Family Historian User Group

As a new FH user I am finding the V5 version of the book (free!) very helpful in getting me started with FH and basic workflows. But of course it is missing the new topics. The website is helpful but it is not developed like a training book.

I am sure V6 book will fill in some missing item for V7 but I don't want to purchase an obsolete book.

After taking the long way around ... is there any information on a V7 of the book? If someone doesn't know a date can someone verify one will be available of should one purchase V6?

Fall and winter is my genealogy season so I am wanting to get prepared.

Thanks all!

Michael

Calico Pie (the authors of family Historian) never pre-announce releases of the software or the accompanying books, so we have no visibility of whether there's going to be a V7 version of 'Getting the Most from'. It seems likely that there will be one but nobody but Calico Pie knows for sure.

Thank you. I will look and see what the delay was between the V6 release and the book release was.

Thanks agin.

If I researched properly. V6 came out in 2014. V6 book came out in 2018. Hope I got that wrong. 4 years gap.

It’s listed on Amazon UK as published 1 Mar 2016. I wonder if the US publication was later? I’m sure any V7 version will come out simultaneously in both markets.

V6 was released in December 2014, so "Getting the Most ..." was published about 15 months later.

Hi Michael, I was like you, being a fairly competent software user I still wanted some help with everything that FH7 does. I downloaded the free book on V5 but like you found it not enough so with a lot of pondering I took the plunge and purchased the 'outdated' book, "Getting the Most From FH6" and waited patiently for it to arrive. I live in New Zealand and had it reprinted by a very helpful and obliging company called 'Lulu'. The book arrived and I was absorbed for many hours, working from cover to cover together with my newly purchases software which I had purchased at the beginning of this year soon after it became available. I have found the book very useful although not exactly a "book for Dummies", if you understand me. It is a book you can pick up and put down, it explains many things that I do not even use, but might one day. I have found that using the book along with the very good 'Help' tool provided with the software I have managed to probe and prod my way to enlightenment. I have also used a couple of the tutorials that are available and found them to be most helpful. I think it is important to understand that FH7 can do many things, and in many different ways, the best is to pick what is best for you, what works. That is what I have done having imported a Family Tree of almost 1000 members from a certain website that began to concentrate too much on American Ancestry for my liking. The upshot of all this is "Yes", I recommend the book even though it is for FH6, it worked for me. Good luck, Happy Hunting. Regards Phil.
NB. My book was published Calico Pie 2016. ISBN 978-0-9935427-0-1.

I contacted Calico Pie back in March 2021 and was informed that a V7 book would be produced, but there was no timescale at present.

I’m making the jump to FH7 from RM.

I found a used copy of the version 6 book on Amazon for about $4, plus a couple of bucks for shipping. Turns out, it looks brand new. I spent several hours working through it and the sample project. It was well worth the time investment.

Some of the newer features like source-driven data entry (and maybe templates, can’t remember) are not in it being new to v7. But everything else in it is still pertinent to V7. And you will still be a very proficient user even if you don’t use the latest whistles and bells.

Check Amazon frequently, because used books are added all the time.

Rich