ENHANCEMENT REQUEST - Tasks
PLEASE.... Need to be able to add tasks to multiple people (or all individuals in tree) at the same time. I need to be able to add tasks to everyone in the tree or by a filtered list of individuals....
View ArticleOFF-TOPIC: Carbonite
This is one year after the above post, dated Dec 2011. I am a satisifed user of Carbonite since this last summer - summer of 2012. I don't know for sure what the situation was in the time frame you...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 - Sync Failure. Now FTM will not open.
Marco,Thank you for the additional detail.I uninstalled FTM and then renamed each of these directories. I then re-installed FTM. Unfortunately, still no success. FTM will not launch for me.This is...
View ArticleRe: ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: Tags to Group People
I've sometimes created custom facts that I can use like tags. The virtue of this is that a person can have multiple custom tags and you don't have to remember a custom filter every time you need to...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 - Sync Failure. Now FTM will not open.
Something very basic to check that stumped me for hours was to make sure your date and time are correct on your computer. Sync will fail and even logins if it's not set corretly or is off by any...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 - Sync Failure. Now FTM will not open.
I discovered another sync fix. FTM stores temporary files that are used while the sync is in progress. If the connection times out these can become corrupt. Do this when FTM is not running on Windows....
View ArticleSeparate families
Is it possible, and easy, to separate families. I have my family and my husbands family on one tree, I would like to separate them, that is have my family on one tree and my husbands side on another....
View ArticleRe: Places Report
This was a feature in the earliest versions of FTM. The place name was broken out by city, county, state, country and you could go into the field and edit (similar to how you can go into a name and...
View ArticleRe: ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: Move Index Options from Tools to Index Button Bar
I like this suggestion. I too toggle back and forth between married names and maiden names on the index list constantly when working with files. It would be nice if they also added an option for women...
View ArticleRe: Places Report
That is exactly what we need again! They could add in additional, customizable fields for things like cemetery names, or hospital names. There should be a way to do this and still have the cool mapping...
View ArticleRe: Separate families
LizIt can be done a couple of ways and is fairly easy. The problems come up when there are people common to both sides of the family. Your cousin marrying your husband’s cousin. The brother of your...
View ArticleRe: Separate families
I think you need to come up with at least 5 valid reasons to be doing this before your try it.As stated, you are going to create a lot of extra work. But if you still insist in doing this, follow the...
View ArticleRe: Places Report
One thing that needs to be thought about when suggesting these enhancements. What will happen to this data when a GEDCOM is made?Until the time that GEDCOM catches up with the real world and ALL of the...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012 - Sync Failure. Now FTM will not open.
BurgessDonnelly,How have you been doing this "Registry checking"?I hope it has not been one of those "Registry Cleaners" or "Speed up my PC" programs, as they do more harm than good.Since other...
View ArticleRe: ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: Move Index Options from Tools to Index Button Bar
All name alternatives including name changes, spelling differences, married names, names used before adoption, stage names, names with and without prefixes (General, Prince, Dr. etc) should be included...
View ArticleRe: Places Report
David Abernathy said:"One thing that needs to be thought about when suggesting these enhancements. What will happen to this data when a GEDCOM is made?"Yes to a small extent the implementation of the...
View ArticleRe: Separate families
Thanks all for your full and informative replies. I will probably do as suggested in the last post, that is do a backup and keep the original tree before splitting into two.Many thanks.
View ArticleRe: FTM 2013
My FTM2005 has descendant charts. I noticed that FTM 2006 did not - at least in the version I have seen. It only had ancestor trees. What versions of FTM since 2005 have descendant trees, please?
View ArticleRe: Separate families
LizYou can create and keep a backup of your file before splitting it. As you work on both new files this backup rapidly becomes obsolete and is of no use. Or are you going to maintain all three files?...
View ArticleRe: Separate families
First, are you sure you want to split your file? There are lots of things you will have to do twice; from resolving places to saving reports to duplicating sources and source media and other media.What...
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