Family Historian User Group

OK, I think I should have said at the outset that at present I only store very basic information in Family Historian: Name, Sex, year of birth, year of any marriage and year of death. I have also, once or twice, stored an image. I use the notes field to indicate where my research is on hold pending ...

Further update, have now found 'untick most commonly used ..'

Update! I have found the property box 'cog' menu, but still no clue yet re 'facts'. Sorry for being dense ...

Thanks Mike, You've lost me completely here but that will be entirely down to my ignorance. I'm with you about notes and media and that they are not likely to help me. Dunno what a Property Box 'cog' menu is but will have a look to see if I can figure it out and whether it gives me a better way of d...

Hi, I'm in the process of adding some of my relatives to the Lost Cousins website and finding it difficult to keep track of who I have added and who I haven't. I also need to know who I have considered adding, but cannot (often because they were not alive at the relevant date, but it might be becaus...

Hi, I have searched for 'DNA' and read lots of posts that I didn't fully understand. I have limited knowledge of how FH works. I just want to know how best to record which people in my projects I have a DNA match with. It would also be helpful to be able to record which site(s) their DNA is on and t...

... Aha! I think maybe I have to type the 'Xxxx or Yyyy' between the // characters?? Is that right? Anyway, this is working, so looking good! It is now treating the whole string as the surname, which is what I wanted. (I did try searching the Knowledge Base for 'alternative surnames' but that didn't...

Hi, I am currently researching a family where the surname at birth of several family members is uncertain as the family seemed to use two variants interchangeably and I have yet to find the birth records for all of them. I usually assign someone their surname at birth, where it is known. In this cas...

That's great, thank you both! I did try at least one of these methods earlier but was scared off by the 'are you sure?!' message. Now that I am sure it is not so scary. I have learned two things. Firstly, that it is best to delete a child from the family rather than in isolation as that also zaps an...

Hi, I am fairly new to Family Historian so please forgive my ignorance. I am sure this must be straightforward but I can't seem to find any help for it so maybe I am phrasing the question incorrectly? The scenario is that I have added an extra child, having been misled by the IGI, which showed two b...

Hi Mike, I only saw your reply after posting my last one! I have now been able to reorder the relationships so that the 'fatherless' children are in the correct place on their mother's focus screen. So, again, that's a big step forward. :D So many thanks to you, Mike, and also to Jim for helping me ...

OK, firstly the re-order seems to have worked inasmuch as the majority of children and marriages are now in the right order and as that was my main issue that's a big step forward! :D In the case of the children born prior to any marriage, however, they are still shown after both of the mother's mar...

Thanks Jim, I'll give 'Reorder out of sequence data' a go. I guess things can only get better :D and I can always re-import if not! As for the missing relationships, they were there in TMG last time I looked, but TMG has been crashing on me recently so it wouldn't be a huge surprise if the data is c...

Hi, I'm new here so firstly, hello! I have downloaded a free trial of FH (Version 6.0.4) and imported a TMG (Version 7) project. I find that all the people are displayed in reference number order rather than in date order - so a couple's children are not listed in birth order but in the order I orig...