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Calculate the length of a marriage (How To)
The function below will calculate in years the length of a marriage
How to Find and Mark Twins
Identifying multiple births can be very helpful
Names, Name Parts and Name Structures
This article attempts to highlight some of the pit-falls involved in recording Names of Individuals – particularly when trying to handle names that deviate from the Anglo-Saxon practice of Given Names followed by Surname, such as: Jo Doe, Mark C
Understanding Data References
Data References refer to items of data held within Records, and are used within Expressions that occur most commonly in: Queries to specify Columns, Row filters, and Titles Diagram Text Schemes to define the content of Diagram Boxes Diagram > Options > Boxes > Conditions to define box style Reports to define Data items […]
Understanding Expressions
These are an advanced feature of Family Historian, and occur in a variety of contexts where it is needed to extract and/or act on and/or compare data values
Understanding Functions
These are an advanced feature of Family Historian, and are used within Expressions that occur most commonly in: Queries to specify Columns, Row filters, and Titles Diagram Text Schemes to define the content of Diagram Boxes Diagram > Options > Boxes > Conditions to define box style since V4 Reports to define Data items […]
Use PSPad to Format Functions
PSPad is a free text editor