Shelagh said: >When opening FH the person showing in the focus window is always the root person, > and is the most logical way of working it. Personally I can't think of a more sensible way. I think you've missed the point Shelagh and this isn't an Ancestral Sources question at all. The issue that Julie was pointing out is that if you're in Family Historian and the file is updated outside of Family Historian (which could be by an external program), then Family Historian notices this and reloads the file. Julie would like it to continue to show her the diagram she was working on following the reload rather than close the diagram. Of course Shelagh you are right that it makes sense for FH to open with the root person as the focus - no one in this discussion is suggesting otherwise - this discussion is related to re-loading. Best wishes Nick