Family Historian User Group

I had exactly the same happen two weeks ago. I hadn’t used FH for some months so I was prompted to upgrade to the latest level. This I did. When FH restarted it attempted to open my default project and returned the same error as Tina received. I went straight for my backup and was back in business i...

That's what I was thinking Mike. Thanks for the prompt advice.

Help please Folks, I have a couple in my tree who married, had two children and later divorced. The Mother never married again and many years later she adopted a disabled son. How do I enter this adopted child? Do I set up a blank spouse family for the Adopting mother? Any advice will be gratefully ...

Mike, I updated to 2.7 today. When I attempted to export in ANC format, UTF8 With BOM, Wipe-All media, I received the following error message and an empty .ged file and the plug-in hangs with greyed-out text. Any thoughts? Nick [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\..."]:5374...

I like to have a favicon.ico file for my Shortland.info website. The file is placed in the root directory of the website (usually where index.html resides). This allows a custom icon to be shown on the browser tab in most modern browsers. The problem is that the FH Website directory (e.g. C:\Users\N...

Thanks for that. I use TeamViewer quite a lot. Mainly to help others with PC problems. I never thought to use it for FH remotely. I'll give it a go.

I would like to see an app for iPad/iPhone/Android which would allow information be captured in the field and synced with FH - perhaps via Dropbox, SkyDrive or Amazon Cloud. The fields to be captured could be exported in a list from FH to Dropbox. It makes sense for this to be a GEDCOM file. The mob...

Thanks Jane. You've come up trumps again. I did as you suggested, and also added a explanatory text box on the relevant chart.

In my tree I have a man, Brian, whose parents are known. They lived in Yorkshire, and after the father returned 'damaged' from WW1, Brian and his sister Monica were sent to Cork in Ireland to live with a well off uncle, William. Brian and Monica never again had contact with their natural parents. My...

Ignore my last post regarding a further iteration. I've figured out how to do what I want and will update my site shortly.

Hi folks, I'm trying to work through the code by commenting out lines and seeing what happens. However, could you save me some time help me with one more iteration which only uses one of the alternate names and not Name-Used. At present it displays 'Ellen (Nellie, Nellie, Nellie Barrett) Barrett' wh...

Thank you so much. That worked like a dream. I didn't realise there was such a powerful scripting interface tucked away in the back. I'm mighty impressed. I'm an ex-COBOL and Paschal programmer. Would that help me learn this scripting language? Are there help files or tutorials anywhere? (I did noti...

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the numbers are too big to change them manually prior to each gen of the website. While the handful of key individuals is only about 10 people, the people listed in their descendant outline report number in their hundreds, though only some of them would have alter...

On my FH website I use the Descendant Outline for a handful of key individuals in my tree. The issue I have is that I would like to display alternate names for people within the outline. For example: Now: 1. John Shortland Sp. Ellen Barrett 1. James Patrick Shortland My Wish: 1. John (Jack) Shortlan...

Could we have password control over access to the generated website? This is implemented in many other genealogy website products, so it is possible. How easy it would be to implement is another question. I realy like the quick and simple integration of the web/CD feature in FH, and would prefer not...

Thank you Jane. I had a quick scan through the wishlist looking for a prior request. Obviously I scanned too fast and missed that one.

I use the Descendant Outline report for many of my Website menu items. I would like the option to select items like 'given name', 'name used', 'alt. name' for display, similar to the options in the Narrative Report. In my family, for example, we have many people named Charles. As a result, many are ...

I think FH is excellent and I would be lost without it. As a non-core function I believe the Web/CD element is very usable and produces a good website. However, I would like the option of storing larger format pictures (photos or document scans)which could be accessed by a clickable thumbnail in the...