{"id":10725,"date":"2020-07-09T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fhug.org.uk\/kb\/?post_type=kb_article&#038;p=10725"},"modified":"2020-12-25T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T10:15:35","slug":"overview-of-getting-around-family-historian","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/kb-article\/overview-of-getting-around-family-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview of Getting Around Family Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get the most out of the Family Historian program and this Knowledge Base, it&#8217;s important that you make yourself familiar with the program&#8217;s user interface (and its terminology)\u00a0 and the way it structures the information it holds.<\/p>\n<p>Most of what you need to know is in the <span class=\"fh\" style=\"font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 21.4286px !important;\">\u0192<span style=\"color:#73B262; font-weight: bold;\">h<\/span><\/span> help file, but if you&#8217;re new to <span class=\"fh\" style=\"font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 21.4286px !important;\">\u0192<span style=\"color:#73B262; font-weight: bold;\">h<\/span><\/span> you should also review the <a href=\"https:\/\/fhug.org.uk\/kb\/quick-start-guide-2\/\">Quick Start<\/a> guide to get an overview of the most important things. For your convenience, we&#8217;ll provide links to the important sections of the Help file here.<\/p>\n<h2>Menus and Toolbars<\/h2>\n<p>Menus are covered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.family-historian.co.uk\/help\/fh6\/hh_start.htm#menus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Menus<\/a>, and Toolbars are covered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.family-historian.co.uk\/help\/fh6\/hh_start.htm#toolbars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toolbars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Workspace Windows and Dialog Boxes<\/h2>\n<span class=\"fh\" style=\"font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 21.4286px !important;\">\u0192<span style=\"color:#73B262; font-weight: bold;\">h<\/span><\/span> calls its main application windows &#8216;Workspace Windows&#8217;. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.family-historian.co.uk\/help\/fh6\/hh_start.htm#main_windows.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Workspace Windows<\/a> for an overview and links to detail about each window, and also links to information about the main dialog boxes you will encounter.<\/p>\n<h2>Records<\/h2>\n<span class=\"fh\" style=\"font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 21.4286px !important;\">\u0192<span style=\"color:#73B262; font-weight: bold;\">h<\/span><\/span> has up to twelve different record types. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.family-historian.co.uk\/help\/fh6\/hh_start.htm#recordtypes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Record Types (V6)<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.family-historian.co.uk\/help\/fh7\/hh_start.htm#recordtypes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Record Types (V7)<\/a> for detail.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Place Records were introduced in <span class=\"fh\" style=\"font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 21.4286px !important;\">\u0192<span style=\"color:#73B262; font-weight: bold;\">h<\/span><\/span> version 6. Research Notes and Source Template Records were introduced in Version 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","fh_version":[13,14,15,739],"skill_level":[16],"topic":[67],"class_list":["post-10725","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","fh_version-v4","fh_version-v5","fh_version-v6","fh_version-v7","skill_level-newcomer","topic-getting-around-fh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/10725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fh_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fh_version?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"skill_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skill_level?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}