Terminology - Family Historian

[RJ_Paton]

In FH if you use the records window to list all of the individuals held in the database if you have the column "relationship to Root" set up, click on this to show the relationships of everyone to the root person. the top ones should show blank if there is no direct relationship (if they don't show right click and select sort ascending).

You can then select any individual and then click on the diagram options either on Both Ancestor and Descendant or All relatives to give you a tree of the links associated with that individual.

[Norfolk Nan]

Thank you, I'll give that a go.   

[RJ_Paton]

Sorry I should have added that if you run the query mentioned before about finding orphans you can run the same procedure on them with the Diagram Options.

The difference between the two approaches is that the "Relationship to Root" method brings up "Orphans" and individuals not directly related to the Root Person while Orphans Query brings up only those orphan links.

I have a number of people in my database not related to me but who are related to others in the database and who are there as proof that I have the correct individual so are ones I want to keep, you may find some of those in your own files.

[Norfolk Nan]

Thank you.  I did run the orphans list and have been wondering how best to tackle a long list.  You make a good point - I'm wondering if I should leave things alone 'just in case'  as I have been known to think I've gone the wrong way and then discover I was right the first time