Family Historian User Group

I have been a FH user for many years, having started with v2, and have just upgraded from v5 to v6 by means of the upgrade download. As soon as I had installed the v6 download, I received an Exception Report, which is something I haven't come across before. There were about 25 items listed, all expr...

Thanks Mike, that's all very useful. I think I'm ok with my FH transfer as I haven't customised any settings etc but I will certainly follow your advice for Ancestral Sources. I did try using Windows Easy Transfer but there seem to be some problems with it on Win 8.1 so I resorted to the copy functi...

I have been using FH (v 5.0.11) and AS (v 4.0.1) for several years on my netbook (running Windows XP). I have recently bought a new laptop with Win 8.1 and have successfully moved my FH project to the new computer. In order to continue using AS, do I simply have to install it on my new laptop or are...

Lizzie, Why not make the source title, multimedia object title AND the file name all the same. I usually save the file first (eg a JPG screen capture or download from Ancestry) with the title I want, at the same time copying the file title to the clipboard. Then when I create the source title I can...

You can use a plugin to change them. I have done a very quick one which is below. PLEASE Check what it does to your data very carefully and use the Edit>undo option if it's not what you want. Set Source Media Titles to Source Title.fh_lua Thank you Jane, I'll give it a try over the weekend. I'm new...

I have been using AS for my census, baptism and marriage records for some considerable time. I have just realised that I may not have been consistent when choosing titles for the resulting multimedia objects. My preference is for the title to match the source title, whereas I have some which match t...