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upgrading to v7

Karen Hodges
 

Thanks Frances
Karen

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 7:15 PM Frances Atherton <frankie445@...> wrote:
Hi Karen,

You can find details of the Strathclyde method in the book below:

Referencing for Genealogists: Sources and Citation by Ian G Macdonald

Frances


On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 08:07, Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:
Hi Everyone

Thank you all for your advice and findings. It sounds overall to be a smooth transition. I will consider upgrading in the next week. 

Just wondering if charting companion  has been upgraded for this new upgrade of FH 7?

Frances I am interested in hearing more about the Strathclyde method for source citations. Can you point me to a link with more details please?

Thanks again
Karen
Frances Atherton
 

Hi Karen,

You can find details of the Strathclyde method in the book below:

Referencing for Genealogists: Sources and Citation by Ian G Macdonald

Frances


On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 08:07, Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:
Hi Everyone

Thank you all for your advice and findings. It sounds overall to be a smooth transition. I will consider upgrading in the next week. 

Just wondering if charting companion  has been upgraded for this new upgrade of FH 7?

Frances I am interested in hearing more about the Strathclyde method for source citations. Can you point me to a link with more details please?

Thanks again
Karen
Karen Hodges
 

Hi Everyone

Thank you all for your advice and findings. It sounds overall to be a smooth transition. I will consider upgrading in the next week. 

Just wondering if charting companion  has been upgraded for this new upgrade of FH 7?

Frances I am interested in hearing more about the Strathclyde method for source citations. Can you point me to a link with more details please?

Thanks again
Karen
theduncans65@...
 

Hello Karen,
I upgraded a couple of days again from V6 and all went very well. Even used gedcom on to renew it on my ipad . 
Had paid for upgrade on V6 so no money required either. All good! Go for it! 

Regards
Susan 


On 15 Dec 2020, at 10:55, Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:


Hi

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

Karen
Frances Atherton
 

I have to say I have experienced no problems at all and have also found it absolutely fabulous. I’m just in the process of updating my sources and citations using the Strathclyde method which is wonderfully easy now using the templates in FH. 

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 11:24, Ian Bruce <ianhbruce@...> wrote:
I appreciate the dilemma. I updated as quickly as I could and before all these posts with people having problems. Though obviously some things have changed I am carrying on with the program, using it as I did before and nothing untoward has happened. We all probably use the program in different ways and as far as I'm concerned it does what I want (and 2000% more!). It appears to have been thoroughly tested and if there are serious errors they would have come to light, I'm sure. I'd go for the upgrade with the understanding that the new features are there if you want them and that you will have to spend some time getting to know how to use them if you do.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:55 AM Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:
Hi

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

Karen
alan@...
 

John

 

Be aware I have raised two tickets re TMG import@

  • Links of media to citations and places are not imported as yet although the media is
  • Imports of Census entries create two roles for the P2 person, e.g. P2 and Wife

 

I am still awaiting a notification as to when these will be fixed before I can move from TMG

 

Alan Bennett

Chairman/Webmaster of FHSC

 

 

From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> On Behalf Of John Hanson
Sent: 15 December 2020 11:51
To: family-historian@groups.io
Subject: Re: [family-historian] upgrading to v7

 

Ian

Totally agree with you – if there was a way to retro fit the existing sources I might be inclined to change but have been using FH since version 2 I have nearly 2000 sources and haven’t the time to go back and change them.

 

I am about to move my TMG database into FH – 35,000 and about 12,000 sources so no way I am changing that lot!

