{"id":13233,"date":"2026-09-23T10:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/?post_type=kb_article&#038;p=13233"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:16:18","slug":"whats-new-in-the-knowledge-base-for-version-8","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/kb-article\/whats-new-in-the-knowledge-base-for-version-8\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in the Knowledge Base for Version 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page records changes made to the Knowledge Base for Family Historian 8. For the new features themselves, and the new articles that cover them, see <a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/whats-new-in-family-historian-8\/\">What&#8217;s New in Family Historian 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where a feature works differently in Version 8, the older article has usually been kept for users of Version 7 and earlier, with &#8220;in Version 7 and Below&#8221; added to its title, and a new article sits beside it.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Articles Updated for Version 8<\/h2>\n<p>These articles have new or revised sections for Version 8 that are not covered in What&#8217;s New in Family Historian 8.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/key-features-for-newcomers\/\">Key Features for Newcomers<\/a> is now written for Version 8.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/family-historian-copy-and-migration-guide\/\">Family Historian Copy and Migration Guide<\/a>: the new Backup\/Restore Settings command.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/geocoding-and-the-map-window\/\">Geocoding and the Map Window<\/a>: geocoding addresses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/finding-records-linked-to-a-source\/\">Finding Records Linked to a Source<\/a>: Record Links and the Citation query type.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/exporting-templated-sources\/\">Exporting Templated Sources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/recording-dna-matches\/\">Recording DNA Matches<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/lua-references-and-library-modules\/\">Lua References and Library Modules<\/a>: library versions in Version 8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many other articles have had smaller changes, such as menu names and help links. Every article that applies to Version 8 is on the <a href=\"\/kb\/fh-version\/v8\/\">Version 8 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","fh_version":[826],"skill_level":[17,16],"topic":[68],"class_list":["post-13233","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","fh_version-v8","skill_level-intermediate","skill_level-newcomer","topic-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/13233","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=13233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fh_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fh_version?post=13233"},{"taxonomy":"skill_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skill_level?post=13233"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=13233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}