Welcome! The purpose of this group is to provide an open forum for users of Family Historian to share tips and advice on using it, with other users. Everyone should feel welcome to contribute, and to

One of my wife's cousins has lived his whole life as an adopted person, and is built into my family tree as such (he is now 60 years old). Two years ago he discovered his birth parents and now has a f

hello i’ve recently done a DNA test with Ancestry and want to export part of my family tree to Ancestry to try and find some cousins. I’ve followed the FH instructions, made a copy, removed all source

Hi Just wanted to say what a great program! I have been using it for 2 years on and off, and in my opinion is by far the best. I have used Family Tree Maker and TNG software but I always return to thi

Hi everyone, I'm using Ancestral Sources to enter Census entries to FH. Can someone tell me where the "Text" element transfers to in FH as I can't see it? Its probably really simple once you know! Man

I wish to align my FH project with a MyHeritage project that is rather larger. Please tell me, if I seek to transfer a GEDCOM file, how does FH resolve large numbers of duplications?

I agree death certificates can easily be wrong, my husband incorrectly recorded his mother's maiden name, I only found out when doing his tree and we still have not corrected it, although we have been

-- Hi all, I am pleased to be joining this group. I recently had to buy a new laptop and managed to transfer my Family Historian Projects successfully bar a few photos. However I cannot get the data c

Hi Forum. I'm looking for advice on how to 'weight' birth sources in degree of importance. Of course not all will/may exist in my list below, and some will contain lesser info that others. But I'm loo

Hi All, Having entered all my family into FH I used the descendant’s narrative to produce the relevant 'book'. It all worked perfectly but I wanted to try to add some important historical events to al

Hi, This used to work perfectly, but recently when clicking on a link, all I get is a blank page in the web search window. I am wondering if something has happened since the NEW Microsoft Edge was rel

Dears Colleagues, Does anyone can confirm to me if FH 7 will have any kind of synchronization functionality with Family Search? Some application have this nowadays and I am quite interested in that to

I am currently using Family Historian 6.2.5 on a Windows 7 PC. I need to do an install of Windows 10 that will eliminate my programs/apps. So, I will need to reinstall FH. I have my FH 5 disk and the

I am having difficulty getting my file to save and be found easily. I had saved files on external drive to back up documents when changing over to a new laptop. Also saved to the D: drive is the zippe

Hi, I have been using Family Historian for some time and been using my own Sentence Templates without problems. As I use both Place and Address data with the administrative location in the Place and p

Hello. As you can do in reports, is it possible to remove birth details from persons flagged as living from trees and charts? Thank You

I want to build a Fact sentence template in FH 6.2.7 like this: The {date:YEAR} {label} for {=CombineText("at ",TextPart(%FACT.ADDR%,1,5,Tidy),,CombineText("in ",TextPart(%FACT.PLAC%,1,5,Tidy),,))} re

Graham, The point to remember is that most customisations apply globally to all Projects, so switching Projects retains the Fact Sentence Templates within FH local memory. It is only when you close FH

I am using the trial version of Family historian and have imported a Master Genealogist database. I have an woman who was engaged to a man, but she jilted him and married someone else. The engagement

I want to use a different email account for receiving Family Historian support etc. emails. How do I register a different email address? Dennis Hawkins