Which software has priority?
I found a duplicated ancestor in my family tree in Ancestry.Com (Ancestry added this duplicate person, I did not). I carefully clicked 'edit' on the duplicate person and chose 'delete this person'....
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I'm currently using FTM V8 for Windows but I have FTM 2012 that I haven't upgraded to yet. When I originally entered my data into FTM I created a database for each branch of my family that I'm...
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V8 is a version that was probably released sometime in the 1990s. Read this help page for how to deal with it.http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3673/kw...You can import all five...
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The entire branch isn't/wasn't deleted. It was simply disconnected from the rest of the tree because the person who connected the branch was deleted. In the future when you discover duplicate people,...
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Hello all,Quick question: if one does not know a surname or forename they are entering into their tree in FTM, what is the best method of entry? For example, if you know the last name is Smith but the...
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Thanks for such a quick answer. I'm going to read thru the attachment you sent (I can't right now, however) and I may have more questions for you, if that's alright.
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I have split the file and merged it successfully after deleting the two backup files. A curious effect is that the program had converted all female spouses and mothers to 'not preferred' effectively...
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I use (____) (four underscores).You definitely want to use something for the (unknown) maiden surname of married women so they will standout when you switch the index to "married names of females); ie...
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The problem is that Ancestry wiped out not only the duplicate but the original person and ALL of his ancestors AND his wife and ALL of her ancestors! Neither he nor she could be found...
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Sorry to tell you...but then why did ALL of his ancestors disappear along with his wife and ALL of her ancestors with one delete command?
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It didn't. It just looked like it did and you made an assumption based on what you saw in either the pedigree view or family view. If you had checked your list of names, you would have seen that the...
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I think that the essential is to be consistent within your own research. Pick a way of indicating what is important to you and use it every time.
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Were the duplicates created by ancestry, without your permission, by accepting hints from other trees?
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I suggest you look at your "list of all people" for the spouse/children in that line - the link has likely only been broken by deleting that duplicate person.You can then link the line back to the...
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I got a new laptop for Christmas. I just installed FTM 12 on it and now want to move all my FTM info from the old dying desktop to my new laptop...how? Gee, why can't it be as simple as downloading it...
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I have no idea where the duplication came from...a couple of days ago...there were only the ancestor couple with their correct ancestor branches. When I looked this morning...the husband had been...
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Or by allowing the addition of a person from a record, such as a census, when the person already exists in the tree.Although, if the person was truly duplicated, deleting one would not have deleted both.
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I did look in the name list...and the deleted people were not there either! I have had other programmers tell me "user error" when they either didn't have any idea why their software did not work...
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It's important to understand that *all* changes gets synced. If you change something on ancestry, it will change it in FTM on the next sync. If you change something in FTM, it will change it on...
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