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Family Historian V6 + Free Regional Research Guidebook & Online Subscription worth over £48 Reviews

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Deluxe genealogy software written by a leading UK software designer for the UK market. A new concept in genealogy programs that allows you to enter your family by drawing a tree. Full support is given for sources, notes, facts and linked multimedia elements. For researchers it provides support for Queries and Reports.

Features:
*Instantly create Ancestor, Descendant, Hourglass, Everyone and ‘All Relatives’ trees (unique to Family Historian) - and now Fan Charts
*Creating great-looking family tree websites and family tree CDs and DVDs is easy using Family Historian’s powerful wizards
*Create professional-looking family tree books and booklets
*Interactive diagrams are used for browsing, exploring, and editing - as well as printing. ‘Smart Trees’ make creating charts easy.
*Comes with 31 highly configurable reports and you can create your own custom reports using standard reports as templates.
*Link people to their faces in photos
*100% compatible with GEDCOM - the standard for shared genealogical data
*Supports queries - a powerful tool for getting more from your data
*Search the Internet with the Internet Search tool
*Trace relationships graphically on charts using the ‘How Related’ tool
*Full file merge/compare allows you to work cooperatively with others and share data
*Automatic source citations make it easy to record sources
*Download free plugins from the Family Historian Plugin Store
*Powerful scripting tools give you the ultimate control over your own data

What's New in Version 6?
*New Map Window
*Support for Witnesses
*New Web Search Window
*Re-designed Media Window with New Media Link Tool
*New Automatic Source Citation Pane
*Extended Family 'Timeline' Facts
*Easier, Faster Data Entry
*Attach Pictures to Places
*Drag-and-Drop Everywhere
*Copy and Paste Images
*Web Clipping Capability
*Unicode and Accent Characters
*Improved Overall Look - and Better Support for 'High-DPI' Screens
*New Find Tool
*New Find and Replace Tool
*Quick Filtering in Lists
*Enhancements to the 'How Related' Tool
*Enhancements to Queries and the Query Window
*Enhancements to the Focus Window
*Improvements to Narrative Reports
*Support for Colour Schemes
*More 'Modeless' Windows

About S&N Genealogy:

S&N Genealogy Supplies is the largest UK genealogy publisher and retailer, with over two decades of experience serving the needs of computer-based family historians. Founded in 1992, we publish and retail a broad range of family history research material, software, books, binders, and much more. We offer the widest choice of family history software and data CDs and are determined to provide you with the highest quality and keenest prices.

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S&N Genealogy Supplies, West Wing, Manor Farm
Chilmark
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I originally started my family tree using the free MyHeritage Family Tree Builder which proved very easy to use. However, I found that it did not cater very well for adding notes about a person and worse still, I found that it had corrupted my data by mixing up various notes made about one person around different people. I also had reached the limit of 250 people so I was now going to have to pay a monthly fee to continue my research. I decided that I wanted to continue my research but using a good family tree tool based on my PC so after further research, I trialled the Family Historian package. After a couple of weeks, I decided that this was the program for me as it was easy to use with good expandability options from user’s add-ons which are free. I could have just paid for a licence via Family Historian but I found that the package offered by S&N was far better value. For about an extra £8, you get a Family History Guide which is also the S&N catalogue but it contains quite a lot of useful, starter information on researching your family. Also included is the Discover Your Ancestors Regional Research Guidebook (worth £10) and more importantly, a 3-month Gold Personal Premium Subscription to The Genealogist.com; this in itself is worth £39 so effectively pays for the copy of Family Historian by itself. Buying from S&N also gives you support from themselves as well as from the Family Historian site. From the small amount that I have used Family Historian, it has proved to be easy to use with plenty of inbuilt support to teach yourself on how to use various facilities. One thing I did really like was when adding photos to a person as these proved very easy to link in to other people. Also, if you link the faces then you can easily see how a person has changed over the years in the Focus Window. Displays can be customised fairly easily providing the user has some minor coding experience. Although I have only recently purchased this package from S&N, I can heartily recommend this package of Family Historian especially as the Gold Subscription is a great way of getting started without too much expense.
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Posted 4 years ago
Version 6 is as described and I'm very happy, maybe a few minor tweaks to the page set-up and printing options but otherwise excellent. Not yet had the V7 upgrade so cannot comment.
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Posted 4 years ago
Easy to install. Inputting straightforward. Very pleased with the purchase so far.
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Posted 4 years ago
Excellent software. Installed easily over the top of version 5. New features and look of software good. Slight problem migrating project folders to newly installed V6 on new laptop but got there in the end. Knowledge base on FH User group more than helpful.
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Posted 4 years ago
See above.
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Posted 4 years ago
Very early days, but first impression is impressive. I particularly like the way it works with separate windows, which, once set up, are readily available. However, in order to maximize its potential, you will need subscriptions to at least one commercial Family Tree database. The charting and publishing choices are good and the various ways of displaying your data are excellent.
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Posted 4 years ago
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Posted 4 years ago
Great product . I look forward to using it
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Posted 4 years ago