Re: Family Historian
Adrian Bruce
Yasmin,
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The usual advice is never to split a tree because sooner or later, someone will cross over from one branch to another. I've just found one instance so far but I'm sure that as soon as I split (not that I'm going to!) I'd find another crossover. If it's just a case of wanting easier methods to navigate, there are several things that you can do. Firstly on the Individuals tab, you can use the filters to trim stuff down to only show one family (and those who married into it, providing the options are set right, I think). E.g. set Filter for last name to XXX. If that doesn't help - e.g. one family in my tree named every first-born son George Jackson, then you can configure the columns of the Individuals tab to show the first spouse (I presume it's not the default but I set it so long ago, I've forgotten). If you right click on the grey column headings, you'll see an option "Configure Columns" or right click in the columns (apart from the first) when you'll see a "Columns.." option. Right down at the bottom, you'll see that you can add "<Other...>". That brings up the ability to "Insert Data Ref", which enables you to add all sorts of stuff - it might be best to talk about that in the FH User Group site because we can add pictures there. Another possibility to help navigation is to follow the "Old picture paints a thousand words" saying and use the Charts. The one you seem to want is "Ancestors & Descendants". Select your GF and use him as the root for an "Ancestors & Descendants" chart (the icons are on the tool bar). That will show all your GF's siblings and it will start by showing the siblings' children as well. What you need to do is click the expansion button below each set of parents to close off the children for those parents. You can do the same thing with the children born to your great-grandparents' siblings - close them off by clicking the expansion button. At some point you can then stop the tree from going higher by clicking the expansion button immediately above your GG-GPs (say). Or even close off your G-GF's parents but keep your G-GM's parents open. Once you've done this (and it's all reversible by clicking again) then save your work using the menu option Diagram / Save Diagram As / Family Historian Chart. You should use Save as a Chart, not the others, because then that can be worked on again. Open it again by menu option View / Charts / Saved Charts. The above is about navigating around your stuff - if you want to do cross checking, then as Mike says, perhaps if you can give us some instances because there are all sorts of ways to check - just as there are all sorts of things to check. Adrian On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 15:44, Mike Tate <post@...> wrote:
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