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Websites will be a bit further down the road for me. As I said earlier I am just looking to put up some basic information for some of my relatives to have a look at. Thanks very much for the suggestions though, I will keep them in mind for later, once I complete the re-do of my tree. Hopefully in FH...

Thanks Lorna, It is actually my step-sister, I had never noticed that FH said No Direct Relationship until today. I was sure FTM did say step-sister and actually imported my tree back into it just to check I was right before I posted my question. I thought I was maybe missing something. Thanks again

Quick question, should FH6 show a stepsister as a relation to the root person?

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I have no intention of leaving FH, I was really only saying I didn't know what I would be doing with my tree in the future especially re putting it online. I picked the three sites because they all looked different and I presumed they were built in a different way. I have said a few times before I c...

Mike I know GEDCOM upload doesn't make a navigable website, Unless of course you go down the Ancestry etc route. I haven't decided how I will finally keep my tree online or if I will. I may have a website similar to yours, Jane's or Colin's, I may decide FH is not the way to go and change to FTM or ...

Mike I asked for recommendations and then asked what was the best way to upload the information (GEDCOM) or was there an easier way. Your answer pretty much answers my question. I'll have a look at ZoomPast and then do it once including media for those who have helped so far. Hopefully I will have g...

Mike I pretty much knew about all of the options (although hadn't heard of Zoompast), I was looking for advice on what ones were best/easiest from peoples experience of using them. I just want the information there so that some of my relatives can look at their family using their tablet, laptop or p...

Hi all, I have been contacting quite a few family members lately to ask for family information for my tree. Many of then have been great about passing on the information and even finding other information I never asked for and lots have been really interested in seeing the information I have. I have...

Agreed Mike, I don't use the same passwords anywhere, either. I was more annoyed that MyHeritage hadn't notified me, a simple email with a link to their notification would have been all that is required. There are many out there who do use the same password and not too strong either and as Salted SH...

Hi all, I have just visited this site (which I do every few months) https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and found out my email address has been compromised. The thing that annoyed me was that it was MyHeritage that were the culprits and they have never notified me. MyHeritage: In October 2017, the genealogy...

I take from what is said Mike, that looking at someone who is born 1800 but has no Died date looks to be still alive and over 200yrs old. Is there a way to find people who are still living, I presume to mark them as not living. I asked a similar question many months ago because in FTM I had been tol...

Another 2 options are Paintshop Pro and Photoshop Elements, you can download trial versions before you commit to a purchase if GowerMicks suggestion of GIMP2 is not for you. I can't give any advice as I haven't used any of these for many years and as with most software like this they can become bloa...

I only use 2 forums and both of them you have to request to be notified. Before I found this option was a thing I just looked back at questions I had asked or replied too (not many so not an issue), then I realised the forum gave indications as to where new post had been put up (Page icons at side o...

When I sent my laptop for repair, I did a factory reset of my computer using the setting to reformat the drive. It took a little longer but that way anything left on my laptop would have been well deleted and someone would have to be very determined to find any fragments that may have survived. I wo...

Lorna - Makes perfect sense when you describe it that way Thanks

Mike- Thanks for that, works perfectly

Sorry Mike I didn't mean the orientation didn't work in all relatives I meant moving up and down the trees with the direction arrows didn't work. If you start at yourself say and move up the tree it doesn't stay with your family (paternal) and then when you try to come back down it can get trapped i...

The Ancestors Diagram works perfectly once I change the orientation run Right-Left (Bit counter intuitive, as I would call this Left-Right :roll: ). I only realised I could do this reading a computer magazine today, so someone obviously knew I was going to ask this question and helpfully wrote an ar...

Peter Does that mean no there isn't a way to do it in FH? FTM has the same restrictions of how many generations are shown on screen (up to 5), it just moves to the next generation up if you keep pressing the right arrow. I am hoping there is a way to do it although with no answers so far I am not ho...

Hi I have just noticed this and don't know why I haven't noticed it before as I used to use this feature all the time when I used FTM. When I have my family tree in Ancestors (Pedigree view) in the Focus Window I can't move about the tree using the arrow keys, yes I can move about what is on the scr...

Mike That's the same with everything. Remember when the Internet was like lightening when broadband first came out, then dial up pretty much disappeared and the Internet Web pages became filled with pictures, videos and adverts. Internet pages took longer to load until fibre appeared, now we have st...

How many people have freely chosen to move to Windows 10? Microsoft has the muscle to get it as the default OS on new laptops, and it withdraws support for the old OS Me for one, I like Windows 10 and have to say I find it the best OS I have used. How many other operating systems write drivers for ...

Gowermick How's Windows 3 and Family Historian V1 coming along for you? Surely the world advances and software along with it probably the reason you are using FH6.2.7 and Windows 10 and not a quill and parchment. What would you do if FH went down the ribbon route (which works very well if you give i...

Cheers Colin

Cheers Mike I will have a look the Knowledge Base

Two last questions- 1 I take it you mean Mike's plugin and not Jane's? 2 Does the plug in back up the plugins that I have installed or should I keep a note of them separately? And thanks for the advice Helen. Maybe CP should do away with the need for these plugins by adding it as an option in the pr...