It is a common requirement to be able to remember which records you are working on between sessions of using Family Historian. Since \u0192h<\/span><\/span>7 there is one automatic mechanism: tick Display the Last-Used Focus Person in the Focus Window<\/em> on the Startup tab of Tools > Preferences<\/a> and the Focus Window opens on whoever it showed when the project was last closed (FH8 help<\/a>). It covers only the focus person, so the techniques described below are still useful, and in some ways better.<\/p>\n In the Records Window, on the tabs for most record types, there is an Updated<\/em> column that holds a date-time stamp of when each record was last changed. Click on the Updated column heading to sort by it, then (\u0192h<\/span><\/span>8) click again, or (\u0192h<\/span><\/span>7 and earlier) hold down the ALT key and click, to list the most recent changes first.<\/p>\n If that is likely to be regularly used, then change the default sort order. Right-click on the Updated column heading and choose Sort Descending.<\/p>\n In the Records Window use Lists > Named Lists Pane<\/a> to display the Named Lists<\/em> on the right. Any records of any type can be added to any Named List to provide shortcuts to all the records you are working on. See Using Named Lists<\/a> for details of this extremely powerful technique.<\/p>\n In \u0192h<\/span><\/span> Version 6 and below the Focus Window<\/em> initially displays the File Root. So to remember the Individual you are working on, temporarily make them the File Root. Display them in the Focus Window, then right-click their box and choose Make File Root<\/em> before closing the session. In the next session it is just as easy to restore your usual File Root.<\/p>\nRecords Window Updated Column<\/h2>\n
Records Window Named Lists<\/h2>\n
Focus Window File Root<\/h2>\n
Create Individual Shortcut Plugin<\/h2>\n