 

Wish I hadn’t taken it out of FH in the first place but it offered the best path for a good website at the time – if I’d have known then what I know now -------  but then hindsight, etc

 

New projects will be a different kettle of fish though

 

Regards
John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names
Researcher, the Halsted Trust - https://www.halsted.org.uk
Research website - https://www.halstedresearch.org.uk

2021 Family History Conference - https://www.elizabethanancestors.org.uk

 

 

From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> On Behalf Of Ian Bruce
Sent: 15 December 2020 11:18
To: family-historian@groups.io
Subject: Re: [family-historian] upgrading to v7

 

I appreciate the dilemma. I updated as quickly as I could and before all these posts with people having problems. Though obviously some things have changed I am carrying on with the program, using it as I did before and nothing untoward has happened. We all probably use the program in different ways and as far as I'm concerned it does what I want (and 2000% more!). It appears to have been thoroughly tested and if there are serious errors they would have come to light, I'm sure. I'd go for the upgrade with the understanding that the new features are there if you want them and that you will have to spend some time getting to know how to use them if you do.

 

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:55 AM Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:

Hi

 

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

 

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

 

Karen

 
Mike Tate
 

I suggest you wait a while until the current ‘activity’ has died down.

The problems are mostly software issues, so maybe wait for the first FH update release.

Even if user Projects have unusual data the FH program should cope with it.

Some problems may be due to users being unfamiliar with the upgrade process or experimenting with features they have not explored before. It is surprising how many features users claim are new or work differently when in fact they are identical to FH V6.

 

Mike Tate

 

From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> On Behalf Of Karen Hodges
Sent: 15 December 2020 10:38
To: family-historian@groups.io
Subject: [family-historian] upgrading to v7

 

Hi

 

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

 

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

 

Karen

 
John Hanson
 

Ian

Totally agree with you – if there was a way to retro fit the existing sources I might be inclined to change but have been using FH since version 2 I have nearly 2000 sources and haven’t the time to go back and change them.

 

I am about to move my TMG database into FH – 35,000 and about 12,000 sources so no way I am changing that lot!

 

Wish I hadn’t taken it out of FH in the first place but it offered the best path for a good website at the time – if I’d have known then what I know now -------  but then hindsight, etc

 

New projects will be a different kettle of fish though

 

Regards
John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names
Researcher, the Halsted Trust - https://www.halsted.org.uk
Research website - https://www.halstedresearch.org.uk

2021 Family History Conference - https://www.elizabethanancestors.org.uk

 

 

From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> On Behalf Of Ian Bruce
Sent: 15 December 2020 11:18
To: family-historian@groups.io
Subject: Re: [family-historian] upgrading to v7

 

I appreciate the dilemma. I updated as quickly as I could and before all these posts with people having problems. Though obviously some things have changed I am carrying on with the program, using it as I did before and nothing untoward has happened. We all probably use the program in different ways and as far as I'm concerned it does what I want (and 2000% more!). It appears to have been thoroughly tested and if there are serious errors they would have come to light, I'm sure. I'd go for the upgrade with the understanding that the new features are there if you want them and that you will have to spend some time getting to know how to use them if you do.

 

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:55 AM Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:

Hi

 

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

 

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

 

Karen

 
Trevor Rix
 

The few people that are reporting issues are very small in number compared to majority of users that have upgraded with no issues.
Ian Bruce
 

I appreciate the dilemma. I updated as quickly as I could and before all these posts with people having problems. Though obviously some things have changed I am carrying on with the program, using it as I did before and nothing untoward has happened. We all probably use the program in different ways and as far as I'm concerned it does what I want (and 2000% more!). It appears to have been thoroughly tested and if there are serious errors they would have come to light, I'm sure. I'd go for the upgrade with the understanding that the new features are there if you want them and that you will have to spend some time getting to know how to use them if you do.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:55 AM Karen Hodges <rowantreek@...> wrote:
Hi

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

Karen
Karen Hodges
 

Hi

I have version 6 of FH and have not upgraded this program before. 

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with the upgrade. I can't tell from the posts  if these are software issues that need a fix or if they are issues caused by errors in the data people have recorded and saved and brought into the new upgraded version or both.

I am wondering if I should upgrade and what to do to avoid problems or wait until more people have tested the new upgrade and a fix if needed added.

Karen

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