Thank you Adrian that helps me improve my understanding. but I still don’t understand why, when I check in a person’s property box/media I find the image that the plugin tells me is not linked

Mike, Thanks very much for that - it works a treat! I was able to append the Pool to the Name in the Property Box, so it now reads : "Individual: Robert LUND ID: [1] Pool: [1]" - Awesome! Ditto for

John, Follow the FHUG Knowledge Base ~ Family Historian V5 & V6 Migration Guide it will work for FH V7: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/family-historian-v5-v6-migration-guide/ You must migrate

Sylvia, I presume you are not planning to keep the two laptops running in parallel in the long term. In that case, make full backups of your Projects and all your custom settings. Use the Backup

This is timely as I am taking delivery of a new laptop this week. Is it simply a matter of doing a full backup from my old machine, install FH on new machine then restore backup. Or did I read about

Robert, In a Diagram on the Text tab Clone… a Text Scheme and Edit the custom copy so a Used Item includes Pool =RelationPool() It could even be appended to the Name item. In a Property Box,

Personally I’d do the new laptop first and keep the program you are familiar with. But which ever route you decide to use, it’s essential to make a complete back up of everything. When I last

And if the two baptisms are several years apart it can indicate that the first child died and the second child was named after the first one, quite a common practice. So worth checking burial

If an unbaptised person died it was thought that he/she would not be received into heaven: so if a newborn or unbaptised child was thought to be unlikely to survive, a fairly

James Without knowing the source of both here are a number of possibilities 1 – as others have said a private and then church baptism 2 – Different churches 3 – one from parish records and

James Another scenario is where several children are baptised at the same time (ie "job lot"). If this is the case for the 1814 one, it could be that the parents decided to do the

I have found similar anomalies. It has often been there has been a birth, christening and death in quick succession. The next year a birth and christening uses the same name as was fairly common in

I have an example of a repeated baptism here: https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/15307/6485. Was the first baptism private and the second simply a record of the child being received? There’s

Hi everybody, Is it best to upgrade to FH7 before migrating to a new laptop - or to migrate to a new laptop and then upgrade to FH7? Any advice will be much appreciated

Not a technical problem, but a record source, I have come across two records of christening for the same person on two different occasions, one in 1813 and another in 1814, has anyone else found

Mike, I thank you for your advice. I have managed to use the =RelationPool() function as a column in the Records view, and that is extremely useful. However, I'm struggling to find how to include the

Thank you, Jan, that's a helpful suggestion. Paul Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone but not so smart as to usefully auto-correct the typos from my large fingers 🙂

Hello, Paul -- If you haven't already, I encourage you to join the FHUG forum, search for previous discussions, and start a new one. I took a fiction workshop once where everyone read drafts and

Thank you, everyone, for these thoughtful responses. They will help me to know how to proceed. I think your suggestion, Lorna, is a good one. I think I shall endeavor towards that direction for

Quite possibly it's not telling you anything useful at all - it depends on how you work. To try to recap - inside Family Historian, there are Media Records that are linked to files out there, usually