Family Historian User Group

Thanks again Lorna, I will experiment and try your method tomorrow.

Thanks Colin, I'll check it out.

In my defence it is hard to follow step by step instructions for this: FH4 Auto SC.jpg When what you are faced with this: FH6 Auto SC.PNG particularly when I am feeling my way and trying to learn. Please bear in mind Mike that you understand FH and what is under the bonnet, what is obvious for you i...

Thanks Mike and Mark,
Started reading the FH V5 Manual Chapter 12, it seems to be describing a different Automatic Citations panel to the one in FH 6.2.7 ??
Moving over to FHUG KB and see if I can follow that!

Thanks Lorna. I have manually added most of the data from certificates etc, but perhaps not as rigorously as AS would prompt me to do it. I will explore the FH manual approach, that way I will hopefully learn a bit about the options and results. You'd think I had just started using FH, I started wit...

I guess I am confused!
As I said I have never used it, just relied on text comments and images/document links.
I will have to read the Sources section of FH manual and see how I can modify my data.

Unsure if this Section or Ancestral Sources was the place for this question, please move if better there. Reading some of the posts I have found out that I have not been using the 'Sources' features of FH at all :shock: and so it seems I now need to learn AS, remove my Certificate links to individua...

Mikes (!) As I have worked backwards from myself through known ancestors I am as confident as I can be that up to 5x grandfather is correct, it is just beyond that I want to change. The unlinking process is between him and his wrong parents and then re-linking his correct(!) parents, does that clari...

Thanks Mike that seems a neat way to do it. I will keep the original data, it maybe useful in the future if more information comes to light. I think I have said before I use FH as my only data repository. And of course I can't be certain that I am making the correct choice, it just seems more likely...

I have found that with recent research what I think is a better match for a 5 times grandfather. I have added him to FH along with his wife and some of his ancestors, a new part tree. I would now like to replace 5x grandfather with this new data, what would be the best way? I thought it might be pos...

I guessed that it wouldn't have been an original thought ! I have quickly read the posts and the Query solution seems closest to what I had envisaged. I had imagined (in my perfect world ;) ) the historical events would be visible on an Individuals Facts tab as a Timeline Fact that could be selected...

I was reading a fact based Historical Novel recently and it occurred to me that some important national/local events that I reading about were taking place in the very same years as the relatives I was researching. It seemed to add some context to my dry facts. I wondered if there was in any merit i...

Going from 'Medium' to 'Big' makes a huge difference, thanks.
That's great, now PDFs open without a fuss, thank again!

I have now tried the Open Editor Player process which works well. Not sure if it my high res screen (3840 x 2160), or my failing eyesight, but the little line of icons it is in is very small, thank goodness there are tooltips! :) Yes I can see it would be a big development ask to add the viewing fea...

Thanks Mike.
I will try the Open in Editor/Player action, that should work for me.
However I was a bit surprised knowing that FH could generate PDFs that it couldn't 'automatically' read them, maybe an enhancement that could be added?

Some of my Media are pdf files and they are linked to Individuals and Families in the usual way. They show as pdf icons but do not open within FH. Is this because I have to action a setting or just the way it is? I do have both Acrobat and Reader on the same PC so if they could be triggered if neces...

I have now added a 'big' red question mark to my pictures folder and using it as marker for my provisional records, it shows really well. Using your idea Gowermick, I can see all sorts of useful symbols that could be used.

Yes, the timeline facts is very useful, I try to remember using it when adding a new entry

Thanks, that's a clever idea.
I am surprised that for such a very good and extensive package FH hasn't got something like that built in!

Is there a way of putting a strong visual marker on an individual who has been provisionally added to a family?
Ideally it should show in the Focus Window and be more noticeable than text!

I will have a think and try and create some real value examples, however my motivation was to try use dates to help me sift through possible family members to determine the best match, using the FH software as a tool as well as a data record. I am trying to do avoid storing information anywhere but ...

This thread has seemed to have gone in a direction I wasn't expecting! :o My example of a 40 year old father was only to highlight a 'fact' that could be worth investigating. Yes older men do have children and yes the ages and age gaps can be manually calculated, but why should I calculate when the ...

Has anybody else found this a problem? When researching for possible relatives that pre-date UK national records, it seems that I have to weigh up: The event. The event date. The known names. The place. And as back then it was very common for First names to repeated over several generations, especia...

I have used that method many times before but for some reason this time I was trying to find a 'download' action from this page?? https://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=plugins:help:ancestral_sources_data_entry:ancestral_sources_data_entry And of course not finding it, it's just plugin description...

Yes Mike I thought that was the case. I have AS but I can't find the plugin to add to my collection!