Be Cautious About Designating Step-Child
I would be very cautious about adding more than one parent to a person.To do so has impacts on various reports - some unexpected. Descendant reports of the "blood" parent will show the step-child, and...
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New problem during sync a window pops up with a list of people and events that are in conflict. I corrected some and they were removed from the list. This worked for awhile but then the list...
View ArticleRe: Multiple Relationships - 30th GGrandmother vs 2nd cousin 25x removed.
I second that. The problem is even worse because the ancestors of that grandparent who shows up as a cousin will become parents/grandparents of the spouse of ___ cousin and just gets worse and worse as...
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One major resource I use for events that I enter in my ACOM tree are newspaper articles. I have added over 4000 newspaper references into my ACOM tree and have manually added them as source citations....
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No way to do it except manually with the current version of FTM. As you've already noted, this information is not synchronized. Unfortunately, it's one of many such examples. I recommend writing in and...
View ArticleRe: Multiple Relationships - 30th GGrandmother vs 2nd cousin 25x removed.
Yup, please report and complain.
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I am confused.There is currently no specific date field at the citation level in FTM. The date is normally entered in the "citation detail" entry box. (or at the Source level for publication date.) I...
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Copy attached of the "Create Source Citation" page from ancestry tree.
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Attached are three screenshots. One shows the input screen for a citation in my AMT, another what the Source Citation screen looks like after it has been saved in my AMT and the third one shows on the...
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It would appear to me that FTM has 3 choices:1) Add Date Field to FTM citation2) Delete Date Field from Ancestry.com (ugh)3) Map data in Date field in ancestry to export to FTM Citation detail box.I...
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If #3 is done, then it needs to be translated both ways. Best to have something consistent though, i.e., date field in both or neither.GEDCOM does not have a separate date field for sources, and I...
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Marco is correct regarding GEDCOM.A SOURCE and its corresponding SOURCE_PUBLICATION_FACTS are the correct places for dates of publication of a newspaper article. From a GEDCOM view a SOURCE_CITATION is...
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@silverfox32801) Not a correct solution. A citation should not contain a date this is a job for the source and it has a date. It is possible that AMT is missusing the term citation in that it is asking...
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I have heard back from FTM Tech Support and according to them the issue does not reside in my source citation, instead the issue is that I did not enter a date in the source itself. As such, the only...
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Marco,I disagree completely with you and agree that a source does specifically include its publication date.
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I don't agree with that tech support person. That would discard the system's current flexibility--and one that Ancestry.com already employs repeatedly. Consider their state census collections. In all...
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Marco,To further my thought is that you are confusing "written citation" as prescribed by Chicago, Evidence and others with data storage and collection.For example: You pick up a paper with obituaries...
View ArticleRe: Newbie question - deleting branches
I'm using FTM 2009. Can this be done in this version or do I need to upgrade to FTM 12?
View ArticleRe: Multiple Relationships - 30th GGrandmother vs 2nd cousin 25x removed.
Yes, exactly, Jeff! All the "grandparent of the wife of the 6th cousin" relationships instead of "12th-great-grandparent" is completely confusing, and as you said, it makes it easy to skip over...
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