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Lorna - Makes perfect sense when you describe it that way Thanks

Mike- Thanks for that, works perfectly

Sorry Mike I didn't mean the orientation didn't work in all relatives I meant moving up and down the trees with the direction arrows didn't work. If you start at yourself say and move up the tree it doesn't stay with your family (paternal) and then when you try to come back down it can get trapped i...

The Ancestors Diagram works perfectly once I change the orientation run Right-Left (Bit counter intuitive, as I would call this Left-Right :roll: ). I only realised I could do this reading a computer magazine today, so someone obviously knew I was going to ask this question and helpfully wrote an ar...

Peter Does that mean no there isn't a way to do it in FH? FTM has the same restrictions of how many generations are shown on screen (up to 5), it just moves to the next generation up if you keep pressing the right arrow. I am hoping there is a way to do it although with no answers so far I am not ho...

Hi I have just noticed this and don't know why I haven't noticed it before as I used to use this feature all the time when I used FTM. When I have my family tree in Ancestors (Pedigree view) in the Focus Window I can't move about the tree using the arrow keys, yes I can move about what is on the scr...

Mike That's the same with everything. Remember when the Internet was like lightening when broadband first came out, then dial up pretty much disappeared and the Internet Web pages became filled with pictures, videos and adverts. Internet pages took longer to load until fibre appeared, now we have st...

How many people have freely chosen to move to Windows 10? Microsoft has the muscle to get it as the default OS on new laptops, and it withdraws support for the old OS Me for one, I like Windows 10 and have to say I find it the best OS I have used. How many other operating systems write drivers for ...

Gowermick How's Windows 3 and Family Historian V1 coming along for you? Surely the world advances and software along with it probably the reason you are using FH6.2.7 and Windows 10 and not a quill and parchment. What would you do if FH went down the ribbon route (which works very well if you give i...

Cheers Colin

Cheers Mike I will have a look the Knowledge Base

Two last questions- 1 I take it you mean Mike's plugin and not Jane's? 2 Does the plug in back up the plugins that I have installed or should I keep a note of them separately? And thanks for the advice Helen. Maybe CP should do away with the need for these plugins by adding it as an option in the pr...

Helen So a backup should keep a copy of all my settings. I always back up after I finish working with FH but when I reinstalled my project in FH after my laptop was returned from the manufacturer, only my project was installed. The settings were all back to the original way FH looked before I made t...

Jane You say "Most of the colours for FH are controlled by the windows theme colours", which ones? I ask as none of FH looks like my Windows theme. I have no intention of moving to Heredis or any other for that matter, I like FH but I personally just feel it looks a bit dated. That is my view and as...

Trevor Some advice I was given by (I think) Mike Tate was that you can change the orientation of the property box and it works well on a laptop. You can have the box and source pane side by side instead of on top of each other. Helen I don't really think that there is that much wrong with how FH6 wo...

I know that Calico Pie haven't really said anything about FH7 since they first announced it at Roots Tech. My question to anyone who was at the demonstration, what does FH7 look like? Has it been given a more modern make over for 2020 or is it just the same as FH6 in looks. I am a fan of FH but have...

Adrian

Remember GROS is now merged and called NRS (National Records Of Scotland)

These are the descriptions at the top of 3 original Scottish Birth Certificates dated 1876, 1962 & 1995. Hope this helps.

For those using Windows 10, don't forget you can remove your anti-virus and use Windows Defender which is free and integrated into Windows Security. It is now as good, if not better than most anti-virus software (especially free) and doing this will allow you to rule out if your problem lies with th...

Mike I see what you are saying but I kind of think GEDCOM compatibility is only of use if you plan on moving. I know it is used in other things but if I had a program that did everything I wanted of it (very well) and was 100% non compliant and there was a program 100% compliant but was only average...

I've put my kevlar vest on for this reply, so here goes. I have mentioned this before, but if it was me moving to a Mac I would be looking for the best genealogy software for that platform and making the change. In my view FH is the best genealogy software, full stop, but if my other requirements me...

Hi BobWard It may just have been an update to Windows that has changed the default viewer for a .pdf file, Microsoft Edge is Windows 10's default viewer (there has been a Microsoft Edge update lately). You can change it back by typing "default" into the search bar next to the start button in the bot...

A belated Merry Christmas, but an early Happy New Year to you all.

I have to say a simple to-do list would be nice, but I have now looked at the Named Lists recommended to me on here and have to say that between them and a separate Family Tree- Outlook To-do list are more than enough for me. I can live with working this way if no Task/to-do list ever appeared.

This was one of the reasons for my re-do. When I transferred from FTM, about 1/3 of the addresses transferred into the Note field in FH and 2/3 transferred into the Address field even though the Place's transferred okay. I would imagine it's the reason Genealogy software manufacturers like to give y...

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20 Nov 2019 09:50

But there are significant costs both for VMWare Fusion (£70+) and Windows 10 (£100+) on top of the FH licence.

Wow, almost cheaper buying a Windows laptop just to run FH.

In reply to the OP, I found this on the my-History.co.uk web store in the buy now and get a free upgrade to FH7 section- "When version 7 is released (most likely in the first quarter of 2020), buyers will be supplied with a new licence code and will be required to download the version 7 upgrade from...