Family Historian User Group

I agree with Lorna FMP appear to have a better transcription than Ancestry. One area I have not yet checked on FMP is missing pages. On Ancestry I have found a number of missing pages which I suspect is due to poor quality images (I have copies of some of the pages I have found to be missing and som...

The situation in Scotland is slightly more complex as you can either have the official "extract of an entry in the register of ..." aka certificate or either your personal transcription of the entry from a visit to GROS/ScotlandsPeople or downloaded image from ScotlandsPeople. The official extract i...

Is there not a difference between the download and retail versions? I have the retail version and it does not ask for a name only the registration key. You could try installing from the CD and see if that works.

Eric

I managed to do it the brute force way by editing the Plugins.fhdata file. You need to alter the number 'N' at the end of the [PluginN] line to bring the list of plugins into order.

Eric

Argh simple solution. What I had not noticed was when I had downloaded the plugins there was already a downloaded plugin of that name in the downloads directory and Chrome had renamed the new download as filename (n).fh_lua . Deleting the old download and renaming the new one without the (n) cured t...

Windows Version - Windows 7 Professional 64 bit service pack 1 Version 5.09 is installed After the message the plugin is still listed in the Tools>Plugins window and runs but the Add To Tools box is not ticked The plugin is listed in the C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Plugins\ folder I h...

Hi Having a problem making some plugins stay on the tools menu after exiting and restarting Family Historian. After the restart I get a "Plugin Not Found" message, this does not happen after I add the plugin to the tools menu and prior to the restart. The procedure I have been using is Tools Menu - ...