V8 – Family Historian User Group

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1921 English Census Autotext for Text from Source: Family historian does not (as at November 2023) come with accurate Autotext for the Source from Text for the 1921 England and Wales Census, so one is provided here
2021 Converted Icons: This is a set of Icons extracted from all of the FHUG ‘Diagram Icons’ converted into the new “emf” format used by 7
5th Generation Sideways Fan: This custom diagram type is only valid for V5, and shows a Fan Chart that has the fifth generation rotated
6×4 Record Card – with Sources: A 6×4 Individual Record Card template for storing your data as an index card
6×4 Record Card – without Sources: A 6×4 Individual Record Card template without sources (to save card space) for storing your data as an index card
6×4 Source Card: A 6×4 Source Card template for storing your data as an index card
A Primer on Using Diagrams and Charts: Caroline O’Neil has written a primer on Using Diagrams and Charts in Version 7; click on the image to view
Accessibility: Visual Customization and Quick Navigation: People with visual impairments face significant challenges using computers due to inaccessible design
Add a Person to an Existing Ancestral Sources Entry: If a person is missed off when an entry is created with Ancestral Sources, then they can only be added afterwards with Family Historian
Add Media to a Fact: Adding media to a fact by selecting a file
Add People Using a Diagram: Using Family Historians diagram editing feature to add new people into your database.
Add Pictures Using Media Window: Add pictures to a Family Historian project using the Media Window
Add Text Boxes to Diagrams: Working with the All Relatives diagram and adding and customising text boxes
Add Witnesses: How to use the Witnesses feature to record special roles of participants in events
Adding a New Person in Ancestral Sources: If when using Ancestral Sources to add a data entry you find it refers to a person who you want to be part of your GEDCOM file, but is not currently recorded, then you can add them directly in Ancestral Sources
Adding Other Media: Scanned or downloaded document Image Files such as JPEG or PNG can be added in a similar fashion to photographs, but would typically be linked to the Media tab of Source Records
Adding the First Person to a File: An animated tutorial showing the process of adding the first person to a new file and using Diagram Drag to add people to a tree
Adding, Customising and Sharing Source Templates in Versions 7 and 8: Many users will never need/choose to customise Source Templates but everyone who uses them will need to add some to their project
Age at Birth of First Child: Shows the age of each person at the birth of the first child of the first marriage
Age at Death Male Line: This query show the Age at Death for the Male line of a selected person
Age at Marriage V2: A version of the Age at Marriage standard query, which includes all married people with birth dates even if they do not have a date for their first marriage
Age Discrepancies: A listing of individuals with events where the age entered for the event differs from the age calculated from the birth date at the date of the event
Age Today: Simple Query which lists all people, who are alive (e
Ages on Census: This query shows the census entries you have for all individuals, except those born after 1901 or who died before 1841
Ahnentafel by Generation: Lists an individual’s ancestors, sorted according to the Ahnentafel/Kekulé numbers
Ahnentafel with Generation and Kekulé Numbers: This report lists an ancestry table (Ahnentafel) generation by generation, including Kekulé numbers
Alive and Age at Date: Lists all individuals (who have birth and/or death date recorded) alive at a given date (entered via a prompt)
Alive and Age at Date with Places: Lists all Individuals who are alive at a given date (entered via a prompt)
Alive at 1841 Census: List to aid search on 1841 census
Alive at 1901 Census: List to aid search on 1901 census
All About Sources in Family Historian: This video tries to explain all about sources in Family Historian! What are sources? What is a citation? What is the difference between a splitter (method 1) and lumper (method 2) source? What are generic and templated sources? What is a rich-text source? (The video was made for version 7; version 8 adds a third, […]
All Empty Facts: Finds all Facts (Events/Attributes) without any subordinate fields
All Facts Filter by Date: A filtered list of facts – events and attributes, in the current file, in ascending date order
All Facts Filter by Label: A filtered list of facts – events and attributes, in the current file, in ascending date order
All Facts Filter by Text: A filtered list of facts (events or attributes) in the current file, in ascending date order
All Facts on Day, Month: A complete list of Facts – Events and Attributes, in the current file, for a specified day and month
All Relations and In-Laws: This query is only really a base for selecting “family” rather than relations and add a couple of generations of the spouses family to the mix for use on a split tree
All Relatives Diagram: This diagram shows all blood relations & their spouses with respect to the selected Diagram Root person or couple
An Overview of Diagrams and Charts: One of Family Historian’s strengths is its interactive Diagrams and Charts, which can be used in a number of ways: Browsing and exploring your tree visually Entering and editing data Navigating to an individual of interest Producing a Chart to share information with others These possibilities as well as the differences between a Diagram and […]
An Overview of Queries in Version 8: According to the Family Historian Help file “A query is a reusable set of instructions for extracting information from a Family Historian project
An Overview of Reporting: Reports allow you to view your data (or a subset of your data) in various formats that you can use to check aspects of your data entry, or and/or share that data with others
An Overview of Smart Folders: Smart Folders arrived in Version 8 and have no equivalent in earlier versions
Ancestor and Descendant Diagram: This is a fusion of the Ancestor Diagram and Descendant Diagram for a Diagram Root person or couple
Ancestor Diagram: An Ancestor Diagram (known on some other programs as a pedigree chart, especially when shown in a left to right format) shows the ancestors of a selected Individual person or Family couple known as the Diagram Root
Ancestor Outline with all Events: Report Type : Ancestor Outline with all events shown
Ancestors Plus Spouse and Children: Allows you select a start person and lists all ancestors plus their spouses, and their children plus their spouses
Ancestors with Age at Date: Prompts for a Root person and a year, and then shows all Ancestors of that person “probably” alive at the date selected
Ancestors’ Census Places: This Query extracts all Ancestors for a specified person, excluding those who died before 1841 or were born after 1911, and shows the Census Place for each year for which an entry has been made in the file
Ancestors’ Missing Census Entries: This Query extracts all Ancestors for a specified person, excluding those who died before 1841 or were born after 1911, and indicates for each year whether a Census entry has been entered for that Ancestor
Ancestors’ Missing Census, Sources and Images: This Query extracts all Ancestors for a specified person, and Siblings of those Ancestors, excluding those who died before 1841 or were born after 1911