Yes, there are many ways that and other options can be exercised. Checkout the FH standard Fact Queries like All Facts. See the Knowledge Base for loads of

The narrative report of descendants (FH7) for our "lone" ancestor (6 generations ago, refugee from Lithuania, let's call him A) has gone down a storm with the surviving relatives (smile), showing

Thank you Graham. There are many ways to determine path length, but Dave wants to use a custom Query to perform the check.

Dave, The "preceeding path" can be found on the "Work with External File Links Dialog" (Main menu bar - Tools - External File Links). Once you have that, look for you "Data" folder (named similar to

Thank you. I knew it had to be easy but couldn't find it in help.

Go to Tools > Preferences > Startup and untick the first of the "Startup actions ...". Hope this helps

Tools > Preferences > Startup and untick Display the Last-User Focus Person in the Focus Window.

Thanks Lorna Have followed your advice and it now works Rob Jordan Virus-free. www.avast.com

In v6, when I opened the default project, it opened at the root person. In v7 it opens at the person last viewed. Is there any way to change this please?

Thanks Lorna and ColeValleyGirl. I’ll just have to be patient then…! Nicola

There are some known issues with Crossover, See this topic in the FHUG forums: https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=18285 One of the messages there says that Calico Pie (authors of

Not what you want to hear but see https://fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=18285

Like Geoff, I have previously run FH successfully on my Mac with Crossover. However, when trying to create a narrative report on V7, the preview document appears as completely black with a white

Mike Once I realised I had to change the Query type to a "Fact" query, I managed to get a list of events with that date so thanks for that. I've also got it working with a Parameter

To quote from the Help file (Preferences Dialogue: Map Window) - "If enabled, whenever a place is displayed in the Map Window, Family Historian will attempt to automatically determine its latitude

You must use a Fact Query with Row filter =GetDisplayText(%FACT.DATE%, MIN) begins with 25 Dec

Hi Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how many people in my database had an "event" on 25 December (no specific year). I tried to use the "Contains Text" query but that only looks at

Thanks Frances Karen

Hi Karen, You can find details of the Strathclyde method in the book below: Referencing for Genealogists: Sources and Citation by Ian G Macdonald Frances

Hi Everyone Thank you all for your advice and findings. It sounds overall to be a smooth transition. I will consider upgrading in the next week. Just wondering if charting companion has been