Family Historian User Group

There were several programs named "Family Tree", but only one named "Family Tree Maker" which is currently owned by Software MacKiev. As you now have Family Historian, a much better program, I recommend that you take the time to learn how to import your trees from FTM to FH. Once you understand the ...

I have upgraded several computers from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free this year without any issues.

We attended RootsTech London for all three days for £49.50 entrance. Good Airbnb nearby with free parking outside the door, tea, coffee, kettle, toaster, microwave, fridge, hairdrier, wifi, lift etc for under £240 for the three nights. Travelled to RootsTech on the DLR for £1.70 each trip. ExCel was...

Simon gave a 20 minute public first look at version 7 presentation at RootsTech London. Much attention is being given to major enhancements to word processing. Also many improvements to reports, citations, website creation, diagrams etc. The feature that pleases me the most is the introduction of ve...

That is why I suggested a decade or more away. Make it a couple of decades or more away for mobile and universal coverage. But the eventual speed of rollout of FTTP and 5G may surprise us. I agree that the current WVD offerings appear to be aimed at businesses, not the general public yet. I am still...

The article I linked to suggests that many years hence Microsoft may withdraw the current Windows 10 that we install on our physical computers, and only offer a pay for version in the cloud. They will have to wait until almost everyone has a stable high speed internet connection at home which could ...

Is Family Historian likely to work on Windows Virtual Desktop?

See https://blog.eogn.com/2019/10/10/it-is- ... ou-know-it

I have created a flag "DNA proven relative" which in diagrams switches on an orange border for the boxes of the people concerned. I assign this flag to the relative in question and to the people in the paths back to our common ancestral couple. I can therefore see at a glance which lines have been p...

I don't record any references because I think they are unnecessary in this internet age.

The Focus window was introduced to emulate the main display of Generations which was a popular software at the time. I suggested it .

If you create, for example, and Ancestors and Descendants diagram with the husband who married twice as the focus, both/all wives and their descendants will be included in the diagram.

Like Adrian I too use Dropbox, and love it so much that I too pay for 1Tb. And I have always paid a little extra for unlimited storage of historical and deleted copies forever. I have Family Historian set to automatically save, and backup to Dropbox, every minute as I work. Syncing between desktop a...

Create a pdf of a relevant diagram and share the pdf as an email attachment. Diagram menu > Save Diagram As > PDF.

I am taking a completely different approach to identify in Family Historian (1) which people have taken a DNA test (2) marking the paths of proven DNA matches back to the common ancestors. (1) I have a flag "DNA" which in diagrams switches on a DNA helix logo beneath the boxes of people that have ta...

I don't see a need to crop or alter original source images such as census. Digital storage is cheap these days.

A short answer is that I use the IN PROGRESS flag that I have set to display a heavy dotted box for the person concerned in diagrams together with a "men at work" icon. Simple and effective.

I use the In Progress flag that is set to display a heavy dotted box outline for those people in diagrams together with a 'men at work' icon.

My vote is to sync via Dropbox on the cloud where I pay extra for Packrat which keeps copies of all historic versions of all of my data forever. I have been doing that continuously since 2009 with no issues. I have Family Historian set to Auto-save every minute while I work. The process is fully aut...

This is my customised list of records window columns.

This issue may or may not be related to the property box and the physical size of the monitor/screen being used. If the property box contains a lot of content such as the addition of several customised fields, on laptop screens that have a reduced vertical height, the bottom area of the property box...

My Family Historian projects are located in my Dropbox folder. Autosave set to every minute. No problems over several years.

I use and recommend Arq which automatically updates a copy of your complete Drive C in the cloud every hour.

Trevor Rix

On Ancestry you don't get overwhelmed with results if you follow this technique. Search > Search All Records Match All Terms Exactly. Make good use of wildcards ? and * to take care of mistranscriptions etc. Use the Keyword field for places instead of the Location fields. Indeed use the keyword fiel...

http://maps.familysearch.org is your answer. Be sure to investigate all of the layers and facilities. I can't praise this website provided free by FamilySearch highly enough. Truly excellent - and I don't pin that label on many things.

While waiting for an official solution, several years ago I created a new project that only includes my X chromosone ancestors.