Family Historian User Group

I haven't downloaded a GEDCOM in since the second one, maybe accurately in 2018. The files are linked to the Ancestry program and look like this; C:\users\Daulton\Documents\Family History Projects\Ruff_Family Daulton Ok, I see your response below and I accept what you are saying about folders rather...

It looks like I'm following your directions and I have initiated a "repair" but nothing was repaired. I am running it again after "refreshing" it . I still have the Xs in front of the files and no links. Your description of my C file is exactly as you described.

Ok...I'm reading better and I see in tools where there are Xed out files. Now I have to figure out how to initiate the link repair..

Ok, so I disconnected my external drives and looked at the media files on FH and the extension doesn't look anything like your description and I couldn't find another place with media files. Mine all start like this..http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=imate&guide= (then at least a hundred numbers and sy...

Oh boy!... Thanks for your reply. I just have been messing with that auto link repair that I found and I couldn't get it to do anything. I will see if I can find an address associated with the files like you have described. I guess I will disconnect both external drives to continue. Is this problem ...

I've just looked at my program after a long break and discovered that all of my media isn't there. I would like to stay out of the technical weeds because all of you have a completely different Family Historian vocabulary that I don't understand. That being said with complete humility and respect. I...

I think you've helped a lot. I'll follow your instructions...and read the directions. I'll spend some time working with the program as I do wish to learn it.
Appreciate your time and help.

Ok.. that helps better.. I am not used to the terminology. This is what happened. I purchase the program about a year ago after losing my Family Search program, which I then found a back up copy of, and quickly made a gedcom file because it was becoming corrupted. At that time Family Search was no l...

Sorry for posting in the wrong spot. I thought I was in General. I don't use FTM anymore because I read the negative comments. It is possible that I downloaded one gedcom from FTM but the latter from Ancestry. I did download two gedcom files ...at different times separated by some months. I am reall...

I'm sure this is a common and simple thing to fix but I have failed to do that. I imported two gedcom files..and I guess you're not supposed to do that without filtering it some way. Right now there are two me's and I have two mothers and fathers... you get the picture. There are merge tabs in the f...

Thank you for your reply. I did as you suggested and just deleted the information. This information was not on Wiki Tree but it may have been from old information on one of my old back ups, so I take responsibility for info about my sister. I am new and thought this came from some other source. I wi...

I'm a new user, (version 6), but my usage is a little postponed because I suddenly was gifted a subscription to Ancestry and I am populating Wikitree also because my hard drive was lost. I did recover my old Family Tree program long enough to get the tree converted to Gedcom files. I am frantic to g...

I just this minute received my Family Historian program in the mail. I also, thank you, Mr Mike Tatewise, for reminding me that I had copied the program FTM to my old HD. Sure enough, my data was there and I did convert it to Gedcom format. Let's see if I can find those files on my computer now. I w...

The things you are saying do make sense. Come to think of it I did attempt to download the program to an external hard drive that I loaned to my cousin so he could get some media files off, which he did. He told me that he was unable to download or try the program but I'll look and see if the progra...

Thank you very much for your reply, your welcome, and suggestions. The 2014 FTP was a free download that I used for several years. I looked last night and see that those types of programs are still available but they are listed as malware. In this new age I find that very scary even though testimoni...

This my first post. I expect to receive my program tomorrow and it may take me a while to get it loaded. Someone took my HD and wiped my program and all my files. I had the files backed up but I am unclear how to create a GEDcom file if I no longer have my 2014 version of FTM. Most of the suggestion...