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Many thanks to Mick, Mike and Helen for your prompt replies! Mick : I'd not realised that Ancestry would charge Calico for providing hints: I thought their business model would be to attract subscriptions from as many sources as possible. Mike: Yes, I'm starting to look at the plugins for FamilySear...

FH can provide Internet Data Match hints from FindMyPast and MyHeritage which I find very helpful, but other family history products provide matches with Ancestry and FamilySearch. Hints from FS, in particular, would be very welcome as it's a free to use.

I'm using FH 6.2.7

thanks,
Simonides

Many thanks to Jane, Lorna and Mike for so much fantastic advice in such a short time. I'll be looking through the links and come back to you if any more questions.

Simonides

I've some census screenshots and also a digital image of a family gravestone with multiple individial names that I'd like to add to FH6. Each includes several members of the family. I was planning to add as a media item to each individual's entry in FH6 but wondered if that's the recommended and mos...

Thanks Jane and Mike for your suggestions also when the Backup on exit shows the Enter Backup File Name dialogue, you can Delete any old Backup files, before you Save the current Backup file, and that avoids using File Explorer separately. - Good tip, I'd not realised that! Simonides

As FH6 does a backup on exit, I've now accumulated a large number of backup files. Rather than accessing the data folder with File Explorer, and manually deleting the old backup files occasionally, is there a facility to housekeep automatically, eg, to keep the last three backups and purge the older...

Thanks to Mike, Arthur and Jane - I now have a slightly simplified version of this working now, and can start to look at other aspects of FH (and perhaps even move forward on my research!) I must say I'm very grateful to this wonderfully supportive and patient user community.

Thanks, Jim: good suggestion!

Use CTRL-Enter to add new lines in the Auto-note box. thank you! I've now created a Research Tab Research tab.jpg but am unsure how to complete this little project by creating a query to list the To Do items. The Knowledge Base item for Create Custom Queries suggests to use expressions such as: Ent...

Mike and Arthur, you've both kindly provided a screen shot showing an Auto Create Note in the Fact Definition, Advanced Features Box of Notes Page: BMD: Census: but I'm unclear where or how these are specified. I tried just typing it in, but can only enter the first line so I guess that's the wrong ...

You can only have two items on a Row, but if you return to the Tab list you can add as may rows of "items" as you want. yes, that's what I though. Perhaps Arthur was just referring to the Notes tab that's already there. I've created the input mechanism. Tomorrow, I'll look at how to list those to-d...

Arthur - I've created a Research tab for the property box, with two items - Research, and To Do. You say yours included General Notes as a third item, but I could not see how to have more than two items, could you clarify please? Edit custom item.jpg As example: The research tab.jpg Is this correct?

Jane wrote:To get them on the Add Fact button, go back to Fact Types, Edit your new Fact type and tick the "Fast Add Menu" option.

Thanks, good tip!

Jane wrote: It's also possible to set up a Tab for your To Do notes in Property Box Customisation.

I'll look at this, thanks again!

Arthur, I'm trying to replicate what you did as it sounds useful. You stated that you "created two new fact types - Research and To Do. These consist of Notes only." so I followed the instructions: In ƒh V6 use Tools > Fact Types or in ƒh V5 use Tools > Work with Fact Sets and click the New button: ...

thanks again, Mike for your help.

all the best
Simonides

Steve , thanks so much for your suggestion to look at ScionPC. I had some initial issues in that it can only read ANSI gedcom files but was able to save the UTF8 gedcom with Notepad in ANSI format and read it ok (do I lose anything with ANSI rather than UTF8? Why does FH use UTF8, if it's not stand...

wow, Arthurk, that looks complicated! I'll look at it first thing tomorrow after a strong coffee, when my brain's working a bit faster!

thanks for the quick reply

Simonides

David , your suggestion works just fine. Exactly what I wanted. Mike Tate , thanks for the additional information which I'll work through in detail. I particularly valued the tip "Did you know you can search the Ancestry (and FindMyPast) database at home for free, to identify likely matching record...

I keep thinking of bits of research I need to do. It would be great to have a way to note these, perhaps in an individual's property box, and then be able to run a report with all the to-dos listed. Does this tool exist? Or would it be a request for a future enhancement?

thanks, Simonides

I found that my local library has Ancestry library membership. As their PCs are very tied down and limited in running programs etc. I'd like to bring along an extract of my family historian data in pdf format, eg a few lines or a page for each person, with dates, relationships and other notes I've d...

Thanks Victor, I'll take a look. I've also found this site useful : https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/

Thanks so much for all your valuable suggestions. Adrian - re. "you need to be wary of the difference between historical records and other people's trees " Yes, good point, well made. I'll take great care of that one! Mike T - thanks in particular for providing the links for advice for newcomers, I'...

I'm new to Family Historian (and still wet behind the ears on family history research!) but have just installed FH6 and wondering what online service would be best given to use given that my mother is Danish and my father is English so my research will span both countries. I see from the documentati...

I just purchased the FH6 CD ROM from S&N via Amazon.uk and installed it as v 6.2.2 It immediately recommended upgrading to 6.2.6. I accepted this but it hung for a long time on a window saying "Downloading Update." I tried a couple of other times on different PCs in the house but it only upgraded co...