Michael, As I stated, there are several dialogues involved in printing with the Family Historian PDF (Nova printer). It would help us solve your issues quicker if you gave the names in the top left

Many thanks one and all for your help the prints tab was the answer, I will explore the text schemes and will probably need some help. I find when I use the nova printer it appears to be still working

Michael, What is your setting on the Diagram > Options > Print tab for ‘Print lines, boxes & text in black & white’? After using Diagram > Save Diagram As > PDF File (.pdf)… you must click

Look at the Diagram Options > Print tab. There is a tick box there to ‘Print tree lines, boxes and text in black-and-white only’. By default this is not ticked, but perhaps you have ticked that

Michelle Are you trying to print or create a large one page PDF? I am assuming you are printing to PDF? Is this version 6 or 7? In v7 if I create an all relatives diagram then go to Diagram > Save

I have been trying to print an all relative diagram but however I try it ends up black & white I have tried with both the family historian Nova printer and with Cute PDf writer bur all to no avail. [I

Many thanks again to John and Victor. I hope this information is helpful to others, too. Kind regards Stephen Stephen Challis Please reply to Stephen.Challis@...

If you use FreeBMD you can search up to at least 1993 . Ancestry lists BMD to the early 2000. These all give a GRO reference which you use on the GRO site and order the certificates.

Stephen Use the GRO’s own website to search for the birth or death (update 1924 for births and 1957 for deaths) using https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp Click on

thanks Mike, I've raised a ticket. In the interim I'll practice adding standardized place names to the places records and the mapping feature.

And the PDF arrives much quicker than the paper copy Peter

Very many thanks, Mike and John. Stephen Stephen Challis Please reply to Stephen.Challis@...

Ordered online from the GRO, a PDF version is £7, but paper copies are £11. John

Try https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ You will need to create an account but that also lest you search the GRO Birth & Death Index.

Thanks for posting this, John. How can I get a birth certificate for £7? I’ve only ever seen them for £11, and the price is £11 today, as far as I can see (at

Hi Edward, Use the Property Box cog Menu > Customize Property Box and click Help for advice. The Property Box for any type of record can be customized. However, unlike other Expressions, the fields

In the records window right click on the heading row, select Configure Columns, go to the bottom of the list and select <Other...> , click the right pointing arrow to move it into the

In the Records Window, right click a Column header > Configure Columns > scroll down to the bottom of the left pane and double click Other > enter Pool in the first box > enter =RelationPool() in the

Real quick one as I know this is simple but cant quite work it out. The concept of pools was discussed in an earlier thread but I cant quite find the answer. I want to add a column to my individuals

Mike, I had noticed that all the references were from quite a while ago but thought I would look at this as a perhaps easier way to enter data. I had already created a customized probate record and a