Family Historian User Group

The consequence of this evolving work method is that I am now reconsidering my previous practice of maintaining separate projects for apparently distinct clusters - in say North West Cumberland (UK), Hertfordshire (UK), Canada, USA. I can have them in a single project but by having "master" custom ...

Bev, I use Record Flags and Named Lists membership as Mike Tate suggested. I have to admit I am now doing more of my work in Diagrams and did not make much use of Colour Coding in Rootsmagic due to the singular last colour preference. In FH I find I am starting to work more in Diagrams where I can u...

Users wishing to provide any kind of transcription, or links to images will end up with data duplication if they 'lump' because of the way that GEDCOM (and therefore FH) stores the data. As a relational database 'expert' l hate the idea of data duplication which is why I usually 'split'. Nick, I ha...

Thanks Mike, I was expecting to see a Research Notes tab so missed that it was a part of Notes. It still seems a bit clunky to me. For starters, in Research Tasks why not have a date picker to put in the Date or drop downs for Tasks which retain previous tasks (how many times is the task something ...

No they don’t. A feature of “cheap 8 year old software” is that “you do it my way or not at all”. If that works for you, stick with it, but I suspect most users here prefer the flexibility of FH. It needs more effort up front, but you don’t get owt for nowt... Mark, when I can maintain a relative a...

I find this thread counter productive, to be direct Family Historian provide for Research Logs, To-Do and Correspondence items, a more productive discussion might be why are those features not working for users? I believe it would be controversial for me to say I use v7 of my previous genealogy soft...

I have just had a look at this and personally I believe this is one area deserving much improvement when users work flows are fully considered. In my previous software I used this feature frequently and the selection requirement can be varied, however a frequent requirement was to Print for particul...

For visual learning, I would also highly recommend Jackson Eagleson (Vyger)'s GenealogyReviews YT channel . He has a few videos about the various features on FH7, and I am sure that he has more in the works. Genealogy Software Showcase also did a video series on using the various features of FH7. I...

I completely agree with the OP as this is an area I find FH has room for improvement and hopefully will do so. The auto grabber over an image and auto zoom by mouse wheel is now a basic expectation of users and has been available in competitor software and various other applications for many years n...

Thank you, we all work in different ways, needs must.

@jimlad68, may I ask why, origins of Address data, desired goal? I ask because I still maintain my extensive Address (Place Details) database in Rootsmagic 7, it's an extensive work and too valuable for me to forsake, it remains my last link to the Rootsmagic and will do until CP fill that gap. Othe...

Jim, I am on vacation at present but will check out your methods with interest and comment when I return home.

Thanks Helen, I was beginning to think that was the case. I can see more specialised tools might be needed for research, but I like to keep as much data as possible (even if it links elsewhere), in a simple and as structured a form as possible in one "master" place. Hi Jim, I read your post with in...

I was very much hoping this would be part of version 7 but alas not yet. Addresses or sites have their own history and in another program I can geocode them, add notes and Media embellishing my database. Keeping these separate as Place Details also leave the actual place field more concise for onlin...

Thank you Jane, the decision for the future of my research will be made later this year.

I am currently a Rootsmagic user which is due a version upgrade. I have trialed the current version of FH and am impressed with many features which could be of use, these features are not currently available in Rootsmagic. I'm working out that FH version 6 is about 4 years old so I am wondering abou...