I am constructing a diagram for a talk to a family history group. For simplicity I want to hide all people in the tree who will not be mentioned in the talk. The tree is a descendants chart with my 2x

I think I have dug myself a whole, crawled in and pulled the dirt back over me. I have been creating custom facts but now I see that I have multiple fact set when I select Tools/Fact Types. This is th

So I was a sperm donor about 24 years ago. Is there any way to set in the app that you are married to one spouse with one share offspring, and that you have 9 others, with different mothers that you h

I'm really liking FH but find the colours kind of limited & most of all would like FH to align with Windows Dark Mode. Any idea if this is in the pipeline? Many thanks as a predominantly Lurker :)

I don't have a specific question on creating a new source template because I appear to be so lost because any specific question would be minor because of my misunderstanding of how to create a new def

I have recently come to Family Historian v7 after being a long term user of both Legacy and Rootsmagic. I am gradually becoming more familiar with the program and learning my way around it. I have a q

I have had some finger trouble and managed to delete my extended fact set. How do I go about recovering it?

Following the prompt I updated Family Historian 7 and was then requested re-activate the programme. My activation code has not been accepted. Geoffrey

I'm running some hefty processes, importing large csv files and exporting GEDCOMs using plugins on a core i7 with 32GB memory, and the process keeps taking long pauses. A true 64 bit app might not do

Hello folks, Can someone with experience with tweaking reports, make a suggestion please? I've just moved over from Legacy Family Tree to Family Historian - which I love. I understand that I can't rep

I have read that I can import source templates from the web, rather than create them from scratch, but I can't see how to do that. These would be templates made by other FH uses and made available to

I was trying to create a new custom fact, but somehow I've managed to move an existing fact into the Custom Fact Set. How do I get it back to the Standard Fact Set where it was originally? ​Many thank

Some months back there was a very helpful discussion about alternative sites to Ancestry and I can't find it. My sub with Ancestry is coming to an end and I am wondering whether to stick with them or

I'm trying to come to terms with the problem of finding people when I'm not sure of the spelling of their names. I've looked at https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/how-to-handle-people-with-multiple-nam

For those of you who use Ancestral Sources, you may be interested to know that v.7.6 is now available for download. I posted a news item on to the Family Historian User Group website about this yester

Good afternoon, I've been aware for some time that I need to tidy up my sources and citations. I think the answer is a query or two, but I haven't got a clue about how to write one. Could someone help

One of the Facts imported from my TMG project is "Birth Reg". It has a Principal, and a Witness with a Role of "Mother". In my example the Principal is Male, and the Mother is named Louise /Hebdon/ th

Hi If I would like to enter a date without the year in the Date Field then it does not allow me to and requests that I enter the day and month as a "date phrase". This appears properly on the charts a

I have recently migrated my FHv6 from my old laptop to my new one, following the migration and backup in the Knowledge Base. What is the best strategy for testing that everything is as it was on my ol

Hi, Just a couple of questions: 1) How many laptops can I install Family Historian 7 and Charting Companion 8 on, and can I use them at the same time? 2) If I have Family Historian 7 and Charting Comp