Family Historian User Group

Hi Mike, I have tried a number of things. Removing the < > in all cases allows the production of a Narrative Reports > Descendants by Generation. The data in this database has come from a number of previous family tree programs so I wondered if these symbols were old character codes which FH didn't ...

Sorry for the delay: The report I am requesting is: Narrative Reports > Descendants by Generation. I have tried removing the < and > from the name and this fixes the problem. I hope you don't think I am being picky, but these symbols haven't caused previous versions of FH a problem. I'm happy to rem...

Hi all, I think I have just come across a bug in FH 7.0.20: A tiny minority of the people on my tree were born and then died immediately after birth. In this case I have given them the name <Unnamed> Adams or <Unnamed> Warren as I feel that the deserve to be noted. But if I then ask to publish a des...

Sorry correction:
In previous versions of FH, if I added a note anywhere with ASC enabled, it would not add the source to the note. But if you then edited the note, it would then add the source.
In FH 7.0.19 it never adds the source with ASC enabled.

I am using a Windows 11 PC and FH7 V 7.0.19. When using the Automatic Source Citation (ASC) Tool. When I add a fact anywhere, ASC works exactly as expected - the source gets added to that fact. But when I add a note anywhere, although ASC is enabled, it doesn't add the source to the note and I have ...

Thanks Mike for the advice - I'm not sure how to update out of date device drivers. But will look it up. But in regard to your other questions: All my photos are uploaded to google photos and the few programs I have (Kaspersky, Printer Driver, MS Office, FH) I have uploaded to Google Drive. As well ...

Hi there, Thank you for your good advice which I immediately went to act on. I downloaded the Windows 10 updater, it fired up but after the Windows splash screen said something like "There has been an error and this program will not run error xxx-xxxx". Do you have any suggestions what might be caus...

Many thanks, I could do update to Windows 10. Unfortunately my Windows 7 PC - which isn't particularly powerful - runs smoothly and quickly. It doesn't need saying that if I update it to 10, it will chug along and using it will become a chore!

I would like to update to FH v7.0.17.1. I have a Windows 7 PC connected to the internet and currently own and run version 7.0.15. When I click check for updates, FH says "Unable to determine if new updates are available. Please try again later". Is it just me who is getting this message? Is it becau...

Hi Lorna, Adrian, Thank you for your suggestions, I will certainly look at the options. Yes you are correct that the FTM solution doesn't visually connect where the same person appears, but in my opinion this isn't particularly necessary, all that is required is a method to identify that the person ...

Currently, when one or more people are shown twice on a descendant or ancestor chart (e.g. when cousins marry) in FH, a curved line is drawn between the two instances of the same people shown on the same chart. This (a) looks unsightly/amateur and (b) the curved line sometimes is drawn in such a way...

Hi there, I have a five year old Windows 7 pc with an i3 processor which runs FH7 fractionally more slowly than FH6 with autosave set to 5min and snapshots set to auto. I have the same size database/sources etc. - not many photos (about 700) and no source images. My PC suffers no locking up at all. ...

I don't want this to sound depressing, but it will! I have loved family history for years and have built a database of all my ancestors, all their siblings and all their descendants. Every time I've made a discovery, it has pleased/thrilled? me and I have tried to explain what I have found to my fam...

And yes you're right: Alternative names of any kind never did get a source in FH6!

Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply - it may be that it's only my installation - that's Windows for you! I updated from version 6.2 (so didn't uninstall it first). Whether I create a new source or choose an existing one I get the same result. To repeat: I click the Auto button in the new ribbon bar. I cli...

Hi All, I have downloaded V7 today and it is a step forward in many areas. But Automatic Source Citations don't seem to be working properly: I want to add a Census text paragraph to each person in the family it relates to. I have created a new source called "1901 Census RG13/812/12/16" and given it ...

I think the short answer is yes, but in my mind the purpose of a family tree program/database is to provide effortless data entry, reliable data storage and easy report/chart generation. FH fulfills all these criteria. Although I am aware there are plug ins available, which I have used when I import...

Sorry! Having read my post, to clarify: FTM 2005 therefore doesn't have any links to media files because they're all stored internally in the database file so there is no possibility of automating this bit. And here is another Divorced ending status which hopefully might clarify what each line does:...

Hi There, Thank you for your prompt reply! In answer to your question and requests: - Yes I will have a great deal of trouble migrating my Media: FTM 2005 compresses and stores pictures/media within the single .FTW file along with the family tree database. Thankfully I have all my media files also s...

Hi, I have used FTM 2005 for a very long time but have been looking to update the software I use. I recently downloaded FH 6 and really liked the look, flexibility, reports etc. I imported my GEDCOM which is quite large now (18k people) and came across a number of problems (I did look at the instruc...