Family Historian User Group

I backup AS Options, Census Templates and AutoText every few months. My operating system just failed and needed a refresh so all programs, etc were lost. After reinstalling, I loaded each of the three backups and all were back to the way they were before the failure.

I've not seen anything about anybody generating a 1921 template yet although I'm sure somebody will - that said, it is pretty easy to generate one yourself.

Just to add to Robert's post, I have been using Win 11 Pro for about a month now with FH, Ancestral Sources and GedSite - no problems encountered.

Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but where I have a child who died under the age of one I enter the Months / days (as appropriate) in the Age field on the Death fact, or select "Infant" or, for one one sad case, "Stillborn"

The Tools / Customise option gives you a choice of a number of colour schemes.

Same as me!. Might be worth playing around with a couple of the other fonts - although, for my setup, I haven't so far found anything that is better than Tahoma. Otherwise, can only suggest wating and seeing if others have alternate suggestions. Sorry!

I recently also moved to a new laptop and did not have this type of problem. What are your settings in AS Tools / Customise, particularly Font?. If your FH display is okay then it implies overall Windows display Options (viz. Resolution, Scale, etc) are okay

Have you checked the "Normal Time" setting on these facts?. I believe these need to be set to "Post Death" to appear after other facts - this is the setting I have on my "Medal (Posthumous)" fact and it auto appears after the Death fact.

I have used Anecdote facts quite a bit over the years and have the story / comment in the Notes field. Just as Jane suggests, I have the sentence for the fact set to only show this note both within FH and in the application I use for generating my website.

You have to use the main Download page at https://www.family-historian.co.uk/install7

I am like you in that I may well start off with a GRO Quarter date and will then amend it later if I get a more precise date (Death Certificate / Probate record, etc), and will cite both sources in the single Death fact. I would agree with your second paragraph that if the two separate facts are ind...

A quarter date is effectively recorded in the underlying Gedcom file as "from ... to ..." - have you tried putting in a Sort Date on the Registration fact?. I use this regularly where I have this sort issue with two facts.

Taking again, Birth as an example, I normally only have one Birth fact and will cite multiple Source records as required. If the Birth "story" get too complex then I will add a Note to that Birth fact and explain what I have done / guessed and my reasoning, cross referring to those Source records as...

An update re the Spellcheck problem. I received an email overnight from CP advising that the issue had been fixed and giving me an option to download the pre-release version 7.0.8 . I have done that and can confirm that the issue has been resolved - viz. installing the update did not reset the custo...

Evelyn - I use the Clone plugin to create copies of Source records, in particular ones such as Grant of Probate, which I don't capture via Ancestral Sources - using the Clone plugin ensures I maintain consistent layout / wording in these types of source records.

I'm not aware of any "flag" or similar. I use the AS Autotext option to record information in the FH Text From Source field, so once I have input all data in AS I add something to that text before saving the record. Later (if I remember!), I usually add a comment to the Birth or Baptism fact within ...

As I said in my earlier response, you can achieve this automatically by modifying the templates. Yes, it's a "hit" on your time to start with (by having to change the main templates - took me about 30 minutes to change all the English & Welsh ones) but after that you don't have to remember to go bac...

I'm not aware of any way to extract the text directly from the Text in Source, but I have modified the AS templates such that my sentences now show, for example, "..... at Farm House in Henley, Somerset, England. Relationship to Head of Family: Head, Marital Status: Married, Occupation: Farmer 20 Ac...

If you use the fourth tab "Further Info", you can add as many informants as you like by using the "Association" functionality.

Thanks Mike - I use that as well but only on a weekly basis (if I remember!)

Thanks Mark - should have thought of my backup as well!. That Program Data folder is auto backed up to the "cloud" each day with my Documents, Photos, etc., but I might well have a look at a separate batch file that I can run prior to installing updates in future.

CP (Martin) have responded "Thank you for reporting that. We have confirmed that you are quite right. We will fix this in the next upgrade. I have made a note to contact you when the update is available. "

Thanks Lorna. I had a feeling it was happening in earlier versions, but as it wasn't something I was overly using I didn't really check in to it. I'll flag it up with CP.

Not sure if I'm missing a setting here or not, but it seems to me that the "spellcheck" dictionary is being reset each time a new version of FH is installed (I'm on 7.07). I don't make great use of the process but in various Note fields I know I have used the "Ignore Spelling" option for a number of...

Nick will probably come back with further details, but I find if I start to type the Place Name then AS will auto fill it in if it finds a matching Place record in FH. For addresses, the dropdown list has a list of addresses associated with that Place (make sure you have the Church icon unticked!), ...