I am in the process of doing a long and laborious tidy up of my FH data as over the years I have managed to adopt several different naming styles for sources and I now have a system I am really happy

Thanks Trevor & Victor. It was that gremlin that unticks boxes when one isn't looking. :) Thanks for your quick response. Kristeen -----Original Message----- From: family-historian@groups.io <family-h

Hi, can you point me in the right direction. I have used AS for several years and always had the image attached to the Census individuals and placed in the Media Folder. (I did nothing to make this ha

Blimey, I don’t ask for help in years and then twice in a couple of days. I have saved from Ancestry 17 images for an individuals war record. What is the best way to amalgamate these and attach to his

Hello all, During the pandemic, my local library is allowing access to FindMyPast (FMP) from home using special log-in details. Using my web browser (Firefox) I can log in and search for data. However

Following on from recent queries I have now completed a merge of what were two seperate projects that shared about 30% of individuals. I am working through all of my data fairly methodically and caref

Thank you Jane. All sorted now and going OK. Thanks, Tony.

I have used the "name suffix" field to identify the generation of people with the same first and last names. For example, "Sr." and "Jr." or "I", "II", "III", and "IV". However, when I create a diagra

I would like to identify all occupations in my file with no date recorded. I am looking at the All Facts query - is there a way I can customise this to show Occupation only? Thanks. Kath

Hello. I'm using FH v6.2.7. For a given project, if I have, say, two diagram workspace windows open, is there any way to move/display one of them on a second monitor? I know that some of the pop-up bo

This is not a serious issue for me but I am intrigued and look forward to receiving any responses. In addition to being another member of the 'dumb club,' I am illegitimate(!) Therefore I have no know

Hi folks, I'm sure someone has come across this problem before and I expect there is a simple answer - or am I being too simple? I'm adding a large number of recently discovered photos into FH. Howeve

I like the look of the family historian software, just trying to find the right one for me. However, the seems to be one major failing for me I want to base my research on the locations in my family T

I am new to Family Historian and have imported my tree from Find My Past. None of the links in the 'media' tab work for any of the members of my tree, I have tried adding them again as new documents (

To save space on a printed descendants diagram, I would like the main direct line descendant to have spouse in own box printed side by side, but for the siblings to have the spouse and children to app

Is it possible to create user defined fields in a Custom Fact rather than just ticking some or all of the 5 fields required? As an example, I have created a custom fact for the 1939 UK Register and wo

I'm getting this message when I try to do a look up on my heritage (after signing up) Cookies must be enabled. Please enable your browser's cookies functionality and try again. Where can I enable cook

Hi, I'm brand new to Family Historian. I've managed to transfer my project from TMG but am now struggling with FH. I am trying to view a family, as a family, in the 1881 Census as I could in TMG. The

Hi, You may have come across this problem before. I have several viable alternative ancestors, splits where i could go in one or more directions to continue my family tree. Is there a way to record th

I am running Windows 10, Family Historian 6. For some reason it has stopping me saving my projects. I get the error message 'Unable to save. Access denied'. I haven'y altered anything so I'm puzzled a