Family Historian User Group

At the risk of getting into trouble with Tatewise (!), I'm going to post this seemingly basic question because I can't find an answer to it online, and the FH software is anything but intuitive in the Book production department! I like the "Ancestors by Generation" and "Descendants by Generation" re...

I believe this a known problem and has already been recorded as an issue. I too have this frustration. A trick is to always leave one Hint as New then you can still get to see what you have Accepted or Rejected . Not perfect but it is a work around. Thanks David, fiddly, as you suggest. But probabl...

Hello After I have looked at and rejected or accepted internet matches (shown via the little green circle), the green circle disappears and I can see no way of going back to check what I previously accepted. Right-clicking and pressing "Refresh Internet Matches" doesn't work... Does anyone know if t...

Clinton, you are not alone, but will find that there is more than reading manuals, as there are many tutorials and videos to get engaged in. You deserve a medal for the amount of patient support you give on this website! Everywhere I look, you are there, helping. Thank you very much, it is very kin...

:oops: I'm afraid to say that I did only look at the newcomers link in brief rather than in detail. I admit to being not particularly good at reading manuals (!). But I will now spend time reading it properly. I hadn't realised what a complex and multi-functional software it is... Learning the hard ...

Hi there. My entry says" "Clinton BELL, son of xxx and xxxx, was born on xxxx in Epsom, Surrey. He was a Business development roles (technology). " but I have neither retired nor died yet!

Thanks again tatewise
I do quite like the narrative reports, but mine all seem to use past tense (as if they were dead) even for relatives still alive.
Regards!

Usually for each Source document a new Source record should be created and the image attached there with a transcript, and then that Source record should be cited by each related fact. ancestralsources:index|> Ancestral Sources helps do that. For example, with a Census Source record it will be cite...

Thanks to a couple of people very kindly providing advice on another question I asked about adding anecdotes, I now know that the best way around this is to avoid the computer-generated prose altogether by using "Individual Summary Report".
Best wishes
Clinton

I do the same as Bob -- Individual Summary Report (because I can't stand machine-generated prose, and because it's easy to understand the facts at a glance) and biographical notes. In my case, I use standard notes for an overview of somebody's life and put them in the Main section of the report; an...

I created a custom Biography attribute and then attached that attribute to anyone's profile for which I want to write a biography. Once you have attached the Biography attribute to a profile, then use the Note box for that attribute to write whatever you want. Be advised that I do not use any of th...

Hello again Can anyone please help with this rather embarrassing problem: in my narrative reports, it says things like "Chris JONES was the son of David SMALL and Diana MOORE" - even though the people in question are still alive! This seems like a fundamental error. Or am I missing something? Any he...

Hello
Could anyone advise on the best place to put anecdotes/biographical information, please?
I'm asking relatives to write short notes on their memories of our ancestors to help bring to life the hard facts, and not sure where best to put them.
Many thanks in advance.
Clinton

tatewise - Wow, amazingly comprehensive advice - thank you so much. Very much appreciated!

Thank you David, that's great! Much appreciated.

Hello I am wondering if there is advice on how to mark a person as "Provisional" - by which I mean: where I've found someone who could be a bona fide ancestor or they might not be, but they are the closest match I can find so far... Ideally, I'd like to be able to mark each person according to how s...

PDFs are not images and are therefore not available to be used in reports or books. If you want to use the content of PDFs directly, you will need to convert them to images. fhugdownloads:contents:pdf2jpg|Utility ~ PDF To Image File Converter Arggggh, I had a horrible feeling someone was going to s...

Hello I've been beavering away on my family tree and have saved loads of supporting documentation (JPEGs for images and PDFs for transcriptions). However, when I produce a book including all media, it doesn't show the contents of the PDFs - only the JPEGs. For the PDFs, it just provides information ...

Ah, thank you both very much. I haven't really had much luck with the help function or the book that I bought ("Getting the most from FH6"), but knowing the right terms to search is important. So much to learn with all of this!
Many thanks for your help!

Hello I'm struggling to work out why FH charts have different colours... I think I've worked out that brighter yellow means there is a blood connection to the "Home" person whereas the beige colour means there is no blood connection. But I am unable to work out why the boxes for a few people are gre...