Re: How do I get it as a note, not media?
Set up your scanner to use OCR (Optical character recognition). Read your scanner manual for help.
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Hi,I have recently re-installed WinXP and now FTM 2012 is nearly unusable. Unfortunately, before I could test FTM, the mandatory update was installed. The update corrected lots of functional issues but...
View ArticleRe: How do I get it as a note, not media?
Thank you, it is a fairly new one, so I will look for that. :)
View ArticleRe: How do I get it as a note, not media?
Some PDF programs can convert image text into editable text. You then copy and paste.Regards,
View ArticleRe: How do I get it as a note, not media?
Or, simpler yet, re-key the information on the mass card into notepad or Word. The amount of information on a mass card is usually very short - keying (typing) is faster than scanning as OCR and then...
View ArticleRe: How do I get it as a note, not media?
Since you have it already as an image, download one of the free image processing program that has OCR. I know because, I use it constantly for what you want to do, that the Free Irfanview with the OCR...
View ArticleRe: Um, where are plugins?
"I've been wanting a program to help me keep track of censuses for generations of families for quite some time"Please explain, I am not sure of what you wanted. Apparently the census fact is not...
View ArticleRe: Um, where are plugins?
Yes, that's what I would like. I created a spreadsheet back in 2002 to help me keep track of families that I found and to help me remember who needed tracked down. I also added extras to help me keep...
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Got FTM 2012 last week.Is there any way of showing everyone on the screen when compiling a family tree. I mean in the main screen, not in the sub-menus below.Maybe this can be done when creating a...
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If you have 10,000 ancestors and cousins in your tree, how would you propose that they be "on the screen". Do you mean in list? Or in trees?If you want a list, that is what the index is for. That's the...
View ArticleRe: Tree became unlinked
Seem it has hit me too now but figured it was due to all the sync issues so don't plan to unlink it yet. Besides it would take me forever to reupload it right now. Have a lot of media files.
View ArticleRe: Family Tree Maker 2012 Sync problems
Having similar issues. I have 3061 people in my tree and i have successfully synched before. I am currently waiting on a synch to complete (the portion that says importing FTM changes into your...
View ArticleRe: Tree became unlinked
Don't need to unlink. Just close FTM and re-open. There seems to be some sort of timing problem in the handshake between the 2 systems made worse by the server problems.
View ArticleRe: Tree became unlinked
I closed FTM and reopen and still had problems. I closed again and waited a few mins and reopen and it worked.
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I am going to make an assumption that you do not mean everybody in your database, but every body in a family. As I remember when installed FTM show four windows. On the right is the index, with...
View ArticleFamily Tree Maker 2010
Does anyone know where I can purchase a new and inexpensive copy of FTM 2010? My mom still prefers this version but is getting a new computer. We can't find our old discs to put the program on her new...
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I found one on eBay that doesn't include an Ancestry subscription but it is in the UK. Amazon has them with the Ancestry subscriptions.
View ArticleRe: Um, where are plugins?
Is not this type of report the same as in the source reports for FTM? I have attached the source report for my father. When I click on the 1910 census the detail and text appear on the right. The...
View ArticleRe: Um, where are plugins?
Have you tried the research notes in FTM. I have not used it as it does not work for me.I use spreadsheets a lot in my research. In fact I have one called Facts for each of my families. In those...
View ArticleFacts and Places are aggravating indeed
I found a book showing the cemetery where a person in my tree is buried.Began entering this. First, does it go in a Cemetery fact or in a Burial fact? Seems duplicative, except for cases where person...
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