Family Historian User Group

Peter - I must be missing something or having a senior moment but I now have the very latest Irfanview and all the current plug-ins but I do not seem to be able to do as you say. Yes, it can convert multiple jpgs into a pdf but not break a pdf into multiple jpg or any picture format which is what is...

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Thanks. That is not in 4.25 but I can update Irfanview and try it

Thanks Mike - I can easily create my own books if necessary using multiple FH reports (which will be pdf) interspersed with my other pdf documents, contents pages etc, now I know what can & cannot be done.
Thanks for all help

What Version of IrfanView are you using as Ver 4.25 has no Multipage Images under Options

I have IrfanView Ver 4.25 but can find no way of doing what you suggest. Can you give any more detail

I think whilst FH save files in pdf it does not appear to be able in import a pdf into a report or book. The problem I have is that the documents are up to 20 pages each which I would have to print, scan, save as jpg and add every page to Media records before adding to report or book. Possible but t...

A further question regarding reports or more specifically Books. When producing a book is it possible to incorporate pdf & word files as I have a number of records such service records and letters that I want to incorporate into the section regarding an individuals history. Otherwise each Book just ...

Understood, but I doubt if the old data could be transferred to FH or anything else current so eventually would be obsolete. In fact I know that small databases I wrote in Access more than 20 years ago (using Access Basic) would not run correctly on later versions of Access as I believe it changed t...

I thought about individual reports but considered it better if I could get related people grouped together where possible. It also helps if you want reports with full indexes. I am currently running draft reports which I read through and edit where necessary. I also use the note boxes and generally ...

Thanks, I will copy all this advise and I am sure I can work something out. Yes it is a tremendous task just sorting out what reports are need to avoid too much duplication and make sure all the interesting people are included. Breaking it down into manageable chunks is the answer but Record Ids are...

Thanks. I should be able to sort what I want from all these options. The point of it is to be able to print all my data into volumes and chapters of reports with diagrams to match. one volume for each side of my family with chapters giving reports of various trees of ancestors and descendants. If th...

Thanks. I presume that to get a simple index of individual names and record ids it is manual editing task of saving the report in rtf and abstracting and editing the index to create a contents sheet.

This must have been asked before but I cannot find a topic. Is there an option to include record IDs of individuals in reports and diagrams to make it easy to index & find a report for an individual when that person is located in a diagram. With many individuals with the same or similar names it wou...

I do have that correct, otherwise the children are not in the correct order either. I have ancestors that add illegitimate children, then got married, then widowed, had more illegitimate children, some with and some without fathers names and then married again to another person. A real mess! Thanks ...

Thanks, simple really. I had not thought of that. Next time I need it I will do it that way. Up till now I have created the un-named person, created the illegitimate child and then deleted the un-named person. Achieved the same but messy.
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Yes I know you can add an un-named father but if the child is added before a marriage it does not need to show un-named father and it stays that way after a marriage. It is a pity that FH cannot give an option to provide consistency for illegitimate children with no father named.

When I find that a wife had an illegitimate child before her marriage, is there a way of adding that child without having to add an un-named spouse. The child can be added easily if done before her marriage but I cannot see how to do it once a spouse exists. The same applies if a widow has a child w...

Thanks David - works fine now

Thanks, but whilst David's expression works OK, for some reason Mike's returns an error that it is not a valid function or parameters entered wrongly.
I am missing something or might there be a small typo in Mikes expression.
Thanks - Phil

I wish to find all the individuals that have had more than 1 partner. As I am not an expert query writer is there anything readily available as an add on or guidance on columns, rows & functions to use
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I have a similar problem, but it seems to only occur when the illegitimate children are added after the mother is already entered with a husband the system needs a spouse as children cannot be added to a single parent. However if the parent is added after the child, by working backwards from a singl...

Thanks Mike - sorted

I may be having a senior moment but am wanting to add the Record Id field into a query but cannot find it in the list.

The narrative descendants by generation report is good but to avoid repetition of people and to break my tree into manageable pieces I want to experiment with one or two generations at a time. However, if I set the options for say 2 generations the report also always shows the children of the second...