Re: FTM 2012 Relationship > Kinship Reports
Chaya,I know of NO program that will do as you desire.True, all of the current versions of family research programs, do not recognise the same sex marriages and non married parents. It is assumed that...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading from 2011 to 2012
Thanks for your response. I've asked this question before and was told it was not possible. But, as you have indicated this is an option available with the last patch. I now have confidence in...
View ArticleRe: Is there a list of known problems with FTM 2012 and between FTM &...
SilverFox and I have the same method -- pasting details/information into the fact notes. And the attachments of the ancestry images (i.e. screenshots, pdf of the printer-friendly page, etc) are not...
View ArticleRe: Splitting Family Trees
If you have entered nothing but ancestors and their children and nobody else (ie peripheral relatives, such as other spouses, other spouses of other spouses, children of other spouses, parents of...
View ArticleCharts displaying relationship FTM2012
I have a number of adopted people in a tree and when I display a chart like Extended Family, I can not find a way to include the relationship. The adoption item is set on the...
View ArticleRe: Online versus on computer
Good points on both accounts. Since I do a majority of my work online and on Ancestry.com, I think I would be served just as well making a back-up copy periodically rather than invest in FTM for my...
View ArticleRe: Online versus on computer
Not mentioned yet is the Advanced Database management functions of FTM. It does some things that Ancestry just can not do. And to me of equal import are the extensive reports and charts available in...
View ArticleList Living People in Family Tree or Family Tree Maker 2012
I'm finding some people in my on-line Family Tree have been marked as "Living" as a Status within the Vital Information tab on the "Edit this Person" window. Some of these people are not Living. I...
View ArticleRe: Charts displaying relationship FTM2012
You said: "I have a number of adopted people in a tree and when I display a chart like Extended Family, I can not find a way to include the relationship. The adoption item is set on the...
View ArticleRe: Charts displaying relationship FTM2012
Thanks.In the particular tree I mentioned, the children's natural parents are not known. RONC
View ArticleRe: Enhancement Request: Option to export preferred facts to GEDCOM
There are a number of options to export a file. What options are you selecting?I use: Entire FileFormat 5.5, uncheck everything, okDestination: OtherCharacter set: UTF-8WorldConnect recognizes my...
View ArticleRe: Enhancement Request: Option to export preferred facts to GEDCOM
Hmm. I've tried a number of different options - the only difference I saw was that character set ANSII supported accents - but I suspect that I could upload the same GEDCOM that doesn't work on...
View ArticleRe: Charts displaying relationship FTM2012
If they are not known, a father and mother can be setup as Birth Father and Birth Mother and they be marked as PREFERRED PARENTS.Is this a person from the 1800's or a contemporary person living...
View ArticleRe: Charts displaying relationship FTM2012
The dates for these children are in the middle 1800's and supposedly all records were destroyed.RON C
View ArticleRe: Enhancement Request: Option to export preferred facts to GEDCOM
FamilyTreeDNA doesn't handled preferred names. They use the first one in the file. I've contacted their support about this and they said they were thinking about it.I had to create a special...
View ArticleRe: Enhancement Request: Option to export preferred facts to GEDCOM
Huh. From the file I looked at the first name listed was the preferred one, and subsequent were alternates. So I theorized that it was overwriting the good data with bad. Here's the message I posted to...
View ArticleRe: Enhancement Request: Option to export preferred facts to GEDCOM
Also I looked at the GEDCOM 5.5 format:http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gc...And it doesn't appear to have a flag for preferred name or fact.
View ArticleRe: Online versus on computer
If you cancel your paid subscription to Ancestry.com, you will not have access to the record images. This may or may not matter to you. Having the tree on yor computer, you can have all of the record...
View ArticleRe: Splitting Family Trees
I am you have these surnames in your file because they are somehow related, Your paternal and maternal lines, your wife’s paternal and maternal lines, etc. Splitting these lines into different file...
View ArticleRe: Enhancement Request: Option to export preferred facts to GEDCOM
You do not need a "Preferred Fact" flag in the GEDCOM. Please read the following from the GEDCOM standard."The order in which GEDCOM lines are written to a GEDCOM file is controlled by the context and...
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