'm quite happy customising a tab so that there are tick boxes to turn flags on and off. However, I am failing to manage to create a box which I can type into. How do I make something like the standard 'Born ... in ....' on the main tab? While I'm posting, I should probably also ask how I then get t...

Thanks for the quick response.

William

With diagrams it is possible to choose who shows and who doesn't by clicking the little buttons - a highly technical explanation, but you know what I mean.

Is it possible to generate narrative reports that include and exclude individuals in the same sort of way?

Thanks!
William

ID:4821

I'm a fairly new FH user...but what I do is use the 'Name' box for: Census: Waite E, 1851, Moorby, HO107/2108 And in the 'text from source' box I put Moorby Elizabeth Waite, head, widow, 75, ag lab widow, Thimbleby, Lincs Eliza Dawson, granddaur, 9, Sleaford, Lincs William Carter, grandson, mar, 27,...

Hi Jon,
thanks for pointing those out - have voted accordingly.

Dear All, I've got flags to indicate that I have a census entry for a given year. They work with icons very nicely on diagrams. I also know how to create a custom fact called, say, 'census' and how to adapt the resulting sentence output. Is it possible to reference the flags and change the sentence ...

Hi Jane,
thanks - and what you say makes a lot of sense!

Kind regards,
William

Hi [smile]
A quick question this time:
Is it possible for the marriage record to be shown in the husband's box as well as the wife's?

Thanks!
William

ID:4288

Thanks for that Jane!

I'm sure I'll be back with more questions!

Kind regards,
William

I've successfully added a birth certificate as a source by following the very helpful tutorial. I now want to add a marriage certificate...but it seems to me that if I do it the same way then I will have to do it separately for each individual. Is it possible to set it up as a family source?? I coul...

Thanks for all your help on this - Jon's suggestion of not navigating the folders and just pasting in the relevant folder structure worked a treat.

Thanks again!
William[smile]

Hi Helen, thanks for your reply...much appreciated! I've found a folder called: C:Program FilesFamily HistorianProperty Box which contains 11 files one of which is PB-INDI. None of the 11 files contain the names of the 4 customised tabs which I've made. To my inexperienced eye, the 11 files look as ...

Having set up a customised tab (4 of them actually), I've decided that the names are too long...how do I edit the names???

Thanks!
William

ID:4259

Hi All, I have just uploaded my New Year offering of icons in .bmp format – I hope they’re of use to someone. I have used Jane’s census tags and BMD tags to make my own versions. I don’t think I used anyone else’s icons to develop my own...apologies if I did and haven't acknowledged you...no offence...

Hi Maggie,

thanks for the reply...and I am just starting out with FH4 and so am making some daft mistakes as I go!

I'm not quite sure what I was doing wrong - it may well have been what you suggested...but I started from scratch and it's working nicely now.

Thanks again!
Kind regards,
William

Hi - thanks for taking the time to read this! I'm trying to construct a 'blank' flag - to be used only when I want to leave a gap between icons on a diagram. I've made a plain white .bmp file of the correct size and made a flag which ought to make it appear (though it will be transparent) so that al...

Thanks Peter!
Hopefully I'll have time to try this over the next couple of days!

William

I'm a novice with FH4 - and I want to try my first query.
I've set up a flag called 'Direct' and want to find all individuals who have that flag AND have an entry under the 'Notes' tab.

Could somebody tell me how to set about it??

Thanks!
William

ID:4123

I use streamline - very reliable!

I have made a 'direct' flag to identify all the direct ancestors of my children.
Is it possible to use this flag to identify which are the direct ancestors on the Focus Window?...in the 1700s I sometimes forget who is who and lose myself in strange branches

Thanks!
William

ID:4092

Ahhhh - you can tell I'm a newbie to FH4, can't you!

Thanks for the quick reply!

William

I've made my own Fact using the {spouse/her/him} code. When I generate an Individual Narrative Report it doesn't insert any appropriate text - just the '{spouse/her/him}' instead. So a sentence reads 'She is listed without {spouse/her/him} in the census in 1911 in Lincoln'. Have I made an error some...

Thanks Jane!
Your reply will at least stop me searching through preferences and options for the next few days!

William

Hi! I'm a new member of the forum - have been trying out FH4 with the free trial and liked it so much that I've decided to make the switch from FTM2006. I'm starting to find my way around reasonably well but two things are defeating me at the moment: 1) I'd like to remove the 'Text from source: ' wh...