Thanks for your help and patience Mike. We got their in the end! Regards John

Great Mike, got that and wont delete anything without being absolutely clear. Well I appear to have a duplicate project file sitting in the subfolder but not causing a problem. The Gedcom which I remo

Hi again Mike, apologies I am not particularly techie but will try to explain. I do not have two gedcom files ( only one) but I have two project files. They are all called FIRR Database master. In the

Thanks Mike thats really useful. Ok I can see that there is a FIRR Database master file in the correct folder with the correct date and this is the one that the programme is now picking up ( its only

Hi Mike, yes there was a stray gedcom in there which I have moved out and all seems well now. Dont know quite how it got there to be honest. It all seems well but I just wanted to doublecheck. I opene

Hi Mike, apologies just saw your reply. I will follow your instructions and see where it gets me, thanks John

Hi Helena, looks like you are right.it seems to have picked up a standalone GEDCOM that I created in March of this year. I dont understand why it should randomly appear in my FH startup project listin

Something odd happened to my installation of FH when I opened it today. I noticed an extra project had appeared with a date of 1971! My default project is called FIRR Database Master last backed up th

Thanks everyone, that confirms where i think I am. I wouldnt want to do anything other than split where I have a specific source such as a certificate and image but it does seem to feel like splitting

Just a question out of interest really. I started using FH for family history research and adopted wnat I believe to be a "splitter" technique for recording sources i.e I raise an individual source fo

Thanks Dave, If it's just a case of it being as good as it can be I,m fine with that as it's still pretty impressive but just wanted to make sure it wasn't a result of lack of understanding on my part

Following a few previous posts I am gradually getting all my mapping sorted out as my place name record set was frankly a mess. I have now spent a couple of weeks doing a very careful tidy up. Everyth

Hope its appropriate to jump on this thread with a follow on question.? I have been using a three column strategy for places so for instance if the Location was say 3 Cook Street, Wesminster, London,

Thanks everyone it's only a simple issue but always helps to hear others perspective. As always help on this forum much appreciated. John

I have come across three parish burials in a small hamlet which are almost certainly three siblings. However although I am pretty confident that they are siblings I have no idea who the parents are. H

Can I ask what is the significance of the "parts" column in the placename list widow in maps. I have worked out that commas will seperate the record eg Biggleswade Bedfordshire England will all appear

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 l

Yes Mike, understood. I am waiting for new laptop to be delivered but had a dry run yesterday so I know whats what now and will have multiple backups!. I was a bit worried about the plugin changing th

Thanks Mike. I had seen that guidance but wasnt sure that it was correct for V7 so thanks for the clarification. You are correct that I just want to transfer between pcs and then will just use FH on t

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 h