As with each major upgrade of FH not only is the Project data changed but also the customisations are affected too! So you were wise to keep your Project data separate, but did you backup your

That will happen from time to time with any Plugins and always did in the old Plugin Store as is happening now in the new Plugin Store when they are being approved by Calico Pie for publishing. I

Hello Marion, I sympathise with you as I had the same dilemma and going by previous upgrades I eventually decided to go along with what Calico have set version 7 to. Although this may entail some

Yes please to a how-to book! Nicola

Hello Lorna, It appears it is associated with the Auto-text. Will look further tomorrow. Derek

I downloaded Version 7 this morning and I have been using it today on a duplicate copy of my project file and I am very glad that I did it that way! I have been using Family Historian since Version 1

Hi Kathy, Sorry, AS = Ancestral Sources. An excellent accompanying program written by Nick Walker, that allows you to do 'data entry' of certificates and census information. He offers it for free with

Hello Lorna, Thank you for the reply and I have added the data to the text box. What I was concerned with was the 'Civil Registration Certificate' Source Template has census years if you click on the

Thank you Mike and Paul. I’ve found that Help section and can work through it. As I am changing from Legacy to FH, and would like to use TNG for my web presence is there an advantage in staying with

Just been looking at what plugins I have in 6 and whether they have been updated for 7. Generally I can find the info. However, I have 'Export Gedcom File 3.9' - this just isn't showing

I got round the problem, eventually, by switching to Edge browser, which gave me the option of downloading regardless. From messages it seems the objection was to the site,

My understanding is that unlike earlier versions you don’t need to keep Emails, Activation keys, Downloaded installation files, etc. All you need is your CP Account username & password. They say it

Thanks Mike I have just upgraded. I couldn't recall my password and CP emailed a temp password and I have reset my log in details. Now just have to read the Help imformation which

Hi David, I forget to refer you to the Help page in FH that describes the process. In the FH Help use Search for "Upgrading from Version 3 or Earlier" including the quotes. It also applies to users

Hi Kathy, AS stands for Ancestral Sources which is a free companion program for Family Historian (FH). Until this week its latest version was 5.2.0 but it is now version 7.0.0 See

Hi David, FH will work with structured folders inside its Media folder just like Legacy. When FH loads from a GEDCOM it will replicate the Media folder structure under certain conditions. The

The list of choices includes a number of auto-text templates which have already been written and are supplied with FH.   As you have seen, most of these are for more complex types of source text. 

I have my media in a structured folder system from the days of fh4, and works ok. I have Media/baptisms, Media/birthcerts, Media/probates, etc and matching keywords (baptisms, birthcerts, probates,

It stands for 'Ancestral Sources version 5.2.0' (which has now been superseded by version 7).   Ancestral Sources is a program written by an FH user, Nick Walker, which is an aid to data entry in

I have posted this on FHUG as well, not sure yet which gets read the most: Have just loaded all my Legacy files into FH7 using GEDCOM and noticed that all the Media files are now 'flat' inside one