Re: City Without County in Place Hierarchy?
PNA = Place Name AuthorityThe polygon idea allows for overlapping areas and removes the arbitrary and limiting construct of a heirarchy.Polygons allow for overlap so that a city can be part of two or...
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I don't know FTM well enough to know if it has a hidden utility, but what you should be able to do is export the DB as a GEDCOM file and change:1 NAME lastname /first/-to-1 NAME /lastname/ firstThen...
View ArticleNotes for Online tree
I have been working on my family tree for about 10 years now and hope to have it finished in a couple of more years. It is in my Family Tree Maker 2012 database I have a lot of notes that are pertinent...
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I get the biblical reference of "gagging at gnats", but I don't understand what part of this discussion is the equivalent of swallowing camels.I have no qualms with leaving jurisdictions blank, but I...
View ArticleRe: Needing to upgrade Family Tree Maker Version 7 by Broderbund
The short anser is that FTM 2012 will read your FTM version 7 file without any retypingSome things to considerBack up your FTM 7 file as a .FTW file not the compressed .FBC that FTM 7 backup produces....
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The online tree, good as it is is, not good with notes.I would suggest that you preserve your notes in FTM which as many ways to handle notesJohn D
View ArticleRe: Needing to upgrade Family Tree Maker Version 7 by Broderbund
Thanks John. These look like good instructions and quite to the point. I am reassured that the new version will be able to absorb all my data.
View ArticleRe: Needing to upgrade Family Tree Maker Version 7 by Broderbund
Due to an awful 'hack' instituted in FTM 7 when the maps feature was introduced and continued through to FTM 16 you needed to add your places as a comment / location. It was called the slash...
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Only "person" notes sync to the ancestry member tree. And then, only the tree owner and anyone invited to the tree with editor status can view the notes. For my notes which I want other users to be...
View ArticleRe: Switching Surnames and given names - Tech question
thank you for the quick help.I managed to export the file and ope it up with a clever Notepad utility. At this point I am stuck though. I do not know what command I can use to switch the names around...
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The notes that I am most interested in is those notes that tag some data.For research purposes for some of my people I have estimated a birth date based on their children's ages. ie if a mother has a...
View ArticleRe: Switching Surnames and given names - Tech question
Do not switch the values only the /The Gedcom standard says that // around a name denotes a surname. Surnames can come in any order and while FTM does not support all cases, it does, IIRC, support...
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Okay, I understand better now, what your point is, I had missed the explanation of PNA and yes I mis spoke in reference to township and range as historical names rather than positions. Although it does...
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" ie if a mother has a child in 1900, she was probably born between 1830 and 1880."I hope this is a typo- I can't see a woman born in 1830 having a child in 1900. I would think a more likely range to...
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opera70 comment"I was a little mystified by the Township and Range discussion; these are not "Historic names" they are simple geographic grid locations. In a lot of the midwest it seems fairly common...
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1830 was a typos should have been 1850. While there are mothers who are 16 (1884) at the time of their first child, in my experience the average age was about 20 in the communities that my families...
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I simply use Abt. 1850 the date field which tells me it is an estimate but is useful when scanning through new data to keep me in the right time period.
View ArticleRe: FTM 2006 /Windows 7 Professional
John: Reinstallation did not change the situation. The options under the toolbar are still not available. I HATE Windows 7! Very frustrating OS. What were they thinking.
View ArticleRe: FTM 2006 /Windows 7 Professional
I don't want to use FTM 2011 or higher. (Which I have installed on my comptuer), because a) I find FTM 2011 very frustrating to use; b) FTM 2012 data entry screens are "messy" and not simple like...
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