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Thanks @David and everyone else. The only way I have used witnesses is as @Jane suggested in her post is as witnesses to events such as marriages and I have only used them when the witness has been created by Ancestral Sources. I had never seen that Witness dialogue before as I had no need for it. I...

Thanks I think I have it sorted now. I haven't found this very logical may be my age

The Facts tab for who?

I am sorry this is really not making sense.

What Witnesses dialogue? Some screenshots would help no doubt.

@Mervyn no this is on my iMac in a VM @Mike Sorry this isn't helping, the all tab is as per my screenshot from earlier. Whose all tab do I use? I don't want to delete the whole marriage. What do I click delete on this is really not clear what you are suggesting that I do?The Cog wheel does not give ...

Thanks for the reply, yes it is the standard witness role.

I do not get a delete option on right click if I am selecting the right entry. See the attached.

@Mike Say John Smith gets married and one of the witnesses to his marriage is James Smith. At that moment I do not know what relations James is to John or even if he is a relative. Using AS I create the marriage entry and record James as 'A person not in file'. Some time later I find that James is J...

Is there any way to change a witness to a marriage, for instance, to a relative of the bride / groom? I have come across a couple of instances recently where some time after creating a marriage from a PR and recording the witness that further research has ascertained that the witness is in fact a si...

Thanks again :) Which at first I thought that's silly cause seriously going to have tens of thousands of people and there load of certs. Until I realised (I hope) the source can be used for other things, such as Birth Cert could be source not just for the child, but for their parents names, parents...

I raised this with Calico Pie as suggested by @Mike

They suggested

unticking the Open Workspace Windows Remember Property Box State.

This has fixed the issue for me in Windows 10 but it did not occur for me in Windows 7. Hope this helps someone else.

Note that when FH reloads its GEDCOM like that, it is effectively starting up from scratch, the same as when you run FH initially. So whatever options apply to opening FH are applied when reloading the GEDCOM . @Mike My default view when opening FH on startup is with the Property Box open. @Lorna Y...

But you can add it as a menu item in the Tools menu tab.

I recently updated my VM from Windows 7 to Windows 10 Pro. I now have an issue that I didn't have on Win 7 . In my Surname study I often find new people to add. If the record is for instance an image of a marriage record I use Ancestral Sources to enter the new people in to Family Historian by using...

I have just updated my MacBook with the latest beta of Crossover. I did not do a reinstall just an update of Crossover and so far there are no issues with Family Historian or Ancestral Sources. This is on Mojave not Catalina, my Air won't run Catalina as it is too old.

:D :D :D :D I have just deleted the plugin and the plugin folder from the .dat folder. Downloaded the version from the first post. That has installed fine on my laptop running Crossover. The helpfile downloaded and runs. I don't believe that it is a Windows 7 problem as I updated my VM on my iMac ye...

If you do upgrade to Windows 10, download the appropriate version of Classic Shell (a free program - google for source URL) for either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. I've used it problem-free since upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10 three years ago. It lets you change the UI to be nearly iden...

Helen

I extracted the zip file and copied the entire help file folder into the .dat folder. It works perfectly.

This is what I now have in the dat folder:

Helen, nope no luck still won't download it.

They have posted that they are having technical issues with their site and are working on fixing it.

Colin, The version in the first post has been updated to use a different Help mechanism. It is that new Help mechanism that needs testing in your environment. Helen Just tried the latest version in the VM (rather than Crossover) and I still get the 'failed to download the up-to-date Help file' :( I...

A new version is included an the original post to address problems associated with Help management. Colin, in particular, can you test that this still works in your environment. Thanks. Helen What do you want me to test and in which environment? Yesterday I tested the version that was on the first ...

:oops: I have 2 Family Historian bottles in Crossover (I can't remember why). I had the pl directory installed in the wrong bottle. :oops: It is now installed in the correct bottle. Now for the good news it works perfectly with pl folder in the correct place AND the help file was downloaded and work...

Unfortunately I have the missing pl issue yet again with this. The pl folder was not present so I created it and copied the files across and still have the issue so some more research necessary. I will update later.

@Helen

Sorry to be a PITA but I don't prefer either, both would be acceptable to me. I should have some time this afternoon to try the plugin on Crossover. I will let you know what I find.

I did an experiment some while ago and successfully ran FH on a Linx Windows tablet running Windows 8 (IIRC) but as @Mike said it wasn't ideal due to the screen size. I stored the project on a micro SD card due to the limited built in storage.

Thanks @Mike