Re: Where do you enter your data? online or home computer?
Also you're better off putting in things manually rather than merging from another tree. Mines not perfect either and I've learned a lesson. Slowly trying to make it more acceptable.
View ArticleProblems with Places
I am attaching a Screen Shot of the "Place" option in "Places in FTM 2012. I find this facility erratic and quite often FTM cannot find the correct location however can anyone tell me what the question...
View ArticleUpload to FTM Incomplete.
Looking at "Places" in FTM 2012 I discovered that there was only one name associated with a particular place when there should have been three. I looked at the "Person" page and discovered that the...
View ArticleRe: Death and Burial
KMA,I would agree with you that all facts should have some source identified to as to where the "fact" came from. However, not all "facts" are produced directly from an event that correspondes to the...
View ArticleRe: Pennsylvania German Pioneers
Can you provide a link to this "Pennsylvania German Pioneers 700+page ship manifest book"?Is this search through Family Tree Maker or is it a hint from a Ancestry tree, or is it just a search at the...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Places
The question mark signifies that FTM has not been asked to resolve the place and/or it hasn't been resolved.To see what is going on, right click on one of these place names. You will see a right click...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Places
Thank you very much for your replies. I am in the UK. I have tried resolving one troublesome place name where clicking on the name brings up the wrong location. By adding England to the town and county...
View ArticleRe: Standard format for places in the USA
Thanks to all for the responses.Unfortunately, that KB link is what caused my query. No real help for entering the info. I've also looked at other KB articles and the FTM Companion Guide with no...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Places
The icon to the left of the entry means "Unrecognized place name".That the listed name, "as is" does not agree with any entries in the places database. That said, is because them database is based on...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Places
If I am understanding you right, you are in the Place Workspace and are seeing some names that are resolved with the country in the name and you have opted to see the "heirarchical view" (see buttons...
View ArticleRe: Standard format for places in the USA
I wouldn't call the PNA "absurd". I would call it incomplete and has a few errors (some parts of the world worse than others) and is limiting when it only considers 4 part locations, when 5 or 6 parts...
View ArticleRe: Where do you enter your data? online or home computer?
A couple other considerations for using FTM as your primary.1) Consistency of Place Names. You can control consistency of place name spellings and completeness better in FTM.2) Filters. In my surname...
View ArticleFTM 2009 Books - Media Items
I am putting a book together in FTM 2009. Having problem with Media Items. When I bring up the chosen media item everything if fine until I go the right panel and change the Report Title from Media...
View ArticleRe: Family Tree Maker on Linux
I have used FTM 2012 on the last two or three version of Ubuntu. The last being 12.10. I had previously read of problems with Wine so first used VirtualBox but had a lot of issues so changed to VMWare...
View ArticleRe: Canadians can't buy online???
I'm a Canadian and last night I entered a bogus US address with 90210 as the postal code, and I paid through Paypal (no US credit card address).I managed to download and install it perfectly, AND had a...
View ArticleRe: Where do you enter your data? online or home computer?
Thank you very much!I appreciate your help..and the detail you've provided.Reading through these message boards has been very helpful as I relaunch my efforts into building my family tree. I began this...
View ArticleRe: Pennsylvania German Pioneers
Search TAB>Card catalog>Pennsylvania German Pioneers (TITLE), click search..you will get three results. Here is link:http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx#ccat=hc%3...
View ArticleRe: Pennsylvania German Pioneers
Then this is a Ancestry issue and not a Family Tree Maker one.This area is for FTM issues and not ones that one would run into using the Ancestry webpage search.As stated above, you need to cantack...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 Media Directory Preferences using Dropbox
Hi SilverfoxI have spent some considerable time investigating your suggestions. The results are indicated in CAPS below.1) Create a new .ftm file with one person in it in the D Dropbox folder.2) Add a...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 Media Directory Preferences using Dropbox
Hi bmorton66I have experimented with your suggestions below…“make an ftmb backup including the media, move that file to your D: folder and open it there, then change the file locations in options to...
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