Re: Illegitimate Half-Brothers
adopted. She could not have given them his name without his permission. Someday they will read this post, nice going
View Articletwo spouses not linking properly
I have Tonino my cousin and Maria my cousin entered into FTM (am using version 2010). When I look at them separately, the program recognizes they are both my cousins. They happen to be married to each...
View ArticleTreemaker 2006
I absolutely love this windows based program vs. the newer versions. I wish it held more information. Very user friendly. I had a problem with my computer and took it into the shop. I had to uninstall...
View ArticleRe: Illegitimate Half-Brothers
I imagine she could give them whatever name she wished. And if she kept her ex husband's surname after the divorce, she certainly can give any subsequent children that surname as well. Names have...
View ArticleRe: two spouses not linking properly
I have a couple instances of first cousins marrying, along with numerous other multiple relationships between various duos in my tree. What shows in the right hand column in the person/family view tab...
View ArticleRe: Win 8
Supposedly 8 utilizes memory better than 7 for 32 bite programs.It does shut down less frequent with my large tree.
View ArticleSort ALL children by birthdate
When I moved over to FTM 2012 the children in every family are not sorted by birthdate. I can sort them for each individual family view, but since I have 5000+ names I'm wondering if there is a Global...
View ArticleRe: Process Error - media not complete
One thing that concerns me is that I've just looked at the Error Log files that I generated when I sent the original support request, and there are no media items in error. I suspect that as I clicked...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Ahnentafel Reports in FTM 2006 & 2011
I figured out how to make the pdfs of the ahnentafel reports. It worked when I exported them as word files first and then used word to make them into pdfs.I'm the base person in my tree and according...
View ArticleRe: two spouses not linking properly
StellinaThis issue has been discussed several times on this message board. The relationship calculator and report in FTM 2008 and later are sadly deficient when compared to earlier releases. What you...
View ArticleRe: Illegitimate Half-Brothers
Any person in Family Tree Maker can be assigned up to 99 spouses, so adding two shouldn't be a problem. If you don't want them recorded as husbands, click on the button to edit marriage details (its...
View ArticleRe: Treemaker 2006
I've used FTM 2006 through several generations of computers. For me its worked on Xp, Vista, and Windows 7. As the number of individuals in the tree has increased, certain kinds of reports have...
View ArticleRe: 2012 problems
I use FTM 2006. I tried using FTM 2011 for a few months, but stopped using it due to the incredible amount of errors it generated and its extreme inconvenience. I've decided to hold off buying any new...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Ahnentafel Reports in FTM 2006 & 2011
I think that is your problem right there. I only have 800 ancestors and I'm pretty sure my machine or FTM could not handle the memory requirements for that report. I'm not even going to try as I don't...
View ArticleFTM 2012 backward compatibility with FTM 2006?
I just purchased FTM2012 and now realize that I can't save a version back to my copy of 2006. Is there any way to export to a format (besides GEDCOM) that my 2006 copy will read? The goal is to access...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Ahnentafel Reports in FTM 2006 & 2011
Why not skip the word step and print directly to one of the PDF writers. There are several free PDF writers, like CutePDFwriter, etc. I have used PDF writers for years and avoided all of the problems...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 backward compatibility with FTM 2006?
I didn't realize their license was different. I guess it is time to install my new 2012 license on a desktop of mine and see if it activates. Thanks for the tip!
View ArticleRe: fmt no longer linked
I think at this point, all I'm left with is un-linking the online tree and then downloading it to FTM.
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 backward compatibility with FTM 2006?
On double checking, the following is from the ancestry website. I believe that if you have a CD, you are "on your honor" about how many times to install it. But, the electronic version apparently locks...
View ArticleRe: fmt no longer linked
what I would tree is to make a backup of the tree with the link then delete the tree and restore the tree and link and see if that works before unlinking and relinking.
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