Re: FTM2012 Corrupting Data Today Worse than when Problems Reported 13 Months...
As others before me have - thank you for detailing the problems and the steps you've taken with Ancestry to get solutions.I dedicated the holiday season to cleaning my files after converting from TMG...
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 Synchronization Frequently Take in Excess of Two Hours
"While I don't have much hope that the "Support Team" has the authority to answer questions like this, perhaps the Mr. or Ms Higgins in the Copy field would have enough sufficient authority to allocate...
View ArticleRe: Tracking adoptions
ALL of these reasons are why adopted, step, and foster relations should NOT be included in a family charts - period.If the report has the word Ancestor(s) of Descendant(s) in it then it is meant to be...
View ArticleRe: Tracking adoptions
This is one of my pet peeves of FTM software.It also exhibits this behavior with regards to persons you may designate as having a step-relationship with (by using the Relationship button at the person...
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 Synchronization Frequently Take in Excess of Two Hours
You must be fun at parties.
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 Synchronization Frequently Take in Excess of Two Hours
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!If your issue is not directly related to the problem I posted about, don't put it in this thread.Putting it in this thread effectively pollutes the issue I am reporting and does...
View ArticleFTM2012 Synchronization Frequently Take in Excess of Two Hours
I just suffered through yet another 2+ hour synchronization time after making minimal updates that affected 81 changes to 40 persons in my medium-sized tree of 15,000 persons.These 2+ hour...
View ArticleFTM2012 Synchronization Frequently Take in Excess of Two Hours
I just suffered through yet another 2+ hour synchronization time after making minimal updates that affected 81 changes to 40 persons in my medium-sized tree of 15,000 persons.These 2+ hour...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 BOOK CRASHES
FTM 2012 Book does not crash when I try to use it, but I do find that it is quite limited.I recently completed a Family History Album as a wedding present. I used Microsoft Word to create it, and I...
View ArticleRe: Management of Resources
When you say "Resources" what are you referring to - media? sources? citations?Sources & citations are held within the .FTM file, so they are not shared among trees. Media is another story. Media...
View ArticleRe: Media sync
Have you tried this process?http://ftm.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5325/
View ArticleRe: WinXP vs Win7
You should not be copying over your FTM files directly. The safest method is to back up your tree (which will create a .FTMB file), then copy that file to the new computer and restore it. The tree...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 on Network
My advice - don't do it. I've played with it, and while it can work - I've encountered too many instances of sync errors after editing from the 2nd machine. Keep FTM on one machine, if you must use...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 on Network
I think I'm going to rely on the Remote Desktop solution for now (I'm lucky that my home network is speedy -- there really is no lag). I'm hopeful that at some point we'll have a network version of...
View ArticleUnable to search & merge
All of a sudden yesterday, I am not able to search & merge ancestry.com from with FTM 2012. Is anybody else having this problem or know how to fix it?
View ArticleRe: Tracking adoptions
A nice woraround by silver foxBut it is just a workaround in that it appears that the system was not properly designed to handle the situation described by the original poster [and so a workaround to...
View ArticleRe: Tracking adoptions
Thanks for the useful feedback.How do we feed back suggestions to the developers?I am prepared to that a go.RegardsRichard
View ArticleRe: Entering Place Names in FTM: Specifically County and Country
I use the Place Name Authority. If the PNA flags the name I want to use I reply ignore. My nonstandard name becomes an entry in the place name list. When I enter that name again my nonstandard name is...
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 Synchronization Frequently Take in Excess of Two Hours
Definitely fun - new to the board and thinks his opinion is the only one that matters to anyone.
View ArticleRe: Entering Place Names in FTM: Specifically County and Country
I use USA as the country for my US-based family - takes some work since ancestry's records are annoyingly inconsistent - some have USA, some have US, some have United States, some have United States of...
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