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You can have two copies of Family Historian open for the same project at the same time... although it takes some discipline only to make changes in one of them. (You can make changes in both, but I don't recommend it -- that way lies confusion). The Quick Family Facts plugin (from the plugin store) ...

Open the Project Window. (File > Project Window)

Choose New Project.

Choose Import a GEDCOM File.

I recommend keeping the box ticked to Copy your linked multimedia files into the project folder.

Worth checking whetherthe material is on the British Library Web Archive which is less likely to vanish...

Mike, copyright subsists even if the original website doesn't.

It subsists typically 75 years after death of the creator.

You need to go through a process of elimination. Examine each candidate arriving or born in New Zealand of the right(ish) age and the same or similar name, and track them forward from the point at which you first find them. Some of them will die at the 'wrong time/place', some of them will marry the...

Have you looked for records of him immigrating to NZ, as you don't know he was born there.

If you follow the links for the various versions at how_to:about#version_history|> Version History you'll see there have been a load of new features since 2.1 (which is where I started as well), and there are even more coming in v7... There has been so much change you might find it sensible to get t...

Everybody's code style is different -- I can't make head nor tail of your code, nor of Mike Tate's, most of the time. I think it depends on how each person's brain is wired.

I use the do-end construct to localise variables (restrict the scope to the code block) and also to make it easy to fold/unfold great chunks of code as once in Zb. The functions don't run unless they're called

Starts with something like:
and ends with the MakeDateField function.

Have a look at the Dialog helper functions in my plugins, to start with.

the Loadrequire code is at the knowledgebase page I pointed you to; you need to drop it into your plugin. When you say you're trying to nick the code (and go ahead, use whatever you want frommy plugins), do you want a popup windows for options (I suspect not) or a basic iup dialaog? If you can give ...

For the techies amongst us, the root cause of the problem is that Microsoft has two different 'software installation architectures' for Office which are not compatible with each other. Standalone products like Access 2010 use the old one; MS Office H&S 2019 uses the new one. I ran into a similar con...

You need to 'loadrequire' it first: see plugins:code_snippets:module_require_with_load|> Module Require With Load (code snippet) . The first time it's run this will download the library to your PC, thereafter it's the same as require. if not LoadRequire("pl","pl.init") then return end -- Load requir...

Nobody has been selected as a beta tester yet -- beta testing hasn't started. So if you've put your name forward to test as a former TMG user, you may yet be selected.

A slight correction -- Deceased Online does not use Parish Registers.

How many people have freely chosen to move to Windows 10? I did. I find it very stable -- I've had many fewer problems than with Windows 7 or 8 -- and very customisable. (I particularly like the ability to use light-weight apps rather than heavyweight programs for some purposes). As for the ribbon ...

Adrian, it's clunky but just about works -- two events and one status show what happened. Much harder to deal with a void marriage -- there's a Marriage Event, and the Status should be 'Never Married' but there isn't a 'Void Marriage' event; the marriage event has to be bestrewn with notes explainin...

William, if you use the Backup and Restore FH Settings Plugin after you've customised the product to your preferences, you'll be able to get the colours (and other stuff) back if the worst comes to the worst.

You want the plugin from the plugin store at https://www.family-historian.co.uk/plug ... try?id=253

I have to say that both those styles would have me running for the customise button -- I think they're dreadful! I can't bear grey themes -- I go for the whitest brightest I can find. Plus large icons take up too much space -- I automatically hide the Microsoft ribbon. But we're all different, and t...

Jane is the author of that plugin...

What would you like to see changed? Having worked with FH since version 2, I've always appreciated its clean modern appearance and personally hope that isn't changed.

Helen, it sounds like you are proposing Plugins with two slightly different names in the Plugin Store : a new one for FH V7 while keeping the old one for the frozen FH V6 version. Yes, where the functionality depends on new features in FH7. For me, and maybe others, it gets more complicated than th...

I'm planning to create new versions for FH7 and leave the FH6 versions alone. Admittedly. I only have two released plugins -- Research Planner will change significantly with the new features, ditto Multifact. But I have a load more in the works -- just waiting for FH7. I am however making no assumpt...