Family Historian User Group

Thanks again, Mike. I think my last post was a bit too abbreviated. My intention was to form a couple of subsets of the complete data base, excluding my own descendants, and to export these as GEDCOMs. I hadn't quite thought through how I would deal with living people of my own generation or older w...

Thank you, Mike. I would expect to have to save one version of the query for each sub-set I want to create, but as far as I can see I'm not being given the chance to save the parameters (essentially, just the ID of the root person I want for each sub-set), and I'm being asked for the parameter each ...

Thanks to all for the help - problem solved. However, I'm now getting more ambitious and finding some more things I don't understand, despite reading the book. I'd be grateful for some more guidance. In particular, I would like to be able to keep updating my complete data set, but to have a way of p...

Hi Tim and Lorna,

Many thanks for both your helpful replies. I'm familiar with queries in Excel and Access, so I imagine I can follow your guidance and get a result in FH - my project for this weekend! I'll post again if I get stuck.

Mike (Altair)

I am trying to find a living relative who should share my Y-DNA. It would be a great help if I could routinely call up a filtered version of my earliest male-line ancestor's Descendants Diagram that showed only his male-line descendants. Trying to do this would take me well outside my comfort zone w...