Family Historian User Group

If you wish to continue using Family Historian on your Mac, you can easily do so by using a Virtual Machine (Parallels or Fusion 13). I have recently changed from Win 10 PCs to Mac Sonoma with Win 11 running on a Virtual Machine. FH 7.0.22 installed without issues. Having backed up my data, I saved ...

I propose the following to introduce Abbreviated Place Names into FH reports and charts: Issue My forebears were mostly 19th century migrants from England, Scotland and Ireland who went to the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and NZ. As these outposts of the Empire were settled, many localities w...

Hi Jane,

I raised this topic to begins with and would like to see it progress. What is needed to create the new wish list item? I am new to this aspect so need some guidance.

Regards,
Ron

Hi Nick,

I have downloaded AS v 7.6.11 and will check it out over the next few days to see if I see birth data not updating.

Thank you all for your support of the idea and the alternate options provided. From a conceptual point of view, IMO, the solution must be user centric i.e. developed with the focus being easy for a basic user to use. I appreciate the alternate solutions provided; they will be OK for short term use w...

Thanks for your response Nick.

I had the "Offer to create birth facts..." box ticked but the "...even if existing birth includes place and date" box was not ticked.

Would this be the cause of what I was seeing?

My forebears were mostly 19th century migrants from England, Scotland and Ireland who went to the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and NZ. As these outposts of the Empire were settled, many localities were given place names from the UK. Thus there are multiple places with names such as Hamilton, ...

I have been using AS 7.6.8 to enter information from the 1939 Register. Having entered the information into AS, when I save the information I get the screen asking if I wanted to update birth information previously entered (outside AS). I have selected (variously) no change, update birth place only,...

I recently put together a number of charts for my family. In an early 2020/21 FHUG post there was information about the use of FH and PDF Creator. Producing the charts was accomplished by printing to PDFCreator (free!) from FH. As part of PDFCreator, the size of the desired page can be specified and...

In the note associated with Birth Index entries, I also include the mother's maiden name (mmn) when provided. This records all the information included in the Index entry and helps resolve conflicting information. Similarly, for Death Index entries, I also include the age at death/birth date include...

Hi Mike, I have not been able to identify a case where a principal has been added as a witness for the work that I have been doing recently. I managed to find a bit in the knowledge base related to TMG imports where principals could be included as a witness for the role. I think that this is most li...

No, this is Family Historian only. What I am finding is that having added fact entries for individuals, I go back later to find that there are Witness entries for them as the principal(s) for the event entered. When I first started using FH a year or so ago, everything appeared to be working as inte...

I am finding that for facts such as births, marriages and deaths, the principal is automatically being added as a witness in addition to the fact entry. The result is that the sentences associated with fact the become a combination of the fact and witness sentences e.g. "He/She was a Child at B...

This was a very timely post, I had the same problem; the knowledge base was very helpful. I downloaded and installed PDF Creator. With this, I was able to make a single page PDF of a family tree chart that would take five A0 sheets to print. PDF Creator has a page size limit of 5050 mm in both heigh...

As a former TMG user, the ability to change a Fact type being added to FH would be useful - TMG allowed Tag types to be changed. TMG also allowed the individuals linked to a Tag to changed. These features were particularly useful when correcting errors in the database. From the threads above, it is ...

I am another who updated to V7 but reverted to V6; in my case it was because of the changes to the Outline Descendant report. I would like to use V7 as my primary version and export the information to V6 when I need the Outline Descendant report. Is it possible to have V6 and V7 installed on the sam...

I am successfully operating FH7 on a home desktop and a laptop using Dropbox. I installed FH7 on to both computers and set up the database (project) on the desktop, as normal. Once this was up and running satisfactorily, and backed up, the project in FH7 was closed and then FH7 closed. I then copied...

I have also raised a support ticket on this item. The response from CP is not encouraging: "Sorry it is not currently possible to do in the new report engine I have logged your feedback for the developers." At the moment, it seems the options are to either revert to V6.2.7 (if possible) or...

Hi David, I have just tried rewording the probate fact sentence but the result has an additional "on" and "in" from the original sentence in it. I can make the sentence look exactly like yours but these additional words remain. I am new to FH so would appreciate some assistance i...

I agree with Maxi on this subject - the V7 Descendants Outline report is a major step down from the V6.2 version. Any report must be 'user centric' in that it is written and structured to meet the needs of the reader (who is always the primary user of any report). The V6.2 version was a good example...

Thanks Mike - I look forward to the future update.

Hi, I recently moved to FH from TMG and have now upgraded to Version 7. In the transition from TMG to FH, place names and addresses have become a little bit of a mess because of the different structures in FH. The Rearrange Address and Place Parts plug-in looks like the ideal tool to clean-up the ad...