GEDCOM
In theory exporting your GEDCOMGEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. It is a file format that most genealogical programs and online trees recognise. file from Family Historian can be done as simply as sending the .GED file located within your ProjectA Project is a Windows folder, created by Family Historian, which contains all your Family Tree information recorded in Family Historian. Normally located in the Documents\Family Historian Projects folder. folder. However, in many cases it is much easier to decide exactly what you want to send to the contact, and remove excess information before you start. Both of these processes can be done using File > Import/Export > Export > GEDCOM File and / or the Split Tree Helper.
There are many things to consider when exporting data to another user, not least the privacy of the data that you already have on hold. Both tools mentioned above can help by removing living people using a queryQuerying is a very powerful feature that allows you to specify and save criteria for identifying a set of records of a given record type., and exclude record type data that another program may not understand. To remove specific eventsEvents are things that happened to an Individual and Attributes are things that described them., or local notesFamily Historian version 6 and below supports two types of Notes: Local notes (associated with a single person, record, or fact); and Note Records (sometimes called Shared Notes), that can be linked to multiple records and/or facts. Version 7 introduced, use the Split Tree Helper.
Other products may not understand Multimedia RecordsWhen you add a picture, video, sound recording, document file etc into a Family Historian project, a Media record is created to represent that media item within the project; the Media record includes a link to the actual Media file., Repository RecordsA repository is a place (physical or online) where collections of original source data are stored and maintained., Place RecordsAccording to GEDCOM, a Place should hold "The jurisdictional name of the place where the event took place…" , and sometimes even Source RecordsSource: "where information was found". This could be anything from an archive in a county records office, a book, or even a relative's recorded recollection. Citing your Sources helps to show how you reached a particular conclusion about an Individual.. This is especially true of online trees on FamilySearch, Ancestry, FindMyPast etc, which are predominantly designed to share very basic information and not the levels of information which are typically stored in Family Historian. The Export Gedcom File PluginPlugins are small programs that allow new features to be added without upgrading Family Historian itself; some plugins are written by Calico Pie and others are written by users. is useful for exporting in the specific GEDCOM dialect required for other genealogy products.
Diagrams
Diagrams can be exported in a variety of formats by simply using the Save Diagram As dialogue on the File or Diagram menu. This includes PNG format, and a selection of standard formats including EMF, bitmap, tiff and Photoshop format. However many users prefer to use PDFThe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe to present documents in their original formatting, independent of software, hardware, and operating systems. PDF files can contain text, graphics, links, and buttons, form fields, audio, video, and as this is globally recognized and easy for many users to read. See how to create Single Page PDF of a Diagram either using later versions of Family Historian or a third party program.