Welcome all to the Family Historian
Posted: 16 Nov 2002 09:56
Welcome all to the Family Historian Users Mailing List. This list is very new and has not yet shown much activity, but I hope it will now. I have just today emailed a large number of people who had expressed interest in subscribing to this list, to tell them that it is now running, and already I can see some people have joined as a result.
In the future, I will be posting some proposals for enhancements to Family Historian for the next version, for people to comment on. Early indications are that the following currently top the wish-list: more reports and more report types (esp. Individual Summary, Family Group Sheet, and the textual style Register Report), generation of html (web-pages), search-and-replace facilities, and help with correcting errors in GEDCOM files, generated by other applications. Smaller, but also popular features include: auto-completion of place names to make it quicker and easier to type them in, and auto-generation of surnames for children based on the father's name (if known) or the mothers name if no father. Does that seem like a reasonable first pass wish-list? Would people want an auto-save facility added to that list? What about the ability to bookmark frequently accessed records to make it very quick to jump to them? Some people would like it to be as easy to enter baptism, burial and christening details as it currently is to enter birth and death details. Some people have commented that the way that you resize a diagram when printed, or reposition diagrams on the printed page, is unintuitive and would like it made easier to understand. Is that seen as a priority? What about a very quick way to locate a person by typing in their record id?
I have a long list of things that I would like to do to Family Historian. These are just a few of the things in the pipeline. Is there anything really important that is missing from this list? Or anything included that doesn't deserve to be?
Other thoughts: has everyone found the User Manual (not to be confused with the printed Quick Start Tutorial)? Ultimately the User Manual (online document that you read using Acrobat Reader - preferably version 5.0 or later) is the most important source of information about how to use F.H.; so if you haven't looked at the User Manual yet, its well worth doing so.
This list is intended to be used for support queries; so please feel free to send them (remember to send your email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-L@rootsweb.com); and please don't expect me to answer everyone's support queries because I don't intend to. If someone asks something and you know the answer, don't hesitate to reply; but please do so via the list, rather than emailing the person directly, so that everyone benefits.
Simon Orde List administrator and designer of Family Historian
In the future, I will be posting some proposals for enhancements to Family Historian for the next version, for people to comment on. Early indications are that the following currently top the wish-list: more reports and more report types (esp. Individual Summary, Family Group Sheet, and the textual style Register Report), generation of html (web-pages), search-and-replace facilities, and help with correcting errors in GEDCOM files, generated by other applications. Smaller, but also popular features include: auto-completion of place names to make it quicker and easier to type them in, and auto-generation of surnames for children based on the father's name (if known) or the mothers name if no father. Does that seem like a reasonable first pass wish-list? Would people want an auto-save facility added to that list? What about the ability to bookmark frequently accessed records to make it very quick to jump to them? Some people would like it to be as easy to enter baptism, burial and christening details as it currently is to enter birth and death details. Some people have commented that the way that you resize a diagram when printed, or reposition diagrams on the printed page, is unintuitive and would like it made easier to understand. Is that seen as a priority? What about a very quick way to locate a person by typing in their record id?
I have a long list of things that I would like to do to Family Historian. These are just a few of the things in the pipeline. Is there anything really important that is missing from this list? Or anything included that doesn't deserve to be?
Other thoughts: has everyone found the User Manual (not to be confused with the printed Quick Start Tutorial)? Ultimately the User Manual (online document that you read using Acrobat Reader - preferably version 5.0 or later) is the most important source of information about how to use F.H.; so if you haven't looked at the User Manual yet, its well worth doing so.
This list is intended to be used for support queries; so please feel free to send them (remember to send your email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-L@rootsweb.com); and please don't expect me to answer everyone's support queries because I don't intend to. If someone asks something and you know the answer, don't hesitate to reply; but please do so via the list, rather than emailing the person directly, so that everyone benefits.
Simon Orde List administrator and designer of Family Historian
. One of my priorities