Family Historian User Group

Hi Mike I have been tracking ancestors on several DNA kits. When I'm looking at a list of Lars Larssons it shows up as being an ancestor of my cousin by the color code. This has helped me make sense of connections. I do a query before adding people to see if they are already in there in a different ...

Am I correct in saying that there is no color coding other than on charts? As a former TMG user and current RootsMagic user, I do use color coding to keep different things straight in my mind. I'm wondering if you used a program prior that had color coding and are now using FH, can you tell me what ...

Thank you both for your help.

Hi Lorna -- I am brand new to FH. How did you get to that window? I started at the "Sources Templates" tab on the ?records view? (see image below) I couldn't see any way to add a template until I did a right click. It would seem that the right click, add source template should go to the Source Templ...

I spent considerable time (learning process) creating my first source template in the Sample Project. Is there a way to export/import so I don't need to repeat my steps when I import my RootsMagic data into a new project? Is there no way to insert the fields you created into the format area other th...

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19 Jul 2022 13:35

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19 Jul 2022 12:17

I also get the impression from Forum comments that FH V7 is not "lumper" (Method 2?) friendly.

I'm new here and I'm a lumper. I didn't see any problems. Can you tell me in what way this is a problem in FH7?

I only created one source and it was a learning experience!

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Bev

SOLVED: {dbName:TITLE}, <{dbType}|database>, <i><{Website} |Ancestry.com ></i><(<{itemURL}|{URL}><: accessed {AccessDate}>)><<{ItemOfInterest}>;< citing {citing}>>. I was able to tame the stray spaces by putting conditional brackets around the expressions. {dbName:TITLE}, <{dbType}|database>, <i><{W...

So you can see that the parens and semicolon are hanging out in space in the Footnote.

Hi all - brand new person/user on the 30 day trial (RootsMagic7 user) I am trying to build a source template like the one I use in RM and got some really weird results with placement of spaces and punctuation. "{dbName}", <{dbType}|database>, <i><{Website}|Ancestry.com></i> (<{itemURL}|{URL}> : acce...