Can't send gedcom or upload to ancestry......
I have been trying without success to send a gedcom of my family tree or compacting the file, everything is working well untill it comes to analysing sourse material when the program crashes and...
View ArticleRe: Merge Box Not Refreshing When Navigating Ancestry Databases
It seems to be working this morning - Fri 02/08/2013. So it is not a mulit-week thing to fix this time.
View ArticlePosition of Notes Screen
This is kind of basic but I am still baffled. On Crista Cowan's videos she shows her notes screen over on the right. Mine is on the bottom. FTM 2012. How do I move it over.While I'm on the subject,...
View ArticleNo hints are showing up?
I've just installed FTM 2012. I've logged into my Ancestry account (with .co.uk) on there and I've also synced my tree up with Ancestry. When I look at my tree actually on Ancestry I can see the leaf...
View ArticleRe: No hints are showing up?
Click on Tools, then Options and tick "Search online ...."
View ArticleRe: Position of Notes Screen
If the video showed the Family View, rather than Person View, you can access the notes of the focus person from the right hand panel. There are 5 icons in the right hand panel; facts, media, notes, web...
View ArticleRe: Can't send gedcom or upload to ancestry......
Firstly would you please advise what version of FTM that you are using?I would suggest that you also carefully read the linked KB article on fixing...
View ArticleRe: How to enter Headstone info for more than one name?
Thanks for the rely silverfox3280. I see how your technique will work. Thank you!
View ArticleRe: Converting from version 16 to 2012
I believe I found the offending person and will re-download your file and test this person out on the original file (without all of the other names that I changed with illegal characters). Fixing the...
View ArticleRe: Converting from version 16 to 2012
In the conversion, many of the images are of an unknown file type. If you know the source of the file, you can add the proper suffix to the files. This may take awhile as there are 100's of them.This...
View ArticleRe: Position of Notes Screen
Thank you so much. There is so much in this software to learn. You have helped me greatly. Wow. Thanks again.
View ArticleTree Settings for Downloading from Ancestry.com to FTM2012
I downloaded my first tree to my ftm2012. I clicked MANUAL for sync and also clicked on the citation box for media. I downloaded the tree and checked my files to see if downloaded pictures and census...
View ArticleRe: No hints are showing up?
Thanks for that, I'd somehow completely missed 'Options'! All working now :)
View ArticleRe: Can't send gedcom or upload to ancestry......
I am using family tree maker 2012 unfortunately although i have been taking regular back ups i did not know when the problem occurred so all the back ups have the same issues.I have tried all the...
View ArticleMedia Question
My question is, when adding media to FTM 12 in the settings on private and at one point they were uploaded online to ancestry then I made them private will they ever show up on the ancestry database...
View ArticleFTM 2012 Media Linking
Hi, apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere.When I create a new source citation, I link relevant media to it. Then I link that citation to the relevant fact associated with a person.SO... in...
View ArticleDeath and Burial
I would like to know how others handle these two facts. My question concerns the dates you put on these two facts. The death date is obvious, and easily found. However the burial date is not. To keep...
View ArticleRe: Death and Burial
It is OK to estimate the burial date for people, but remember DON'T JUST ENTER A DATE unless you actually know the real date. Use the "EST" value before the Estimated Date you ar entering.So if you add...
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