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Hello Mike, Your reply was very interesting. From what you said, Ancestral Sources is purely a data input aid. So if I don't need to convert my existing facts for Ancestral Sources will there be any problems with reference to say other 'plugins'? I only mentioned census facts as I didn't want to get...

Hello readers,
I have now decided to use Ancestral Sources but what about converting existing facts to Ancestral Sources format.
Can this be done without inputting all the data again?
Genie15

Hello Mike & David, This is more complicated for me than I thought it was when all I did was downloaded Census events. But I will over come it. Mike, you have made it much clearer. The Sentence wasn't shown on my screen, I was by my mistake referring to the 'title' of the facts list in the Individua...

Hello Mike, The sentence construction was copied from the topic 'Family Historian Census Event for UK 1939 Register'. See Details third paragraph. What should the sentence be? The name Albert Kain is the name of the record in I have mislead you as that was his birth. I should have as per my last com...

Hello readers, Problem with Census events to what is showing in the Individual View. Previously I had ie. Son appeared in the census of Albert Kain. Now I have Son census of Albert Kain. Presumably the text in the Census fact Sentence Template is not correct this is what I copied from Family Histori...

Hello Mike, Sorry, didn't answer your questions. I ran Uncategorised data from Tools. Viewed the information on Records Window with the Named Panes Lists showing. Clicking on the relevant list showed the * star bullet point. That data was from a GED.com file. Presumably when I merged the files a few...

Hello Mike, If I went to the tab All and deleted the UDF, the record itself got deleted. I've cleared the UDF data problem. I exported the record in question to a new GED file. In a word-processor I deleted the group of data causing the problem. Then imported to a new project and checked the data. A...

Hello Mike, The data I believe originated from importing a gedcom file from The Master Genealogist. Meanwhile will try to move the data somehow as it is required. But, having trouble understanding the Handling Uncategorised Data Fields info sheet. Also your reply mentioned 'National Identity No.' At...

Hello readers,
I have some uncategorised data in two records.
How is the best way to modify as the data is required but as a 'Custom Id' with Gedcom labels of DATE, PLAC, SOUR, PAGE and NOTE.
Many thanks.

Hello Ron,
There is another way.
On the Family Historian program menu click on TOOLS, then Plugins, at the bottom of that pop-up click on Plugin Store.
Genie 15

Hello Mike, Pleased about your reply. Explains a lot more then FH help. Very useful. With the New Gedcom file etc. I was looking at the help file. But after sending the thread I looked again at the menu and I had to click on Gedcom File Tasks to get the New Gedcom file etc. Which is not clear on the...

Hello Jane, Thank you for the prompt reply. I have looked and they are in different folders. ie different file. My confusion was thinking they were the same files as no directory was shown. But also one file is a GEDcom file whilst the other file is the project backup file. So believing that I was u...

Hello Family Historian users, I load a file today using File menu, then Gedcom files tasks and selected the file Additional Kain.GED. But the work I did yesterday was not there. Clicking Gedcom files tasks there were two Additional Kain.GED files one below the other. But no directory source. I click...

I also had problems with the Records Window - Individual - From Year To Year. With the threads of 2015 it helped a bit. Used dates either side of the birth date (1888 and 1890) for someone born 1888. But then I sorted the birth dates in descending order and much clearer to find a person when born. G...

It's me again.
It was the Tutorials I was after.
So sorry.

Has FHUG Knowledge Base changed?
A few days ago I clicked on Knowledge Base and went to a list of How To topics.
Now the best I can get is Knowledge Base Index.
Have I forgotten something.

Thank you Jane.
Grey matter playing up again.

Hello readers, I've downloaded FHUG icon pack. In my plugins list it is named as Install FHUG Icon Packs. I run the plugin and it opens File Explorer! The instructions says it will prompt for a zip file and create a subfolder in the FH icon folder with the same name as the zip file etc. Am I suppose...

Thank you both for solving my problem and giving me other ideas.
When one doesn't know how, it's frustrating and annoying.
I can have my dinner now.
Thank you.
Genie15

Hello Lorna, No it's from a saved diagram. I thought I had seen something some time ago. I tried it, and although opening a saved diagram it fills the screen with black blobs (Large family tree) I can just discern the blue rectangle of the selected person. Many thanks, you have saved me a lot of fru...

Hi readers, In checking my data I would view a diagram of the appropriate family and work through the persons. Later close the program. The diagram gets closed but I can make the focused person the root file person so when I open the program again I'm at the focus person I last worked on. But I have...

Hello,
I carried out the instructions in how_to:family_historian_installation_problems#errorfamily_historian_stopped_working|> Error: Family Historian Stopped Working.
And no Program Stopped message for last two hours.
Thank you.

Hello all, I'm having the same problem 'Program Stopped Working'. It's has only started recently. That is in the last two weeks with program stopped about two or three times a day. Can't remember when I up dated to 6.2.5. But, could that be the problem. I don't have any clouds. Also I'm switching be...

Thank you for that Mike.
Although what I wanted is what you say cannot be done, which is assign an Alternate Name to a Fact.
The person in question has different surnames in two different census and as yet cannot determine which is her birth name.
Many thanks though.

I’m not sure how to explain this but, here goes. I have person in a census with a particular name (A). But in another census they are called (B). In the property box census facts can be added and on the main tab different names can be assigned to the same person. But how can these alternative names ...