Family Historian User Group

I suddenly realised in the middle of the night that to open a second Word document etc I would click on the right mouse button - once I did that the second copy of FH opened from the icon - talk about a dimbo! :oops: Found it very useful yesterday when I was comparing the formats for two types of re...

Many thanks for your very helpful advice. :) 1) I have now successfully substituted one pdf for another improved version 2) You were right, for some reason I had change the diagrom options to black and white - I must have done it in the last few weeks and have absolutely no recollection, which is ra...

Thanks very much both of you.
I cannot open more than one instance using the icon, but I've found that I can open the second copy from the program on the start menu, and I can open more than one copy by going to the start menu rather than using the icon.

I am working through the Knowledge Base and Forum articles about creating CD/DVD /website and have a couple of queries: 1) Having reached the end of the wizard and closed it, is it possible to carry out further editing/improving at a later date, perhaps by re-opening the wizard? I cannot find a way ...

How do you open 2 instances of Family Historian at the same time?

Great, thanks.
I like easy questions too, I can understand the answer!

:roll: Is it possible to produce a list, and content, of all the 'Tips of the Day' that show on start up? I have been using FH for several years and have always had them switched on. I quite often see one that might be useful to me,though not on that occasion. By the time I need it I have probably f...

Have just downloaded this plug in - excellent, didn't realise I had so much media attached. Will help me with my current task to compare my Explorer source files with the media in FH, and with my printed off records (why have 1 record when you can have 3) as I know they have got a bit out of kilter....

OK, thanks.
Positioning it on the right does not leave enough space on the screen for the diagram, which is the view I usually use.

Is it possible to customise the appearance of the source pane below the individual record pane? I would like to hide the fields 'entry date', 'where within source' and 'text from source' - or have the option to hide them. I generally write any such details in the notes field. The aim is for the scro...

Many thanks Tatewise. The file was 166kb so that explains my uploading problem. It looks similar to your sample so I probably don't need to bother. Your example re reports seems to do exactly what I wanted so I will have another look at my data and get back if there are still any problems. Thanks al...

I usuallly work with charts, set at 'all events and attributes and rec notes, see uploaded image.  I like the way I have arranged it and would like the same layout in printed reports.  Is it possible to use the same layout in a template? I seem to remember seeing that it is not good practise to just...

Thanks, Tatewise.  I use 'FreeOCR' which works very well I find. I don't generally want to paste it into FH, my purpose being to create an electronic version of the memoirs, all 12 A4 lever arch files of it - more akin to the message posted today re (auto)biographies.  However joining several images...

tatewise said: JPEGS, and the PDF derived from them, are just like photographic images, so the PC sees them just like any other images, and cannot extract any text, perform text searches, or the like. The only solution, as you have discovered, is Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, which ...

Thanks for the information re Irfanview, I have now successfully joined together jpegs of my fathers typewritten (not word processed) memoirs.  The search facility does not work so is it possible to create some sort of index, book-marks, keyword list, to enable readers to find a reference to a parti...

I did the same sort of thing by creating a new project.  It meant I could give assign names in a way that was meaningful to my grandson, and attach a recent photo so the person is recognisable to him, which is not necesssarily one that I would want in there for posterity. eg 'Bryan Langley' in name ...

upgrade to 5.0.5 - from 5.0 Written on 22/06/12 at 14:16:02 GMT by Wilfreda99 Help please! I have just tried to upgrade and received the following error message: 'C:Program FilesFamily HistorianProgramfh.chm An error occurred while trying to rename a file in the destination directory: MoveFile faile...

OK, thanks, I hadn't thought of the address aspect.

I have a series of corrrespondence between my father and various researchers dating from 1950's and 1990's, which I have started to examine. I've scanned in pages that have new information for me to add to FH but I cannot decide whether to scan in the whole series of letters, even those that are mer...

I have the Ancestry app on my Galaxy 10.1 tablet and am similarly impressed with its ablilities, it will enable me to add details to my tree when I am out and about, which I can then cross reference to FH at home (or upload I guess). Or create new ones. The Galaxy tablet I bought comes complete with...

Any news of when version 5 will be released?

Thanks for the info, that sounds good sense. Now to measure my photos to find the best average size wallet......

Lovely lights. I have been meaning to buy some archival storage so looked on the link to My History. Obviously could spend a fortune, so I would welcome some comments as to the most important items to buy? If the certificates fade my descendants could buy some more if they want to, I guess. If I sca...

I wish someone had told me when I started family history research - by entering verious family names into search engines, usually during a wet lunchtime at work, that websites disappear, or information on them changes. Fortunately I printed the only photos I have of my grandfather but this was  main...

1) Is it possible to display thumbnail views of each report so that I can tell which report I need/wish to use?  I usually work with diagrams and find that I lose the plot before I have worked through all the many options when I need a written report. (I know they are customisable but it would be a ...