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How to Enter Accented and Other Special Characters: Family Historian V6
How to Find and Mark Twins: Identifying multiple births can be very helpful
How to Handle People With Multiple Names: Sooner or later you will come across people known by different names at different times of their lives
How to Turn Off the Splash Screen: When Family Historian starts up it displays a Splash screen
Icons With Flags: 170 icons involving flags of the world with various legends for use on diagrams: * B for Birth Event (34 icons) * M, M2, M3, M4 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Marriage Event (58 icons) * D for Death Event (34 icons) * 1890 CENSUS for Census Year Event (44 icons) Although 7 supports these […]
Importing a GEDCOM File: GEDCOM – you love it, you hate it, but you have to deal with it
Importing to Family Historian: When importing data from other family history applications, more complete and reliable import is usually achieved by reading the source file directly, rather than relying on GEDCOM
Importing/Exporting to Gedcom7 and Gedzip: How to export to a GEDCOM 7 file, and how to import from a GEDCOM 7 file
Individual Fact Citations: This Fact Query lists Citation details for Sources linked to the Facts (Individual and Family) owned by the specified Individual
Individual Multimedia: Quick overview of photos entered per individual
Individual Occupations: Occupations Report, produces a list of people with at least one Occupation recorded
Individual Timeline plus Historical Facts: This query prompts for a Key Individual and lists Facts (Events and Attributes) relevant to that person’s life
Individual Timeline plus Historical Sentences: This query prompts for a Key Individual and lists Facts Narratiove Sentences (Events and Attributes) relevant to that person’s life
Individuals List: A simple report listing of all Individuals, one per line, as requested by a ‘The Next Generation’ (TNG) user on the mailing list, for hard-copy reference purposes
Individuals updated in recent days: Simple query which prompts for a number of days and then lists only records updated in the period for the days entered
Installing and using plugins: Family Historian Plugins are available for use by every user, and provide solutions for a variety of needs
International Character Handling for Plugin Authors: Many plugin authors encounter problems handing unexpected characters
International Flags: 193 Flags of the world for use on diagrams
Internet Data Matches: For details see the V6 book “Getting the Most From Family Historian” Chapter 13 Web Search, Web Hints & Web Clipping and also Automatic Internet Data Matching plus What is Automatic Internet Data Matching and FH V6
Introducing Projects: If you are new to using Family Historian an/or migrating from another product, it is advisable to understand what projects are and why they are useful
Introducing the Focus Window: An introduction to the Focus Window, and how to print the detail it presents
Introducing the Property Box: Property Box features, customisations, and preference settings
Introduction to Ancestral Sources: Ancestral Sources is a companion product for use with Family Historian
IUP GUI Builder Hints and Tips: IUP is a very powerful tool for building graphical user interfaces (GUI), but it’s fairly unforgiving and the IUP Documentation is a little sparse especially when used with Lua
Jane’s Census and Certificate Icons: Jane Taubman’s Census and certificate icons as shown below: Produced by jane (05/03/06) Although 7 supports these BMP icons, it is awkward to make them commensurate with default EMF icons
John’s Census Icons (BMP): These are a selection of Census Icons for Canada, USA, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Isle of Man: Produced by johnmorrisoniom (03/12/11) Although 7 supports these BMP icons, it is awkward to make them commensurate with default EMF icons
Judaism: Responding to a suggestion from Simon Orde of Calico Pie, this is a first shot at a simple fact set to cover Jewish religious events
Key Features for Newcomers: If you are new to Family Historian, and especially if you are new to genealogy, these are the topics worth reading before you commit much data to your tree
Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts: Family Historian supports a number of Keyboard shortcuts
Kinsfolk Census Done Report: This query evolved from the earlier Census – The Missing Years download
Kinsfolk Census To Do Table: This query evolved from the earlier Census – The Missing Years download
Kinsfolk Facts: This Facts Set includes many facts – all Attributes that allow Values, although some are strictly Events
KK’s US Census Icons: BMP Icons for US Census years 1820 through 1940
LDS Church Support in Version 8: 8 can record the ordinances of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and include them in reports and queries
Line of Ascent: The query will list the direct line of ascent from the “Starting Person” to the “Ending Person”
Line of Descent: The query will list the direct line of descent from the “Starting Person” to the “Ending Person”
Linked Individuals: Returns a person of interest together with all of the people connected to them
Linking Media Files to Facts, Events and Individuals: This video demonstrates how to create simple and frame links to faces using Family Historian 7
List Baptisms and Burials for Places: This a Fact Query which lists Baptisms and Burials in the current file relating to a specified Place, sorted by Fact and then in ascending Date order
List Single Relation Pool: Prompts for a Relation Pool number and lists all members of that pool
Living in List: Simple Query which lists everyone in a Named List called “Living”, that can be used in conjunction with the Split Tree function
Living List: Can be used to load the Individual Records Window with a column of tick boxes for a “Living” Named List
Living List Create: Query to attempt to identify all living people, that can be used to create a “Living” Named List
Location: Shows the Date and Place of Birth plus the Date and Place of Death locations for every person
Lua Code Snippets: Plugin developers may find these Lua snippets useful
Lua References and Library Modules: Lua Language References versions 5 & 6 version 7 version 8 Notes Lua version 5
Making Branches Stand Out: Improve the look of Family Historian diagrams by colouring tree branches distinctively to make them stand out
Male Lines: This Query selects only male descendants of a male start person
Maps in Version 8: The Map Window in 8 can do a good deal more than show markers
Marker Sets in the Map Window: Tutorial by Calico Pie on the Map Window, showing how to add multiple sets of markers to a map, and how to use the time slider