Re: Who can download GEDCOMs from Ancestry.com member Trees?
Gold Bruce,I have it online for the Ancestry AP for my iPad and my Droid cell phone. Don't leave home without it.Russ
View ArticleRe: How to enter no children or no marriage
Here is a little trick I use. In the marriage place field, I enter the location as *never married*. This shows up on all the reports and will transfer in a GEDCOM to other software programs. By putting...
View ArticleRe: SUGGESTIONS FOR ENHANCING FTM 2012 WEB LINKS
I may have missed something in the discussion, but have you tried using the "Archive Web Page" in FTM2012 Websearch window instead of just saving the link? You can create a media type for archived web...
View ArticleRe: TIP: Ways of Identifying People in Your Data Base
After spending a couple of months discovering what DOESN'T transfer well via Gedcom files, I am steering away from using the description fields in Ancestry or FTM2012 which gets merged with the place...
View ArticleRe: Two private trees-can't work between them?
I have several private trees on Ancestry.com and frequently copy a person from one tree to another. On the person's profile page, on the row of drop-down items under the person's photo, look for the...
View ArticleAncestry tree and FTM software developers need to communicate!!!!
I just had to re-download my synced Ancestry.com database to FTM 2012 to resolve a sync corruption issue. (No known reason why it got corrupted but that's another issue). After a quick inspection, it...
View ArticleRe: Facts vs. Notes
The only problem I have encountered in using the description field in Ancestry.com or FTM2012 is that the description field and the place field get merged into a single place field in gedcom transfers...
View ArticleFTM2012 - Source Screen - Jumping cursor issue
I finally finished cleaning up my locations list (all places now reconciled) and merging duplicate people (over 3000 that had to be manually merged because the find duplicates feature doesn't include...
View ArticleRe: TIP: Ways of Identifying People in Your Data Base
It would be far better if FTM supported the NAME.TYPE tag. Which is what I use in my primary DB but does not transfer to FTM.The NSFX tag is a workaround that whould cause problems for times when you...
View ArticleRe: Can't re-link? Seriously?
Too funny! I was having the exact same problem with my mouse. Left button decided to work only when it wanted (more like a cat than a mouse?). After spending a couple of hours trying to figure out what...
View ArticleVersion 9.0 errors/"Maximum Data Limit"
I've been using FTM vers 9.0 since around when it first came out - tried upgrading but liked the setup of the old version. I've known that there have been some corrupt data cells in my file for some...
View ArticleRe: Version 9.0 errors/"Maximum Data Limit"
Your question is a little hard to answer, "unlimited" is hard to define. Any real database including mySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Server can hold a lot of data, yet are limited by disk size. Being able to...
View ArticleRe: SUGGESTIONS FOR ENHANCING FTM 2012 WEB LINKS
Serenity 2001 – comment on archived web pagesNo I have not tried this and I will look into it, but a questionIs the archived Web Page static or dynamic?By static I mean when you go back to look at the...
View ArticleRe: TIP: Ways of Identifying People in Your Data Base
silverfox3280"(except Obama - I'll try to catch him with the next issue of AAP - Ancestors of American Presidents)."He is in the 2009 edition of Gary Boyd Roberts' book
View ArticleRe: TIP: Ways of Identifying People in Your Data Base
Thanks. Shows how much I am behind. Now to see if my library has that one. I don't want to spend $$ just to update from my 10 year old one.
View ArticleRe: How to enter no children or no marriage
I agree with Silverfox."I try to stay clear of saying "no children" as an outright statement because one never knows for sure"Unless one knows first hand, that a person never had children or was never...
View Articletree maker 2012
how do you log deceased with out dates in family tree maker 2012, I have birth date but not death, so family tree is saying 116 years old.Is there away to mark this person dead.
View ArticleRe: Problem with FTM 2012 in Windows 8
To add to this thread their is a ancestry app in the windows store for windows 8 now. Still trying it out to see how it works yet. Does seem to take forever to load my tree.Appears just to be for...
View ArticleRe: Ancestry tree and FTM software developers need to communicate!!!!
tweedlw,When FTM2012 first came out, there were specific items that were identified that were FTM2012 ONLY features. The ToDo List is one of them.I agree with the Location (Place Name Authority) table...
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