I got this message this morning: “Hello, You have been automatically removed from family-historian@groups.io because your Email Service Provider reported to us that messageRe: Occupation, how

Actually Family Historian was publically launched as version 2 in May 2002, so your 30 years is somewhat over optimistic.

I am sorry Helen and Lorna; mixing up names is a genealogist's nightmare. Won't happen again (I hope :)). Cheers, Jurriaan

Please excuse my interjection. I have been following this group after asking Mike Tate (sp.?) a question months ago. You are all way ahead of me ! Lorna has raised an excellent point about the

Hello I have been using Family Historian for almost 30 years, since either V2 or V3, and am now on V7. I have 600 names in my tree, but I have never taken a consistent approach. I have filed many

Please excuse my interjection. I have been following this group after asking Mike Tate (sp.?) a question months ago. You are all way ahead of me ! Lorna has raised an excellent point about the

My approach would be to take each document in turn, rather than each individual. Some documents contain a lot of extra information about other people, which you might miss if you

Hello I have been using Family Historian for almost 30 years, since either V2 or V3, and am now on V7. I have 600 names in my tree, but I have never taken a consistent approach. I have filed many

In case anyone is still confused, colevalleygirl is Helen, not me! (Though I’d be happy to take credit for her work!)

No problem, Jurriaan :)

Thanks Lorna, Every new year I learn something new! Makes me wonder what more is in stock for me.:)

Thanks for your reply, Lorna. I think it has a problem with PNG files. I converted it to JPG and it did what it was supposed to do. Paul

I don’t think there is a video tutorial which covers all the aspects. Is the main problem that the diagram doesn’t look attractive or that it is difficult to interpret? If the problem is that

There are various techniques for customising Diagrams. Many of them are in the Diagram > Options tab settings or the Diagram menu commands. If you could explain the deficiencies more specifically

Joop, your whole new world already exists... FH7 supports report plugins. Have a look in the Plugin Help under Special Plugin types. There are examples in C:\Program Files (x86)\Family

Hi Lorna, Yes, I've been using several workarounds for years (bundling occupations (with dates as text, using sort dates (in TMG, it's bothersome in FH) etc.). But what I don't understand is why it's

Is there a video tutorial anywhere on tips for making my family tree diagrams prettier and more readable? I have a lot of relatives in my tree, but when I generate diagrams they aren't as aesthetic

Wow, thanks Lorna, never realised I wasn't seeing the full window. I wonder if it is because I usually work on a split screen so I can work from ancestry etc. Jane

My apologies Derek, I didn't mean to offend in any way, I was making observations on similarities of the two browsers and the annoyances of users who like yourself prefer to use a none MS browser. I

Hello Mike, Your comments just received are appreciated and appropriate. Some readers do tend to miss some of the comments made and some take things literally. I found a lot of writers to this and