Re: "Living People" in Descendant Report
You said: "So should I just do a mass "?" on all birthdates and deathdates that have nothing in them?"I always put an estimated birth date in for everyone in my file. I use conventions like a person is...
View ArticleRe: Purschase
Who did you buy it from?ancestry.com or another source?Could it have been lost in the christmas snail mailings to you? Ancestry.com has a phone number you can call. See about at {Get Help}Call your...
View ArticleRe: In FTM 2012, how do I handle a child of my g-grandpa that was adopted by...
Can we assume you have these the father, brother & spouse and sister & spouse already in your database? And, you've already entered the adoptee with his natural (blood) parents? If so,Select...
View ArticleRe: In FTM 2012, how do I handle a child of my g-grandpa that was adopted by...
Can we assume you have these the father, brother & spouse and sister & spouse already in your database? And, you've already entered the adoptee with his natural (blood) parents? If so,Select...
View ArticleRe: In FTM 2012, how do I handle a child of my g-grandpa that was adopted by...
Can we assume you have these the father, brother & spouse and sister & spouse already in your database? And, you've already entered the adoptee with his natural (blood) parents? If so,Select...
View ArticleRe: Login Failure
" I didn't realize that that login was for ancestry.com" mike,All the different country urls link back to the Salt Lake City set of servers so it doesn't matter where you are.When FTM has to connect to...
View ArticleRe: Is there a list of known problems with FTM 2012 and between FTM &...
I agree with the warnings about being careful using info from other trees. My wife's family come from Liverpool, in England, yet there are a lot of AMT trees with one person who died in Liverpool,...
View ArticleGenerations Family Tree Software
Several years ago I purchased this software by Sierra.It was originally for Windows 95 and 98 but I now use it on Windows 7.I would like to copy the program and share it with members of my family but...
View ArticleRe: Generations Family Tree Software
Export a GEDCOM file to a safe place. This is what I did when I left "Generations" a long time ago.NOTE: This board is for Family Tree Maker software. Most people on this board have not used...
View Articlesuggest to add a certain faq to ftm 2012
How does one suggest to FTM 2012 that they add a new comment / answer on their faq list?
View Articlemark as living/deceased
Does anyone know how to mark an individual as living/deceased in FTM 2012? I can do it on the Ancestry website (when you edit an individual there is a choice of 2 radio buttons 'living' and...
View ArticleRe: mark as living/deceased
There is no such tag in FTM.You can:1) enter an estimated birth date, which will be used in privatization procedures (either within FTM or ancestry.com or worldconnect.com or wherever) by the criteria...
View ArticleRe: Converting from version 16 to 2012
Can anyone suggest how I can upgrade from the 2006 version 16 to 2012?
View ArticleUnrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
I have the place name of "Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire, England" and I can not get FTM2012 to recognise it in any decent respect, primarily because apart from the England bit, the rest of the place...
View ArticleRe: Unrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
Did you try Yorkshire North Riding or North Riding of Yorkshire?If you did, I apologise.
View ArticleRe: Unrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
no, because neither of those are the place name I want to have recorded.I simply want to be able to add North Yorkshire as it was, and then add Arkengarthdale as it was, so that both are in the right...
View ArticleRe: Unrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
For places that no longer exist by the same name, I either "ignore place warning" or move the 'offending' portion of the location to the description field. Many members of my maternal line were...
View ArticleRe: Unrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
If I ignore the place warning, the location doesn't show up in the Heirarchical list of places, and the only location in the place name as I want it that FTM does recognise is "England".I want to at...
View ArticleRe: Unrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
kmthomster: Have I seen you on Facebook today? That town name is sort of unique.
View ArticleRe: Generations Family Tree Software
There is a forum on this software at:http://genforum.genealogy.com/generations/
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