Family Historian User Group

I have recently updated to AS v.7.2 templates and I have the following questions regarding citations and images of certificates in the Narrative Report using the default settings:- 1. 'SOURCES' - list at end of report At the end of the correct 'Census' citation the following unwanted additional text...

I am on Week 2 at the moment. You can join at any time and have about 50 days free access before you loose access. People from all over the world are joining all the time. No need to catch just study 'at your own pace one week at a time' . Don't get distracted by trying to read 100's of comments fro...

Thank you for link to University of Strathcylde useful 'Referencing Guide'. At the moment they seem to be using American Family Tree Maker software which does not always suit correct UK Harvard Citation for students on their postgraduate genealogy programmes and have to be manually corrected. They i...

Thank you for this recommendation. I have signed in for the course and using it as a refresher on Recording and Citation of my records and finding any gaps in my family Projects especially in Scottish and USA records. There is a high sign up from students all over the world in the first few days. Do...

Thank you Jane for these 2 suggestions which I will try in next few days

Just completed 'Free Text' in a family BOOK Publish using word processing facility. I would now like to ADD the following to to either within the free text word processing text or at the end of free text from items saved in a folder on Windows 10:- - add pre saved .jpg images in the free text ? - co...

Thank you Lorna ,yes you are correct. I have just tried your suggestion in your previous reply timed 13.41 today and it worked on all my projects that I transferred from v.6.2 to v.7 and I can now see all my BMD certificates and Census at the end of each Descendant Narrative Report.

Thank you again for your help and advise on answers to my questions 2 to 4.

Item 1 - After I reach the 'Generic Source Format' page as you suggested, which option do I chose to enable me to include copies of BMD and Census at the end of Descendant Narrative Reports? Thank you.

1. I have upgraded from FH v.6.2 to v.7 after using AS v.5 for successful entry of BDM & Census records. The copies of the BDH certificates and Census appeared at the end of Descendant Narrative Report after bibliography automatically which I was pleased with. When I upgraded to FH V.7 I also upgrad...

Thank you for moving to a new topic ,sorry about that. After Start a new project (no import) a new page opens 'Enter Details of Starting Person' - starting, sex, father, mother > next. Then another new page opens 'Enter Name of New Project' - New Project (tick if want to make default), >finish . Sti...

I now have just tried to enter a NEW PROJECT family surname on Project Window Wizard for the first time on Upgrade v.7 and some reason the new surname I entered does not appear on my list of other family names in Project Window after several attempts. Do I have reset something on the upgrade v.7? Is...

Just started to use Book and I have been trying to use Free Text option on my second page. I want to create a unique title heading, but after entering the new title the heading.... 'Free Text' keeps appearing at the end of my new title and I can't seem to be able to delete these 2 words without dele...

Thank you for highly recommending practising new Word Processing features on FH7 on the Sample Project - very helpful. I have also started to add my own Citations using standard Essentials template based on University of Strathcylde methodology. I am looking forward to learning a lot more about new ...

Adrian and Mike thank you for your useful input. I will start to see if I have too many BMD and Census AS v.7 sources ( with new plug ins installed) referring to similar events multiple facts which are all citated on each individual Record Window. Can I practise new FH 7 changes on the Family Histor...

New year resolution - 'to learn all about new integrated word processing facilities on new version 7' 1st Task - How to use Improved Report Window Integrated Word Processor How can I change and re write my own word processing text in the new improved report window? At the moment it is difficult to r...

Pleased to report that everything is now working perfectly with Individual Link to Image thank you

Managed to transfer image into record OK but for some reason after accepting the cropped 'Frame Link' in proportion selected it appears in the Descendants by Generation report as a VERTICAL ELONGATED DISTORTION showing only a small proportion of my descendants image? Any ideas why this might have ha...

Thank you for reassuring me that nothing has changed and I will try 'Refresh Report' button.

Just 'unsuccessfully' tried to add an individual 'face frame link' from image which I have added to Individual Media page using method I have used successfully for several years on v.6.2?. It does not appear in Descendants by Generation narrative report or individual window? Have you changed the met...

Thank you team for all your hard work producing this new KB informative guide to the new Family Historian v.7. I will find this a very useful and informative guide.

Great, thanks for the clarifications

Thank you for your positive reassuring help and guidance. This will give me courage to have a go in the near future. I assume family trees will merge and tend to get much bigger. Are there any potential problems with merged family trees and larger diagrams? Are there any limits to the number of indi...

I want to try to merge two family projects which contain members of both projects. This will be the first time I will have attempted to merge any FH projects so a bit apprehesive Differences Between Two Projects - The one I want to merge does not contain media family photographs whereas the larger p...

Thank you for moving my post this morning to AS. I will have a look at your 2 links and work through entering my Canadian 1916 and 1921 Census

I am new to using Ancestral Sources this year successfully entering UK BMD and Census on fixed years 1841-1911. I have just tried to enter some family Census for Canada Saskatchewan Prairies Region for 1916, 1921, and 1926 and for some reason it does not seem to recognize these years for Saskatchewa...