Thanks Mike. Having been pointed in this direction, I have just joined it! Laraine -------------------------------------------------- From: "Beryl & Mike Tate" <post@tatewise.co.uk> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 9:51 AM To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] help please for a very new user > Laraine, welcome to the world of Family Historian. > You may not be aware of the Family Historian User Group (FHUG) run by Jane > Taubman who answered your questions. > It is a free voluntary FH User Group at > http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi - just register free under the > Login section. > There are Q & A Forums, a wealth of information in the Knowledge Base, and > free Downloads such as Ancestral Sources for Census & > Baptism data capture. > Regards, Mike Tate > > -----Original Message----- > From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine > Hake > Sent: 10 October 2011 09:17 > To: john.wjames@which.net; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FHU] help please for a very new user > > Thank you John. It does help......... It is strange to be a newbie! I > really love the programme so far having used, and loved, > Pedigree for the past 15 years or so...........it is odd not to know what > I am doing! I have worked through the booklet and many of > the tutorials, but it is only in doing for myself that I will really > learn. > > Laraine > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "John James" <john.wjames@which.net> > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 8:18 AM > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [FHU] help please for a very new user > >> To Jane's reply I would add the suggestion to add an unknown father and >> hang children off that relationship, rather than just > adding the children directly to the Mother. After all, there must have > been one, however transient. If and when you find the > details, you simply update the Unknown individual with the appropriate > details. >> >> It's also worth browsing or searching the FH Mailing List Archive; these >> subjects have invariably been discussed in the past. >> >> HTH, >> >> John >> >> _____ >> >> From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine >> Hake >> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:32 AM >> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [FHU] help please for a very new user >> >> I am very new to using Family Historian (but not to Family History!) and >> would be very grateful indeed if I there is somebody who > would be willing to point me in the direction of finding out the answers > to some of my problems............ >> >> For example: this morning I have entered a new spouse to a woman who >> already had children. It had not occurred to me that they > were not linked to a father and so the new spouse now appears to be their > father which is incorrect........ I have searched Help > and the booklet to no avail. I can't even figure out how to use my > previous backup which could be the easiest option. >> >> Many thanks >> >> Laraine Hake >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >