Jackson, If you know what product your friends and family use then the Export Gedcom File plugin will produce a tailored GEDCOM for them. As you say there are plenty of suitable free products not

Frank, Export a Gedcom file periodically and email to your friends and family, images are not contained within a Gedcom, just file links so the files are relatively small. Advantages are they can

Mike Super, thank you. Very helpful indeed Frank

Hi Frank, As with most purchased software, there are licence terms & conditions. For example, you no doubt know that most Microsoft products are restricted to the devices they are allowed to be

Mike I was really interested to read your reply to Liz about the use of the license for FH being restricted to just 2 laptops. I am fairly new to FH and have set it up on two home PC's as an extra

Thank you for the assistance.

I am trying to add a Source from the 1911 Ireland Census. When I go to Add text to Source I get options like Canada, UK and USA. I click on UK and then 1911 UK Census. But the text isn't correct. It

Hi Robert, I think you are over-complicating things. Here are two simpler methods: 1) Use File > Project Window > More Tasks > Copy Project and in the copy delete whatever Individual records are

I have a cousin listed under my root project in which I have entered several of his ancestors. Is it possible to create a new/additional project in Family Historian with my cousin being a new root

Thank you Liz https://sussexheritage.blogspot.com/

Hi Liz, I assume that you are going to stop using your old laptop with FH after the migration. In that case, I suggest you perform the migration with FH V6 first. You are familiar with its settings

Is if best to upgrade to v7 on my old laptop and make sure it works there first or is it better to put v6 on the new laptop with my existing settings, import my data and then update. Thank you Liz

Names like "Germany" have been around for centuries and are no more made up than any name in any language is made up. The tricky part with "Germany" - or "Deutschland" - is knowing when to use it and

The demonym "Finland" appears on Finnish stamps etc. not to make life easier for English-speakers, but to acknowledge the 10% or so of the Finnish population whose first language is Swedish

Thank you for responding Mike. This has nothing to do with DNA. As you said I meant anyone directly linked to me - therefore excluding spouses. Jackson has been a lot of help. I think I was going

Patricia, What exactly do you mean by ‘blood relatives’? Do you mean anyone who is directly linked to you as an ancestor or descendant in your Project database? I guess it excludes people

If your ancestors name was Herr Arnold Schumacher you wouldn't translate it to Mr Arnold Shoemaker so why "translate" the town and country of perhaps his birth. Practically every nation refers to one

Thank you. I shall look forward to further instruction. Patricia

Hi Patricia, I started producing the video but friends have arrived and I believe others could also benefit from the further instruction. If I don’t publish it tonight I will do so tomorrow

“One aspect where I'd use German terminology, even with the translated English names, is with the types of jurisdiction - I have "Friesland Landkreis" and don't translate it to "Friesland County"