Welcome! The purpose of this group is to provide an open forum for users of Family Historian to share tips and advice on using it, with other users. Everyone should feel welcome to contribute, and to

hello i’ve recently done a DNA test with Ancestry and want to export part of my family tree to Ancestry to try and find some cousins. I’ve followed the FH instructions, made a copy, removed all

Julia Did you use the “Export Gedcom File” plug-in in the plug-in store? https://www.family-historian.co.uk/pluginstore/plugin-entry?id=522 Regards John Hanson - researching the

Julia, John’s advice is essentially correct. The FHUG Knowledge Base has advice in Exporting a Family Tree with/without

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Hi Simon. Many thanks for setting this up. I have been using FH6 since soon after it first came out and can't tell you how much I love the program (I previously used GST and Broderbund). Keep up the

Thank you John and Mike for your help. I’ve downloaded the plug in, I had been using File/Import Export/Gedcom file previously. But it’s worked and the edited tree is now on

One of my wife's cousins has lived his whole life as an adopted person, and is built into my family tree as such (he is now 60 years old). Two years ago he discovered his birth parents and now has a

Have you reviewed the Knowledge base article for Adoption https://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to:recording_children_with_foster_adoptive_parents If you want to add both sets of Parents on to

Hi Just wanted to say what a great program! I have been using it for 2 years on and off, and in my opinion is by far the best. I have used Family Tree Maker and TNG software but I always return to

Hi Jon I have an Apple mac and have been using Crossover (which uses Wine) for a number of years with great success. I've found it very easy to install and use and FH works extremely well on

I have successfully been running 99.?%? of fh functionality on Linux for almost two and a half years (specifically Lubuntu 16.04 and then 18.04 with Wine 4.0.3 - emulating Windows 7) Wine 5.0 has

Thank you David, I will explore your scenario further. I really want to go back to using FH. Cheers. Jon

Hello, I'm a little puzzled by this. I have uploaded several small Gedcom trees to Ancestry DNA, but I've never (knowingly!) installed any plug-ins. My version of FH is 6.2.7 - which i think is the

Jon, There is a lot of advice and Linux FH users on the FHUG website. The FHUG Knowledge Base has Family Historian V6 & Ancestral Sources V5 on Crossover, PlayOnLinux/Mac &

Hi Brian, Yes, if your trees are uncomplicated and you only want to use Ancestry DNA then File > Import/Export > Export > GEDCOM File will often be OK. As you say, you must remember to choose UTF-8

Thanks, Mike. Although my uploads to Ancestry etc are pretty basic and purely to enable any DNA matches to get some idea of who's who, I think I'll get the plug-in and be on the safe side. Thanks

Thanks Mike, I shall take a look at this. Regards Jon

Hi everyone, I'm using Ancestral Sources to enter Census entries to FH. Can someone tell me where the "Text" element transfers to in FH as I can't see it? Its probably really simple once you

Hi Julie, It depends on whether your have set Ancestral Sources to use Method 1 (the default) or Method 2. But assuming Method 1 then that Auto Text is added to the Source record Text From Source