Family Historian User Group

Well, I've learnt some useful things here! The keyboard shortcut is helpful, Helen. And thank you, Vyger, for pointing out a quicker way to do it, but it would be even nicer to right click! Certainly I have lots of Flags/Icons so being able to use right click there would be very useful. Thank you bo...

As a user who works almost exclusively with diagrams, I'd really love to be able to right click on a diagram box to add to a Named List. As it is I first have to double click on the box to open the Property Box, select Go To Record, then go to the Records window where the record is highlighted, and ...

Sorry for the confusion everyone. Yes, I am I suppose using the Gregorian calendar, but the date I was concerned about was recorded under the Julian calendar. I searched the User Group before posting, but didn't find the useful paragraph Lorna quoted. I think I was trying to enter 1599/1600 to indic...

I'm happily entering BMD dates for my ancestors in the 1500s, carefully watching out for dates at the beginning of a year and using the double dating system. I've just come across a baptism on 17 Feb 1599, but I can't find a way to indicate that this is really 1600. Do I have to use a Date Phrase?

Thank you, Arthur and Sarah, for your efforts! I have an expression =IsAncestorOf(%INDI%,Field(FileRoot(),'INDI.~FATH>')) which produces a diagram icon for direct paternal ancestors (and a corresponding one for maternal). I think I knew before I asked that finding an expression for ALL paternal rela...

I'm pleased with this new ability to display the relationship to root at the top of the Property Box. Now I'm wondering, is there any way to distinguish paternal/maternal lines as well? That would be such a help, especialy when there are common names on both sides.

Unfortunately the Occupation Code does not help:

994 Contractors, Manufacturers, Managers, Superintendants (undefined)

Thank you for clarifying the issue Mike. I try to be careful to check the dates of reports I read, but obviously slipped up there. I did take on board that a registry change was involved, but I forgot FH was 32-bit. Anyway, a brand new Windows 11 PC is on the way, and I shall take my time setting it...

Tatewise, the full path/file name of all the quoted examples is identical. They all come from the same Dropbox folder and are copied into the FH Media folder, no sub folders. It has to be a path length issue that somehow arose overnight; I had made no changes. ColeValleyGirl, I upgraded to 7.0.14 af...

Further experimentation suggests that it is indeed a file path length issue. Death MORRISH Susan Western Times 21 August 1931.jpg will not download. Death MORRISH Susan Western Times 21 Aug 1931.jpg will download. Very considerably shorter than Burial MOUNTJOY Emmanuel 1756 Exeter Holy Trinity GBPRS...

No, FH always alerts you to that possibility by telling you it will save it as FileName(2). These were images freshly downloaded from FindMyPast. My routine is to find the record, download the image to a holding folder in Dropbox, immediately enter the data and attach the image. All images are copie...

Sorry yes, I should have said that. The path is identical, all files are in the same folder.

Yesterday I attempted to add a Media file to a Source Record, following a routine I have performed thousands of times before. This time I got the message "Media insert failed. Unable to copy file." I'm aware that a common reason for this failure is overlong file paths, and this has been ni...

Am I missing something? The Knowledge Base article mentions donating via PayPal (my preferred option), debit/credit card or direct bank transfer. But when I actually go to checkout, there is no PayPal option.

Wonderful, all working again! Thank you so much, Lorna and Mike. I learn something new about FH every day, and I've only been using it for 17 years!

Long ago I customised my Property Box with a tab called Flags. As I work almost exclusively from diagrams, icons indicating various bits of information are very important. Most of the icons are controlled by Expressions, but some are controlled by Flags. When I need one, I go to the Flag Tab, tick t...

Roger W, all my ancestors are from Devon and I can tell you it is well worth joining the Devon FHS. It only costs £12 for a year, they have lots of parish and other records not available elsewhere and a very active and supportive membership. Incidentally, my mother was a Morrish, but they were from ...

I've noticed this behaviour recently and it is very annoying. When entering Birth, Baptism and Death facts manually on the facts tab, I would normally enter the Date, tab to Age, tab to Place, just two keystrokes. Now I enter the Date, tab, and the highlight has gone up to the Fact. Tab again, back ...

Sorry Mike, I think I was misunderstanding something here. I can create a Dummy Individual against which I can create any number of custom fact Historical Events, each of which has a Citation and Source against it, am I right? These Historical Facts would be arranged in date order, as would the Sour...

Maureen, yes, that will work, but you will have to re-enter or Copy & Paste those Historical Events to each person that lived through them. Furthermore, if you wish to update one of those Historical Events to add or correct some details, it will involve finding and repeating that update in ever...

I was intrigued by the idea of a Dummy individual to hold historical records and immediately set one up. I should note that Narrative Reports are only of passing interest to me but I'm really keen to set individuals in an historical context. Having created a source for a historical event and added i...

Presumably the same would apply to a Removal Order, from one Parish to another under the Poor Laws? I was surprised to find no such fact exists.

On the other hand, when I started to research my maiden name, WAYCOTT, as an ONS, I quickly found that it was an anomoly which did not exist before about 1750 and seems to have arisen spontaneously in different areas of south Devon, seemingly as a result of the local accent saying the much more comm...

I have been creating Research Notes to which I have added Source Citations (eg a page from a Parish Register). When viewed from the Notes Tab of the Property Box, the Source Citation is visible. When the same Research Note is opened from the main Research Notes tab no Source Citation is shown, simpl...

It does indeed work! Bless you Mike, you are the best!