Re: Custom Facts In Reports Are Not Displayed
Thanks! Unchecking the "preferred facts" box in the dialog you mentioned did the trick. FTM uses the term "preferred" inconsistently, as in the Individual & Shared Facts pane within the Person tab,...
View ArticleMedia items not properly attributed to owners
Back in November 2012 I had a problem with my FTM I deleted the file and downloaded a new one from Ancestry. All my photos and document were re-downloaded also. Everything on Ancestry and in my FTM...
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 vsFTM11
It should not be a problem. The product specifications at the FTM website says it will run on XP. See http://www.ancestry.com/cs/apps/P-4942 for other details.
View ArticleRe: Custom Facts In Reports Are Not Displayed
The rather confusing interface in the "items to include" is to provide the capability to show only the preferred instance of one type of fact, say Education; while showing all instances of another...
View ArticleRe: Hannah Rachel Stewart
I found this record in the 1940 census for Newark, New Jersey,George Sutherland, head, age 37, born about 1903 in Scotland, married, naturalized.Hannah Sutherland, wife, age 31, born about 1909 in...
View ArticleRe: Merging Sources - Advantage or Not?
I think they are using the term "merging" rather loosely. To me merging and replacing are two different things.As for the England census - they may very well be identical and it may very well be ok to...
View ArticleRe: Hannah Rachel Stewart
I meant to add something else to my reply. This board is for questions about Family Tree Maker, not specific families. You will be better served by posting messages to the Sutherland and Stewart...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 and FTM 2006 compatibility
No, the pdf add in program just does not work. One can install a third party pdf driver/printer and just use the "print" command from within FTM and selecting the third party pdf printer.
View ArticleRe: Family Tree Maker 2012 Sync problems
The statement made "Run don't walk from Family Tree Maker 2012" is not really true.This may be true if you are trying to sync a very large file with lots of media.I agree that the syncing needed to be...
View ArticleRe: Family Tree Maker 2012 Sync problems
I too have had syncing problems, In fact, I have been unable to sync since August. I've contacted Ancestry twice. None of their suggestion have helped. When I log on to Family Tree, I get a note...
View ArticleRe: Merging Sources - Advantage or Not?
Hi Think I may have solved this. Having reviewed all the entries in each "source", there are identical in all but one area - the source repositery is "Ancestry.com" in one Census record and...
View ArticleRe: ftm 2012 and windows 8
Thanks silverfoxI knew that :)I have left all downloaded media in the media folder; however, I keep digital copies of reference books in a separate folder because they are also managed by another...
View ArticleRe: Merging Sources - Advantage or Not?
I have been cleaning up my data the last few days as well and had as many as 3 dozen of any one census sources! As far as I could tell, the differences were primarily due to time and typing. For...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 and FTM 2006 compatibility
I just use Adobe PDF printer software to print to PDF. This enables you to use the program in both windows 7 and 8. It says it is not compatible but it works just fine this way.
View ArticleRe: Merging Sources - Advantage or Not?
I've had the same issue with duplicate sources and I've seen several other comments about the same. I have corrected my sources twice, a couple hundred each time. Not fun! I called tech spt when first...
View ArticleLinks to an uncle or aunt
I have a family member who is an aunt to another on my tree.How do I establish the link aunt/nephew in FTM 2012? Its easy when you have the parents details but in this case I don't.
View ArticleRe: Merging Sources - Advantage or Not?
You are absolutely right, and good advice, too. Had I known the consequences I would not have added comments to the source. I don't understand why it keeps happening, but now I often see 3 and even 4...
View ArticleRe: Links to an uncle or aunt
In FTM, you can only link persons:Child to parent / family and vice versaSpouse to spouseSo, you have to work within those parameters.Now, what do you know? Do you know if the aunt or uncle is maternal...
View ArticleRe: Merging Sources - Advantage or Not?
Your experience is why I advised the original poster to not change sources coming from FTM merges from ancestry.com databases.There can be unintended consequences of changing what FTM posted - so I...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 and FTM 2006 compatibility
We are hearing from people who are using third party workarounds. This has always been possible. But it wasn't actually needed for W7. The inbuilt pdf could be used successfully with the patch and XP...
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