Family Historian User Group

My opinion remains unaltered by all the varied assessments and reports, primarily because there is a great deal of dishonesty out there about which GEDCOM Standard is being supported by which genealogy software product. - Any developer who states that their product specifically supports GEDCOM 5.5 a...

Presumably it puts FH some way behind others that have already adopted 5.5.1 as a standard, unless the question becomes: Will FH7 be fully 5.5.1 (and possibly 5.5.5) compliant? Of course, those that have already adopted 5.5.1, some several years ago, still have the same issues with data transfer bec...

Colin, In contrast, I very much doubt that there are many FH users who use symbolic links at all, let alone between the folders you mentioned, but I'd be pleased to be proved wrong. The only way I use them is to avoid the need for multiple copies of linked document/media files If I remember correctl...

For anyone still concerned about the current Search Bug in the Windows 10 File Manager, there's some information on an update fix (currently undergoing testing) here: https://news.softpedia.com/news/next-windows-10-version-1909-cumulative-update-likely-to-fix-file-explorer-bug-528661.shtml I didn't ...

Colin, Works fine on Catalina (which itself has just been upgraded to 10.15.2 - another 3Gb download which makes Windows monthly updates look puny!) A third-party MacOS checker (Go64) reports Crossover as 64-bit, apart from one library file 'libFAudio.0.19.10.dylib' Not sure what the impact might be...

The system Colin describes is very similar to the one I use, i.e. I'm also a Mac User and use 'Time Machine' which once configured requires very little user maintenance/interaction time (no expensive NAS Drive or Internet/Cloud costs involved); but in my case I also have a portable synchronisation D...

Helen,

The Version in the AppStore does seem to have been updated (6 Dec 2019), but isn't recognised by the "Check Installed Plugins Against the Store" Plugin, presumably because it identifies as the same version number as the previous release.

Mervyn

Have followed this discussion with interest; and as an obsessive user of Backups and (Manual) Synchronisation across multiple systems I can see merit in the suggestion that inbuilt backup systems for software applications should consider saving 'vital' software settings as well as data. However, tha...

Users could, of course, use an alternative to File Explorer to avoid the problem. There's no shortage of free alternatives which mostly offer additional features that Microsoft continually neglects to add.

Mervyn

Colin,

If this is on your Mac Laptop then, for 'Delete' substitute 'fn+BackArrow' (bottom left+top right). [No 'Delete' key on Mac laptops or the more common Compact Keyboard].

Mervyn

Have a look at: Knowledge Base > Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Working With Templates ~ (3) Auto Text

Mervyn

I think it's important to recognise that the marriage of a British female to a German citizen did not result, historically, in her losing British Citizenship under British Law, but rather in her acquiring alternative German/Reich Citizenship on marriage under German/Reich Law until 1953. However, Ge...

Have just enrolled in the Crossover 19 beta testing programme and am downloading the newly released beta software for version 19 now (MacOS Catalina compatible). Will report success or otherwise with Family Historian 6 a.s.a.p. Mervyn Update Edit: Have now installed the Crossover 19 (beta 1) softwar...

Rodders, First, there's some advice/guidance here: https://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to:family_historian_on_imac_ipad_android_etc On the practicalities, which version of MacOS do you have installed? If it's Catalina (10.15 series) then WINE in it various forms (e.g. Crossover, WineSkin, P...

@wigansaint, Sorry but I don't follow the statement: I appreciate the point of recording the information as you say. But as an example, if a child is staying with his grandparents at one address and his parents at another if you record the information as you suggest the child would not be linked to ...

It's explained in the Family Historian Help File under the first paragraph of "How to enter a Person's Name".

Mervyn

For anyone interested, the latest Crossover update on progress towards WINE compatibility for MacOS 10.15.1 (Catalina) users is here:

https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs ... s-catalina

Mervyn

As far as any hopes for a native MacOS version of Family Historian goes, whilst I would like to be surprised, I certainly won't be holding my breath for any such development, especially as Calico Pie seems to be firmly fixed on the Windows platform and doesn't appear to have shown any inclination (y...

Helen, I'm not making any suggestions, simply demonstrating that for the average computer user/family history researcher it is quite possible to carry out the mass of their work without anything more than a 'terminal' with internet access and, of course, the wherewithal to pay for the appropriate su...

Thinking laterally, isn't everything described already available to a great extent; and to anyone who wants it except they call it: - Android (plus Google Apps + Local/Cloud Storage) - iOS (plus Apple Store, plus Local/iCloud) - Microsoft Go (plus Windows Store, plus Local/OneDrive storage) - etc. A...

The non-standard data fields that appear in the GEDCOM File are preceded by an Underline Character. e.g. from a Family Historian File: _TYPE _PLAC _SHAR Don't know that anyone has produced a definitive list of the non-standard fields built in to a clean Family Historian installation, but it is compl...

When using 'Cloud' services such as Google, the main things to watch out for are that: - the computer you last worked on completed synching any Family Historian (and any other) Data before it was shut down; - the computer you move to completes synching all changed files before you open Family Histor...

I'm afraid you the answer remains the same for all information, i.e. it depends on the recipient software, not the donor (Family Historian), which exports the GEDCOM in its entirety. That's why Mike Tate has done so much work on his Plug-in(s) to compensate for known differences/issues in the way pr...

The answer is simple: "It depends on the other product(s)!" 8-) Some years ago I invested a relatively small sum of money (in comparison with that other well known tome) in a book(let) by Ben Sayer: "Practical Citation" https://practicalcitation.com (also available on Amazon) The guide was based on ...

Some interesting background and info for those interested in these things: https://www.tamurajones.net/GEDCOM555JustARevision.xhtml https://www.gedcom.org/index.html Not sure how much traction this might gain, if any, given the apparent lack of practical involvement of any of the major genealogy sof...