GEDCOM 7 and GEDZIP

GEDCOM 7 and GEDZIP

Demonstrates how to export to a GEDCOM 7 file, and how to import from a GEDCOM 7 file. Also demonstrates how to export to a GEDZIP file and import from a GEDZIP file.

Moving Boxes and Branches

Moving Boxes and Branches

Within Family Historian diagrams, learn how to move boxes and branches, and even how to pull tree branches apart, to make them stand out from one another.

Making Branches Stand Out

Making Branches Stand Out

Learn how to improve the look of Family Historian diagrams by colouring tree branches distinctively to make them stand out. The video also demonstrates how to use the Family Connection Mapper tool (added in version 5) to colour lines connecting individual boxes and/or entire branch lines.

Adding Marker Sets to the Map Window

Adding Marker Sets to the Map Window

Provides an introduction to the Map Window by showing how to add multiple sets of markers to a map. One marker sets maps where a person’s ancestors were born. Another set of markers mark where his wife’s ancestors were born. The video also demonstrates how to use the Time Slide

A Quick Tour of Family Historian

A Quick Tour of Family Historian

This video is a quick 8-minute tour of the main features of version 7.  For a pictures-only tour of version 7, please check out the screenshot Tour.  To learn about the features that were added in version 7, please see the What New page.

To view this video full-screen, click the button in the bottom-right corner of the video, when viewing it.

Resizing a Diagram to Fit Your Paper

Resizing a Diagram to Fit Your Paper

Learn how to resize a Family Historian diagram to fit exactly within one sheet of paper when you print it, or if you prefer, to fit nicely over two or more sheets of paper.

Family Historian’s Witnesses Feature

Family Historian’s Witnesses Feature

Tutorial on Family Historian, showing how to use the Witnesses feature to record special roles of participants in events. For example, it shows how to record the bridesmaids and best man at a marriage, and the executors and beneficiaries of a will.

Add Pictures Using the Media Window

Add Pictures Using the Media Window

Learn how to add pictures to a Family Historian project using the Media Window. It also covers linking each person in a picture to their face.

What’s New in Family Historian 7

What's New in Family Historian 7

An overview of some of the new features added in version 7 of Family Historian – including word processing features, research notes, source templates, transcription tools, data entry assistants, and more.