Family Historian User Group

Already have V5 manual but upgraded to V6 and would like information on how to use new features in V6.

Looking to buy user manual for V6 but when I look on FH site for book I get directed to a website called LuLu bookstore.Is this genuine ? Price is £14.95 other sites charging upto £40.

Thanks for that.Will have a read.

I have a problem which is not serious but just niggling me. All my images for various certificates are saved as jpeg files,and when viewed on pc appear horizontal. However when I link some of them to a file in AS they appear rotated through 90 degrees. Generally anti-clockwise. Even when i try to ro...

I agree with Mike. I also enter the census for the individual exactly as it shows on the census form. If I feel that I need to, I enter a note on the individual's census record pointing to the information for the census record of the family of that person. Sometimes I also add a note to the census ...

Wondering how members handle entering of people who are not at home on census night. I have a relative (a grandfather when he was a young child) who is a visitor to a family who are no relation to him. Rest of family are at home address. Would I enter this as though the relative was at home and put ...

Further to this post I now have v.5 installed and have updated to latest version. My original laptop gave up the ghost but I have managed to rescue the files from the hard drive and imported them onto my new laptop and into Family Historian. I used the project window, imported gedcom file and chose ...

Thanks for that.

Hi, I recently had to purchase a new laptop and am currently re-installing my software. I have a disc of V.4 which I have installed.Originally I also downloaded V.5. I have found a download of V.5 in the download archive. However the product key I have to activate the program does not work. Is there...

Made a basic mistake in the marriage entry. I put a wrong spelling of a place name and unfortunately saved it.Now when I start typing a place name this wrong spelling keeps appearing. Is there a way to delete this from the saved place names?

Thanks

Will do next time It happens.

It fails and then succeeds for identical path and filename.

Yes the path is correct. This problem does not occur everytime I try to save an image.
Since posting the question I have tried to save an image and was able to do so.

Recently I have been getting an error message when trying to save media images. I have deleted and then installed a fresh download of Ancestral sources but to no avail.
Any suggestions would be welcome.

Luckily I had only just started my family tree and there wasnt a lot to add.Thanks.

It would appear I have solved the problem. Dont know how but I reloaded a backup file and re-entered the info. At same time I did reload installation settings for diagram options. Thanks for the help.

Hi Tried that but with no success. I have two family trees (Mine and my wife's, both with same text scheme) and it appears that only my tree is affected. My wife's shows all birth marriage and death info

Hi all, I am having problems with the text scheme on my diagrams. I currently have the Birth, Marr, Death scheme selected. However, from the 3x great grandparents generation none of the information is showing in the boxes even though the information has been added. If I look at the individual record...

Until now I have concentrated on my own family project, but recently I started to do family histories for other people. When I try to save a backup of the individual projects they are all saved into one backup folder although I have given the backup folder a different name in the preferences menu fo...

which will show the addresses where individuals lived during their lifetime, or can the same result be achieved by a report in FH?

Thanks for any reply.

I recently realised I had added some wrong information to my family tree. I tried to restore a backup I had made but found that the media folder was missing and no multimedia images had been restored. Whenever I do a backup I always do a full backup. Are the media files restored to a different locat...

On numerous censuses I have other relatives other than sons and daughters living at an address. I tried adding a nephew of the head of household (Putting nephew as relation ) but he was recorded in FH as being a son of the head of household. How do others treat these relatives?

Marriage witnesses are invariably relatives of either the bride or groom. How can the following be entered via AS 1..At the time the marriage details are entered in AS there is no known relationship between witnesses and bride or groom,so the the "just a name -not in file " is chosen but l...

I have added an individuals details from their birth cert.(Among them fathers name and mothers maiden name). I have then added the parents marriage , using AS. If I then look at the parents individual records the marriage does not show as a source for the spouses name only the birth certificate of t...

Thanks for the replies.

Message to self "Read everything before making fool of yourself"

I have worked through tutorial for adding marriage information but have a problem with the auto text. The county name (Surrey) does not appear on the 3rd line as it should i.e ......at Parish Church in the parish of Newton in the county of (Surrey not showing as it should)) I have tried to edit the ...