Searching and Querying – Family Historian User Group

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An Overview of Queries in Version 7 and below: According to the Family Historian Help file “A query is a reusable set of instructions for extracting information from a Family Historian file
An Overview of Queries in Version 8: According to the Family Historian Help file “A query is a reusable set of instructions for extracting information from a Family Historian project
An Overview of Smart Folders: Smart Folders arrived in Version 8 and have no equivalent in earlier versions
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
Census Preparation with Family Historian & Rootsmagic: Demonstrates how to drill into your Family Historian database to discover work to be completed
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
Creating a Custom Query: Sooner or later, most users of have a question about their data that can be answered using a Custom Query
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
How to Find and Mark Twins: Identifying multiple births can be very helpful
Searching and Filtering: There are times when a Query is overkill — you simply want, for example, to locate a single individual in your data, or to find all occurrences of a particular phrase, or to replace instances of a word
Split Tree Helper: This is covered in the manual Getting the Most From Family Historian in either Chapter 14 – Merging, Comparing and Splitting Tree Files or in later editions Chapter 15 – Compare, Merge, Split, Copy and Export GEDCOM Files
Using Family Historian to Report Missing Burial Photos: A basic introduction to the power of the Family Historian Query Builder, and also the Search facilities.