Thank you - I had made a quick comparison myself

I often use the alt series of short cuts in FTM 16 when doing heavy data entry

One census page with a lot of children may have as many as 70 facts
OR another example - I have just been sent by email 900 new LAPHAM vital records with more to come

Alt P + U

gives a new family view for an unconnected family or vital record.

But as time goes by connections emerge and I carefully merge individuals to join up the links

Alt P H sorts the children into date order

just standard windows menu practice for people avoiding the mouse for any reason.

One feature I would like to see is the Excel spread sheet like ability to drag the contents of a place field - if it is selected - to children in the same list born in the same place.

Today in FTM 16 I select the birth or death location and use the keys

Ctrl A
Ctrl C
down arrow
Ctrl V
down arrow
Ctrl V
as many times as necessary

BTW when entering children
I look at the images to check the spelling

type forename (surname is auto entered from father)
right arrow
F or M for gender

down arrow
to repeat for the next child

when done I add the dates
c1850 becmes abt.1850 automatically
at the same time checking for my own typos

The date of a census in the spring means that years are often either 9 months or 3 months out
so always “about” . .

the old 1881 data has a different rounding to the other newer indexes on ancestry.

Anyway some women or men age 8 or 9 years for each census isntead of ten
so those dates are always “about” until you get a birth record

lastly I enter the birthplaces using copy paste as above as much as possible

Happy Christmas to all of you

Hugh W

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How can I display the married name of women in the person index?

Will v08 contain an All-In-One Tree?
Is v08 backward compliant?

Please respond to my Email address.

Thanks

TWO SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PLACES SPACE IN FTM 2007

First: The very left hand pane cannot be expanded to the right. Sometimes the Locations are fairly lengthy and can’t be read until they are actually clicked on. How about giving the capability to expand this pane to the right

Second: The magnification Slider Bar resets it self when clicking on each place. It appears to have some knowledge about the size of the upcoming picture and resets itself based on that knowledge. (A good feature by the way.) How about an option that would allow the user to set the slider bar to a desired magnification and have the system leave it their until the user changes it. Note: My suggestion is to implement this as an OPTION because every user would not want this as a hardwired feature. To me it is desirable in some cases, e.g., when I am looking ,say, at a map scaled back to see the entire United States I can click on the next location and gain some general knowledge about where it lies in relation to the last place I clicked on

See my First suggestion in item 5

The statement “Sometimes the Locations — can’t be read until they are actually clicked on.” is not true. You can see them by just hovering the mouse over them. However, I would still like the left hand pane to be able to be stretched to the right, so I won’t have to hover over each place to see the entire place name. And I will be able to scroll down the list and see the details of each one and more quickly find the one I am looking for (Don’t forget there are a lot of places where the town is the same and the county/state is different and the way it is set up now you can’t tell that without hovering or clicking on a place) Bottom line is that the suggestion will save time

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Please could you look at this. I went to look at your blog this morning and this is what is on the main page of your blg, with an entry saying that nothing has been submitted. Kind regards

Where would one post commenets about all the little bugs in FTM 2008. I’m really hoping they will be fixed but don’t see anywhere to let programmers know of an issue they may have missed. Also any word on when the next FTM patch will be out. I have moved back to FTM V16 until next patch/ upgrade.
thanks

I am echoing Herb Carter’s question:

“Also any word on when the next FTM patch will be out”

Using Version 16 of FTM…. why is there a 2,000 individual limit for uploading to my website (listed above). Is there a technical way around this?
Or is FTM 2008 the solution? How many individuals are set as a limit in FTM2008???? I would like to keep all the people together that are currently in my database. As expected, families grow and more data is collected. I have been juggling to eliminate individuals for years because of this limitation.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO MY DILEMMA?
I have been emailing every ‘contact us’ address on websites and never get a satisfactory respose ever.

My ftm 2006 says its up to date but when i come to Ancestry.com to look at my tree I cant do register or any other thing but pedigree which is no help at all. Is there an update for 2006 that i can get. I hate looking at family trees on ancestry cause all I can look at are pedigree.

Copy/Paste function has become Copy/Crash. Can’t C/P in Media from name to description without crashing.

My Sisther eileen32117@webnet.tv and she is now breesnanni@yahoo.com and she side i sand you the o’hanlon/Lewis family tree bout i do’nt gat it beout and i tall her and she side i can’nt gat it sand out to my family at all becayes it will not work for me so i do’nt now want to do

The old Family Tree Maker - I’ve had this since very early used to have a tool called Fix relationship mistakes - Is it still avilable?

Jane

I recently installed ftm 2008. Much to my dismay when a gen report is created it garbles up all the census, etc within the individuals beginning information. How can this be resolved? Do I trash 2008 and go back to my 2004 - it worked great!