Family Historian User Group

I have figured it out. Thank you so much to you Jane, and to you Tatewise. I really appreciate it.

Now just going to sort out my flags then I can go to bed with a clear mind!

Thanks so much for trying to help me, but I'm lost. :( In Windows explorer, my path to the images is: C:UsersLouiseDocumentsFamily Historian ProjectsCensus This is mirrored in the Work With External File Links but then it goes a bit crazy, as this screenshot shows: http://imgur.com/6GLfR Not sure ho...

I just moved my medaa via a USB stick, it's now all gone a bit wrong. This is what my Work With External File Links looks like: http://imgur.com/6GLfR Can i re-set it somehow? Yes, I am using a project. Thanks, my flags are still there. I just have to re-assign them then, like you have suggested. Th...

Hi all, It's been a while since I've been on here but have now changed laptops. I have reinstalled FH and got my tree loaded up no problems. I have also copied and pasted the whole of my family history stuff acrross to my new PC. However, I have lost the images of all my sources. I've also lost all ...

Thank-you Jane,

I'm assuming I could create my own flag and associated icon for these records too?

Say; baptisms, banns, marriage, burial?

Would this work?

Hello, I have quite a large collection of Parish registers that I have bought, they are all transcribed from fiche into microsft word. Just wondering you people would make a record of these on FH? Would it best practice to make a screen print and save as a jpeg or something? Want to make sure I know...

Thank-you for your reply, Nick.

I have now sorted it, I don't really know what I was doing but I think it was something to do with the way I had my files/folders set up.

It now works, and the problem was me, not your amazing software. Thanks.

Just trying to carry out my first few census addition to FH by trying to follow the vid tut. However, I'm failing at the first hurdle. Whenever I try to open my project file, I just encounter a blank screen. It doesnt seem to be loading my names (there's only a couple though at the moment). What am ...

Done!

Fantastic!

Thanks very much for all your help, Nick. Really appreciate it. [smile]

Thank-you Nick.

How would you suggest the best way forward is? I don't actually have any flags in my file at the moment, as I am currently reconstructing my tree from scractch after a full system crash, so the world is my oyster (sort of!).

Thanks for your reply Nick, I didn't realise GC had been superceded though, will using Ancestral Sources rectify the problem?

Thanks again.

It's ok, I've found it, very interesting! Thanks!

Ah right, ok, thank you.

Where can I find AS? It's the first I've heard of it. [confused]

I've getting back to grips with FH tonight, but I'm encountering a persistant problem. Everytime I try to use Gedcom Census to import ancestors, I keep getting this error message, which then seems to mess up my entire file, unlinkig brothers/sisters etc and takign icons away from the census flags. C...

Brilliant stuff, Ian.

One question though, wouldn't your census filenames be better served by having surnames first, thus making autosort a bit more logical, i.e. by years, then, surnames?

Thanks so much for your brilliant responses, each one has given me food for thought.

Ian, I especially like your file naming conventions, which I am definitely goign to adopt.

I'm going ro get started right ....... now!

Thanks again.

After a recent hard drive corruption I lost all my work, family history and everythign else on my machine. It was a semi blessing in disguise really as I wanted to sort out my stuff anyway! So, I am now at a stage where I will be re-scanning and redoing my tree in its entirity, so I am just wonderin...

Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can tell me how it is possible to do the following. I have just bought a 1911 census return, and as this contains more information/is a nicer image - I would like to link this actual image of the census page, to a pdf that contains the census transcript (this is alr...

Chris Bowyer said: I do it as I said above with notes on the event, probably the occupation in this case. It also works nicely for when you have additional information on occupations like who they worked for and so on from the 1911 census. Thanks for your input Chris, very intersting and a good sol...

Just thought I'd bump this up as I have discovered an ancestor's WW1 service record on ancestry. I am just wondering what would be the best way of putting in all the information into a narrative? There is a LOT of information and using the facts/attributes just wouldn't be practical. Any thoughts wo...

That's great. Easy when you know how!

Thanks very much.

Hi there, I have a family set up with MOTHER AND FATHER having five children together. I have found out via parish records that the youngest child was born 4 years after the father of the rest of the family had died. On the PR only the mother's name is present. Is there anyway of 'unlinking' this ch...

David,

Thanks ever so much for the suggestion, I have just tried with IE v8.0 and it wores perfectly! So thanks ever so much!!!

Others are sure to benefit from this .....

Interesting, I also use firfox, will give it a stab in IE.

Thanks very much for the suggestion.

Jane/Jon

Thanks ever so much for your thorough responses. I really appreciate it.

Thanks again.