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Creating a Book: A book containing as much or as little information as you require on an individual, their family, their ancestors or descendants
Creating a Custom Query: Sooner or later, most users of have a question about their data that can be answered using a Custom Query
Custom Reports: Custom Report Types are derived from Standard Report Types by using the command or the Save Report As… button in the righthand pane
Customising Colour Schemes: Caroline O’Neill has written a primer on Customising Colour Schemes in version 7; click on the image to view
Customising Display for Generic Sources to Resemble V6 (Versions 7 and 8): Some people who upgrade to Family Historian 7 to take advantage of some of its new features (such as formatted text) will prefer to continue using Generic Sources rather than adopting Templated Sources, perhaps to maintain consistency with data previously entered, or because they do not want to learn a new way of working, […]
Customising Family Historian: A Migrant’s Experience: TMG migrant Phil Leslie explains how he customised Family Historian preferences to his own needs.
Death Details: This query is useful for tidying up gaps in the data file
Delete a Custom Diagram, Fact Set, Plugin, Query, Record Flag, Report, etc: Family Historian offers many customisations, most of which can be removed as easily as they are created, but there are some exceptions
Delete Data for Living People: It is usually necessary to delete the data for living people from your database, before publishing it to a wider audience such as on a website
Delete One or Many Records: There are numerous techniques for doing this
Descendant Diagram: One of the classic charts shows only direct descendants of a Diagram Root person or couple
Descendant Outline with all Events: Descendant Outline with All Events shown 1 per line
Descendants by Family Group: Descendants by Family Group, based on a Start person, this lists all descendants by generation
Descendants V2: Lists all the Descendants of two chosen Start Persons, ordered as for a Descendants Chart, and including life dates, spouse, father, mother, and sex
Descendants with Spouses: Simple Descendants list with their spouses
Diagram Tips: This summarises some little known tips and tricks with Diagrams
Diagrams in Version 8: Version 8 of has a new graphics engine, which uses the graphics card where there is one, so diagrams draw faster and look different
Direct Line: Allows you select two people at the start and end of a line of ancestors, and gives you all the people in that line with their spouses and children, plus their spouses
Display long text such as Notes: In a Query Column or Records Window Column any long text such as Note fields and Text From Source fields are truncated at about 150 characters with an ellipsis … This workaround will display the full text
DNA: best tests and methods (Peter Calver): Choosing the right DNA test and using the simplest techniques to make the most of that DNA result is a game changer in genealogy research
Duplicate Sources for Fact: This looks at the first seven Sources for a given Fact, but only includes a Fact in the Result Set if two of the Sources are the same
Duplicate Spouses: This Query reads through all Families comparing the first 3 spouses of each husband, and lists the Families where the man has the same spouse twice
Editing an Existing Entry: Ancestral Sources supports the creation of entries, but does not support the editing of entries (except for Adding Images to Sources)
Electoral Roll: Add this Fact Set to enable you to record entries from the Register of Electors
England and Wales GRO Birth Index 1984-2000: This query lists all the Individuals that should appear in the ‘England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index 1984-2000’ based on the Date & Place held in the Birth event
England and Wales GRO Death Index 1984-2002: This query will list all the Individuals that should appear in the ‘England and Wales, Civil Registration Death Index 1984-2002’ based on the values held in the Date & Place in the Death event
England and Wales GRO Marriage Index 1984-2000: This query lists all Individuals who should appear in the ‘England and Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index 1984-2000’ based on the Date & Place held against the first Marriage for a couple
Enhanced Death and Burial: Add this Fact Set to add new Death Facts
Enter Census (Video Tutorials): These videos show how to add a Census entry, and each one summarises its associated scripted tutorial, which provides more explanation and references
Entering Ages: When you are entering the information from a source, you may find you have an Age to record; this will be the age of the Individual at the time the Event happened or the Attribute was true, according to the information in the Source(s) that you have
Entering Dates: When you enter a Fact, you’ll almost always have the option to enter a Date for the Fact
Entering Standard and Custom Fields for Facts: When using most Facts, the standard Fields of Age, Date, Place, Address & Note are usually sufficient but sometimes extra fields are desirable
Everyone Diagram: This shows every Individual in your Project whether they are related or not
Export: GEDCOM In theory exporting your GEDCOM file from Family Historian can be done as simply as sending the
Export FH to Access: Produces basic details on all individuals
Exporting a Family Tree with/without Media: The main purposes for exporting a Family Tree GEDCOM file with or without Media are: To create a subset Project using
Exporting Templated Sources: Family Historian Version 7 introduced Sources created from Source Templates, which are underpinned by -specific GEDCOM extensions which will not export readily to other products (such as website generators, GEDCOM tools, or other genealogy products and services)
Fact Flags: Family Historian version 7 introduced the ability to set flags on Facts, and version 8 lets you add flags of your own (see the end of this article)
Facts Linked to a Source: A list of Facts (Events or Attributes) linked to a specified Source, provided that the Source is one of the first six Citations for a Fact
Facts with Undefined Type: Lists all facts, where the fact type is not included in any active Fact set
Families Common to 3 Named Lists: Returns families who occur in each of 3 specified pre-populated Named Lists, that are prompted for on running the query
Families with a Child of a Specified Name: Returns families who have a child with a specified given name, which is prompted for on running the query
Family Group Sheet: Lists the people who are descendants (1 generation) or spouse of a selected person, and provides the basis for a Family Group Sheet, but does not contain all the columns
Family Group Sheet – Short: Short Family Group Sheet, no photos or sources, but Birth Marriage, Spouse Name fields are shown even if blank
Family Group Sheet and Blanks: Family Group sheet which prints labels and lines to encourage people to fill in the missing data
Family Group Sheet and Detailed Blanks: A more comprehensive fill in the blanks family group page
Family Historian 8 and FamilySearch User Trees (CET’s): Discover how FamilySearch and Family Historian 8 work together to transform your genealogy workflow
Family Historian Activation: Family Historian 7 introduced online activation, and Version 8 uses the same system
Family Historian Birth & Death Informant & Other Witness Roles: Family Historian V6 introduced Fact Witnesses and Ancestral Sources can optionally use them to record the Informant of a Birth or Death event
Family Historian Census Event for UK 1939 Register: At the outbreak of World War II, the British people were required to register in order to obtain identity cards, ration books, etc