Re: FTM Extended Family Chart
Nope - these are not cousins... it seems that people that have extended families on both sides seem to be the worst offenders.
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What other option would you suggest?If a different color is used for each island and you have a large file, there aren't enough colors in the rainbow to distinguish all of one's islands.If you were to...
View ArticleRe: FTM Extended Family Chart
This is correct. The general rule is that the chart begins with the blood relatives of the selected person.Then, if spouses have extended family entered, an island is created for that extended family...
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"What other option would you suggest?"I would suggest that you use the fantasitc "marked box" capabily that Geoff built into all the FTM charts.This lets you mark each and every box (or group of boxes)...
View ArticleRe: FTM Extended Family Chart
This is not a practical choice for a file of even a modest size of several thousand people where you can have dozens of islands - and not to mention a larger file with hundreds to thousands of islands.
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It doesn't even have enough colors for my little chart I want. There are only three different colors that I can see. And there are descendants of eight children.That being said, I don't use the...
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"It doesn't even have enough colors for my little chart I want. There are only three different colors that I can see. And there are descendants of eight children".Not trueGo into Box line and borders ,...
View ArticleOrphan Record Report
It sounds like what you need is the opposite of the Extended Family Chart - that is: an Orphan Record Dataset (in report or chart format - or just added to the regular FTM filter).With the "Include...
View ArticleRe: Sync Failed-An error occurred while "Preparing data to be downloaded from...
Glad to hear that. If you ran chkdsk and did not watch it, it may have fixed bad-spot or file-structure errors. It does not record these fixes.
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I've tried to make an example and attached it here. Hope it works.This is a simple chart. Two "circles" or "islands" that are connected by a marriage of Child Ext Fam. She is a daughter in one "circle"...
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OK, then I need directions in how to apply these to a person and all his descendants and spouses. The only way I see to do that is to choose person, all descendants and spouses, mark 1, and that is one...
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 Corrupting Data Today Worse than when Problems Reported 13 Months...
HiI too have a syncing problem, none of the data corruption, although I recently ran a data errors report, to discover a whole host "child sort issues". I wish there was a process to fix them all at...
View ArticleRe: FTM2012 Corrupting Data Today Worse than when Problems Reported 13 Months...
I uPgraded to windows 8 and have not had any problems at all
View ArticleRe: FTM Extended Family Chart
Please re read my previous postsYou can use the right mouse to bring up a comprehensive selection menu plus the Ctrl and Shift keys (normnal Windows protocols) can also select multiple peopleJohn D
View ArticleColoring Boxes in Reports
This was getting too complicated in another thread. And I still don't see any way past having three sets of "Marked Boxes."Yes, each box of Mark 1 can have a variety of attributes. And each box of Mark...
View ArticleRe: Relationship Calculator in FTM 2012 and Online Trees
It would be nice if one could set a "preferred relationship" when there are multiple relationships to the home person.
View ArticleRe: FTM Extended Family Chart
The thing is, that FTM seems to be creating small islands for no particular reason -- even when the spacing would be fine. Oh well.
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 has stopped working
Terry,Ancestry.com knows they have this problem. I found it during beta testing that they let me do in 2011 and they refused to fix it. Instead they dumped it on the public. Like a dummy I transferred...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 has stopped working
Hi Jim,Sorry to hear you have had problems too.I finally deleted FTM 2012 and did a re-install, so now I can use FTM again, however, I have lost the sync between my Ancestry tree and FTM 2012 on my PC,...
View ArticleRe: Coloring Boxes in Reports
The three marked boxes are only options to identify them for further editing if you wish.You can mark all of them Mark one if you like then go back and use the box. line and border to change the...
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