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

Thank you, everyone! Hopefully, I'll have it all down soon. Dei Gratia, Kathy Bergman

Thank you so much everyone. I am grateful for your help. Dei Gratia, Kathy Bergman

With Narrative Reports it is possible in Sentence Templates to have expressions that cope with no data very similar to Diagram Text Schemes.

As I've said in a previous reply, a diagram text scheme can be customised to display your own chosen text if there is no data for a particular fact. So perhaps what is needed is a similar

The problem there is that what FH generates in those cases matches what's in the GEDCOM specification. And there's nothing in the GEDCOM specification for "no details / date / whatever". Which makes

On the 'Date Entry Assistant' on the Facts tab, and using the 'Date Phrase' tab I have input 'unknown' against a birth or death fact. The date shows as a line in the Facts list against birth/died, and

Entirely agree, dates held as such in the database should be, er, dates. Of course. However, the software evaluates the user data entered into the date field and decides what to do. It takes

I advised using the Facts tab because using the Main tab doesn't work as the software can't tell whether there has been any intention to create an empty entry, or whether it's just a user tabbing

I had the same problem in v6. If I found a place on Google maps and copied the map reference it was always put some way to the west. I then had to centre the map on the reference and then move it.