Re: List Living People in Family Tree or Family Tree Maker 2012
You should be able to just place a "Y" (without qoutes) in the description field of the DEATh tag which based on the GEDCOM standard is the correct thing to do.@Duff does this work correctly in FTM?
View ArticleRe: Unrecognised place names - because they no longer exist FTM2012
Thanks Rosemary - I will bookmark it for future reference.
View ArticlePhotos and FTM 2012
I purchased FTM 2012 back when it first came out but because of all of the initial problems with the program I chose to not load it at that time. Hopefully the majority of the problems have been...
View ArticleRe: Splitting Family Trees
I have been wanting to splint my spouses family off from mine as the file is getting to large.I don't quite understand when you say right click in blank white space". Do you mean on the chart that has...
View ArticleRe: Best method if you don't know surname/forename?
I have FTM 2010 & use (--?--) for unknown names. But I have realized that when that is used as an unknown last name FTM 2010 turns it around and makes it the it the first name. Very disturbing.
View ArticleRe: Best method if you don't know surname/forename?
Sorry, it is the opposite. It changes it to a surname, not the first name.
View ArticleRe: Photos and FTM 2012
Mike, I have FTM and each time I add to my ancestry.com tree, I then at some point need to open FTM and tell it to sync up. If you open FTM first, it checks to see if the tree needs to be sync'd up...
View ArticleRe: Splitting Family Trees
Yes, anywhere in empty white space in the chart.The Extended Family Chart is the replacement / new name for the old All-in-One Chart.
View ArticleRe: Photos and FTM 2012
If I'm reading you correctly and I load FTM 2012 on the new computer AND it works properly, then I can expect it to sync all of the information currently posted on Ancestry to the FTM file on the...
View ArticleRe: List Living People in Family Tree or Family Tree Maker 2012
FTM does support adding "Y" to the death description field, and TreeSync does transfer it to the online tree. However, having this information in the online tree is not enough by itself to remove the...
View ArticleRe: Extracting and merging a specific record from other member tree
Is the 1961 directory an ACOM record, or was it something the other tree owner found elsewhere? If it's an ACOM record, I would think you could click the citation and get to that record. I do this with...
View ArticleRe: Online versus on computer
Well I really appreciate all the good input in both directions. I was leaning away from a PC version instead of all online but am now really rethinking it. Now I'll have to start a new post on FTM...
View ArticleRe: Extracting and merging a specific record from other member tree
Yes! That is a big help. Here is the record I want to work. Cecil is my father. I pulled the other relevant Stevens into my FTM file with...
View ArticleRe: Extracting and merging a specific record from other member tree
The issue is with how the index was created for the Beta City Directory database.The index was created using OCR (optical character recognition) - a computer program, rather than a human-created...
View ArticleJane Holley
Searching the birth ,marriage & death of Jane Holley she was born abt 1876 in Nova Scotia Canada
View ArticleRe: Extracting and merging a specific record from other member tree
Here is what I would do:Search Catalog > Title > U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta) Click on the link to that databaseEnter each name as you have it.Enter Bath, Maine as "lived in"Copy the...
View ArticleRe: Photos and FTM 2012
yes, it should. It needs to be done manually....it isn't automatic, but yes, it should all sync very nicely together. :-) I really like that aspect of FTM.
View ArticleRe: List Living People in Family Tree or Family Tree Maker 2012
It should be since the GEDCOM standard says:"1 DEAT Y should be used to imply a death known to have happened but date and place are unknown,"I would say that this is a bug in the online software.
View ArticleRe: Photos and FTM 2012
After you install the software and open it, you will need to tell it to download/link your ancestry tree to create a file in FTM. It will download your tree in it's entirety, including all media. The...
View ArticleRe: Photos and FTM 2012
Mike, If Ancestry.com is your main tree, then you should make your changes there. Don't try to make some changes in FTM and some in Ancestry. The sync process is still a bit fragile and many people...
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