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Born in Place: Prompts for a text string “Place” and lists all individuals whose Birth Place contains that string
Brian’s Icons: These are based on Jane’s Census and Certificate Icons and include others found useful as shown below
Build a Project from Scratch: How to create a new project.
Build a Website: At some point when researching their family history, many people consider how to put their information online
Burial Associations using Shared Witness Facts: Creating and reporting Witness shares to reveal family associations suggested by a Shared Burial plot.
Calculate the length of a marriage (How To): The function below will calculate in years the length of a marriage
Calico Pie: Calico Pie Limited is the company who have produced Family Historian software since 2002
Census: This scheme shows full names, life , and marriage date, plus the first 4 census dates, and short place information for each person on the diagram
Census: This download adds a Custom Tab for Census details, to the Individual Property Box
Census – Addresses 1841 to 1911: List to aid search on all census addresses
Census – Group: Displays census information recorded for a group of Individuals in a particular Year and Place
Census – Index: Displays in a single row the first four Individual Census Events found for all Individuals
Census – Place Lists 1841 to 1911: Selects only those Individuals with census records and shows the Place where they lived through the census years 1841-1911 in which they appeared
Census – Record Checklist All: Census checklist, including both Individual and Family Census Events
Census – The Missing Years: This query will list an entry for everyone who could potentially be included in a census, and if you have a census entry for that person
Census Auto-Text: Ancestral Sources offers Auto-Text Templates that allow transcripts to be customised
Census Events: Census Report based on the Individual Summary in order to show Census Events on both Spouse Family and Individual Census events
Census Preparation with Family Historian & Rootsmagic: Demonstrates how to drill into your Family Historian database to discover work to be completed
Census UK: This download adds a custom Census UK tab for UK Census and Electoral Roll facts, to the Individual Property Box
Census USA (sorted a-z, or z-a): These downloads add a custom Census Tab for United States census facts
Change External File Links: How to change and move media around using the Work with External File Links Tool
Change Relationships: How to modify family connections when you’ve gone wrong! Putting the children with the wrong husband, or the family with the wrong cousin
Charting, Dynamic Icon Highlights and Color Coding: How to highlight individuals etc
Check Birth Dates: Lists mothers who give birth before the age of 16 or after the age of 50 and parents (of either sex) whose children are born after their death
Check Project Statistics & Exceptions: Imported data from other programs may contain details that are inconsistent or incomplete
Chris M’s Icons: Chris M’s Icons including Census Icons with Maps, a Poppy and a Magnifying Glass
Citation Assessments: A Citation Assessment is your assessment of the credibility of the source information that led you to a particular conclusion)
Citation Details: The Citation Details Query lists all Facts – Events and Attributes, in the current file showing for each Fact what has been entered under various of the Citation and Source headings that are available for the first instance only
Citation Details – Multiple: The Citations Details – Multiple Details Query lists Facts in the file for which one or more sources have been cited
Citing Sources: Method 1 and Method 2: There are essentially two methods of adding Source Citations: Method 1 ‘source splitters’ mode where each specific document has its own Source record Method 2 ‘source lumpers’ mode where an entire class of documents has one Source record There is no one Method that should be applied universally to any Project
Clooz Export: Creates data in the format required for Clooz to import, that is: Id, Surname, Given Name, Birth Date, Marriage Date, Death Date
Common Ancestors: Asks for two people and shows any ancestors they have in common
Common Image Problems
Compact Ancestor Tree: Custom diagram type, built using the Blank Diagram option which shows 5 generations and blank boxes for missing ancestors
Compact Ancestors Diagram: A compact Ancestors chart, built as a quick and small chart
Compact With Dates: Compact scheme modified to include life and to split the name over 3 lines: Compact With DatesCompact scheme modified to include life dates and to split the name over 3 lines: (Tags: {@download_tag])
Compendium of Conversion Plugins: These Plugins have been written to adjust specific scenarios encountered by users migrating from other products
Condensed Siblings: More compact diagrams are possible if children are listed in their parent’s box instead of separate descendant boxes
Configuring Templated Sources to Use the Generic Repository Field: Generic sources are linked to repositories via a repository field, whereas by default, templated sources are linked to repositories via a template repository metafield
Contact Info: This Fact Set defines a custom Contact Info Attribute, which can be used on its own, or in conjunction with any of a custom Property Box Tab, a custom Report, and a custom Query to manage contact details for any Individual
Contact Info: This download contains a custom Property Box Tab which can be used on its own, or in conjunction with any of a custom Report, and a custom Query to manage contact details for any Individual
Contact Info Attribute: This technique creates a custom Contact Info Attribute, which can be used in conjunction with a custom Property Box Tab, custom Report, and custom Query to manage contact details for any Individual
Convert Note Records to Local Notes: Sometimes the GEDCOM imported from other programs has Note fields saved in Note Records, even when they only have a solitary link, and could be Local Notes
Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop: Right-click Copy & Paste and left/right-click Drag & Drop are standard features in all current versions of Windows, but are supported to varying degrees in different versions of Family Historian ()
Copy a Query Result Set to a Table in Notes or Book Item: A query can produce very informative tabulated data that may need to be captured in a table in either a rich text Notes field or a Free Text item in a Book
Correct Duplicate Spouses: How to correct problems where the same spouse appears twice
Country Flag Census Icons (EMF): Numbered Census Icons in EMF format for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, USA and Canada ( and a set X for NOT in )
Cousins of Named Individual: Lists Cousins of a Named Individual
Create an export GEDCOM based on a diagram: It can sometimes be useful to export all the people shown on a selected Diagram
Create Family Tree CD/DVD or Website Content: The processes for creating either a website or a Family Tree CD/DVD within Family Historian are essentially the same, and are well documented in the Help file