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Ordering of multiple spouses by marriage date - How?

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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First, I'm using FTM 2012.

In examining an outline descendant report printed in FTM 2012 for one of my family lines, I was surprised to see the two marriages for one of my ancestors NOT listed by marriage date.

The first marriage listed was for the second wife (and included those offspring in my direct line). The listing for the first wife was further down the page.

Is there a way I control the ordering of marriages by marriage date?

Thanks,

Wes
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Re: Where to keep the "good" tree and the "working"tree

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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Thanks, Curt.

Your way seems a reasonable approach. I'll give it a go.

Wes
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Re: Where to keep the "good" tree and the "working"tree

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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Sounds like a good approach, Russ. Thanks.

Also, the synch capability in FTM 2012 sounds like it may be good to look into.

Wes
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Re: Where to keep the "good" tree and the "working"tree

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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I'm using FTM 2011, version 20.0.0.368

Wes
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Where to keep the "good" tree and the "working"tree

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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(1) I'm new to FTM where I have the option of keeping trees both on my PC and online.

I'm a bit puzzled about where it is better to (1)keep the "main" (i.e. "good" tree) on my PC and keep the working tree online or to somehow keep both trees the same and somehow in synch.

The tree I imported into FTM was pretty much fully sourced, but now I'm working on new branches on the periphery - most of which at this point are speculative or at best low- to medium surety.

I'm looking for suggestions from those with more experience than I about whether it's better to keep one tree with speculative outer branches or to keep one fully sourced tree and one with the speculative branches.

I'd appreciate any suggestions.

(2) Is it possible in FTM to have the same person in two FTM trees? I ask this because another option I have is to keep the fully-sourced tree intact and start another tree with one of my source ancestors and build the speculative, low surety tree from that point in a new tree.

Thanks,

Wes
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Re: Newbie Question on Source/Citation Text/Citation Detail

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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Thanks for the suggestion.

Looking at the FTM templates will be my project for this afternoon (I'm retired :-) )

I'm new to FTM and am trying to come up to speed.

Wes
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Re: Newbie Question on Source/Citation Text/Citation Detail

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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Thanks for the information. I'll check on Ms. Mills' book. I like your macro form..


Wes
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Newbie Question on Source/Citation Text/Citation Detail

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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I've recently moved to FTM 2011 and - looking over the data I imported from my previous genealogical work - I see that I have not been consistent in my handling of sources. I want to redo these source but I'm a bit confused about what constitutes (1) the source (2) source citation and (3) citation detail

My question of the moment is this:

If, for instance, I have multiple citations to hertigagequestonline census images: e.g.

Example 1:
www. heritagequestonline.com. Digitized Census Images from National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. published on-line by HeritageQuestOnline.com,1860 US Census, IL, Carroll Co., Mt Carroll Population Schedule, Household: George Ashby, Film: Series M563_159 Page: 1058

Example 2:
Digitized Census Images from National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. published on-line by HeritageQuestOnline.com 1870 US Census, OR, Marion County, Sublimity Population Schedule, Household: George Ashby, Film: Series M593 Roll: 1287 Page: 104,

For both examples, should the source be:

www. heritagequestonline.com. Digitized Census Images from National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. published on-line by HeritageQuestOnline.com

Should the citation text for example 1 be:

1860 US Census, IL, Carroll Co., Mt Carroll Population Schedule, Household: George Ashby, Film: Series M563_159 Page: 1058

Should the citation detail for example 1 be:

George Ashby, age 37, farmer, b. Canada
Mary Ashby, age 26, b. Canada
Susanna, age 13, b. IL
Robert, age 10, b. IL
Catherine, age 8, b. IL
Sarah, age 7, b. IL
Mary, age 4, b. IL

I realize that these questions are elementary, but I'm willing to learn.

Thanks,

Wes
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Re: FTM 2011: Are there Software Differences Between Essentials, Deluxe, Platinum?

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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FTM 2011: Are there Software Differences Between Essentials, Deluxe, Platinum?

June 13, 2018, 3:14 pm
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I already have a membership in Ancestry.com.

I'm looking to change from The Master Genealogist SW (too steep a learning curve) to Family Tree Maker 2011.

Are the differences between the Essentials, Deluxe, and Platinum versions of FTM 2011 only in the length of time of the trial membership to Ancestry.com?

Thanks,

Wes
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Re: "All Categories" Greyed Out in FTM Websearch

June 13, 2018, 4:08 pm
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Re: "All Categories" Greyed Out in FTM Websearch

June 13, 2018, 4:51 pm
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Untick Family Trees at the bottom of the screen. I don't use Web Search but have read of others having the same problem and that seemed to be the solution.
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Ancestry uk email address

June 14, 2018, 8:09 am
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I am having a problem with the length of the name of the UK probate calendar database in Ancestry - it is now 99 characters long so when I merge the media item it gets a truncated name when downloaded and I have just managed to overwrite a whole load of them which ended up with the same names! Thought I would contact ancestry to complain and there doesn't seem to be an email contact address any more on their web site. I think this is actually illegal in the the UK. Anyone know an email address for the UK site?
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Re: Ancestry uk email address

June 14, 2018, 8:13 am
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June 14, 2018, 12:00 pm
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Re: Report on specific generation

June 14, 2018, 2:02 pm
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I meant as a workaround to sorting the report within FTM. The Excel option is less than satisfactory since sorting on the relationship column doesn't really sort properly, all the generations starting with "1" then all the generations starting with "2", etc, then non numbered kinship at the bottom.

Better than nothing.
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Re: Report on specific generation

June 14, 2018, 2:58 pm
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There is no sort option in FTM.

Did you read the instructions?
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Re: Report on specific generation

June 14, 2018, 3:30 pm
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This the standard method of sorting within the computing world.

What you may want to do export to Word and then do a find and replace to add an "Tab" between the numbers and the name, then the new tab can become a new column when made into a table.
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Re: Report on specific generation

June 15, 2018, 1:06 am
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David, Burgess, I think you're getting confused. There definitely IS a sort option in the FTM2017 Kinship Report, and it was what David Thomson suggested using in the first place, i.e. sorting in FTM BEFORE exporting (the export was simply to allow unwanted entries to be edited out):

"- In Publish select Relationship Reports then Kinship report.
- Choose Select Individuals; click on Individuals to Include; click Ancestors and make sure Include Ancestors' Descendants is unchecked.
- Select Sort Individuals by Kinship
- Click generate report
- Click the Share button and export to CSV or RTF"

You can see the "Sort Individuals by Kinship" option in the attached screenshot.

Sorting afterwards in Excel is of course possible but it IS a workaround, and was only necessary as plummerh said, because they found that the sort within FTM failed for them for some reason (it works fine for me, though quite slow, so maybe it was a memory issue or some other problem with their FTM installation?)
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Re: Report on specific generation

June 15, 2018, 9:47 am
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Thanks Ross. Yes, the sort works fine for me with all individuals, it only fails when I use select individuals and choose All Ancestors. That was the original problem.

I've attached screen shots
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