Thanks Lorna. Really useful advice. I clearly need to do some careful planning before I jump in. Regards John

The buildings one is another good question David. Do far I have linked the relevant ones to a residence or occupation fact. John

Just wondered how others approach photo storage in Family Historian. I have a job on my "to-do" list ( which I am sure many on here share), which is to scan and digitise the hundreds of old family pho

Thanks for all the repies, fascinating and in the scenario I explained at the start the two families approach definitely works well ( and I note puts a handy little blank box in the chart which makes

Hi Brent, sorry should have been clearer. It "stuttered" with one family. the two family setup was fine so that looks like the way to go I think. regards John F

I am just researching a very large extended but rural family grouping as part of my One name Study and they have been quite an interesting challenge not least due to multiple illegitimate births ( and

Could that include a Hinckley club. ? I was born and brought up in Hinckley and remember the old gas works being converted to a national centre when natural gas came in. Also an ex Leicester Poly stud

I hope I can explain this issue in such a way as it makes sense and would love to know how others approach this. I like to use FH as my repository for everything as it avoids my having lots of bits of

Thanks, thats great and all sorted. help always appreciated regards John Firr

I,m sure this is one of those queries where I am missing something totally obvious? How can I change the location that FH7 saves to when it does its automatic save as you work? I know how to change th

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