Family Tree Maker: Creating a Calendar

What is the advantage, or is there one to maintaining both Ancestry and Family Tree Maker? It seems I spend a great deal of time inputing the same data twice: once in Ancestry and once in FTM. Is there any chance in the future that these two programs will speak to one another better? Sounds like I should just let FTM go?

# 2 Vivianne

SP1 Update FTM 2009 from the FTM 2009 knowledge base

Question
What items were addressed and/or included in the Family Tree Maker 2009 Software Update?

Answer
In addition to numerous defect and performance fixes, the FTM 2009 software update includes the following new features and enhancements:

Book Building
You can once again create books compiled from charts, reports, and text documents. The “Genealogy Book” option can be found under “Books” in the “Publish Collection” view. If you had a book in a previous version of Family Tree Maker, a template of that book will be imported with your tree and appear as a saved book.

Data Entry Flow
You can now easily flow through the entry of a family in the “People, Family” view using the keyboard. Simply press Ctrl+Enter to navigate to, and add or edit, the next person in the family.

Source Templates
When entering a source, users can continue to use our traditional source functionality or they can use a template that follows one of the “QuickCheck” models in the book Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

To use the traditional model simply ignore the new “Source template” field at the top of the “Add Source” dialog and leave it blank.
Enter the source type or a keyword into the “Source template” field (such as “US Census”, or “Birth Certificate”) and select a template from the list that appears.
OR
Click the More… button next to the “Source template” field and then select the source group, category, and template.

Calendar Report
The “Calendar Report” is back! You can find it in the “Other” type in the “Publish, Collection” view. It includes options for setting colors and including birthdays and/or anniversaries.

Custom Report Export
The custom report will now allow you to export the report to a “columned” format when exported to CSV so that it can be brought into a spreadsheet program for sorting.

Extended Family Chart
The new “Extended Family Chart” shows the people in your tree aligned horizontally by generation. You can specify how many ancestor and descendant generations to include. This chart is not a replacement for the “All-in-one” chart although it can display everyone in your tree. We plan to add the “All-in-one” chart in a future release.

Chart/Report Label Options
From most chart & reports, select any fact in the “Items to Include” dialog and click the fact options button (below the list of facts). It now includes options for how you want that fact’s label to appear in your chart or report.

John D

if you are referring o the word ”mullatta ” when turning to the past it is imporant to use terms of those days or take probable chance of getting nowhere.and i’m not so sure that term is distastfull to some as in naacp

Megan # 6

This can be a bit confusing the three categories refer to the focus person not the home person.

So select yourself as the focus person.

Now you will find it should work OK

John D

# 8 Bob

If you are talking about the SP1 patch (update) for FTM either

Go to
http://www.familytreemaker.com/Support/Patch_2009.aspx

or

Alternatively you can in FTM 2009 go to Help>Check for Updates

John D

David # 10

See the link on # 9

John D

It is great to have the calendar back. I have two requests regarding the calendar.

First, I have two family members with leap day issues. One chose leap day for a wedding, the second was born on leap day. I would guess that the testing of the calendar took place in 2008, a leap year, and the problem was probably not seen, but in 2009, which is not a leap year, including these two persons and their special dates causes the calendar to freeze. When I change the dates to February 28 or March 1, the calendar works. It would be great to see the program fix these and default to February 28 or March 1 in non-leap years rather than freeze and require a workaround which must be undone in the leap year.

The second issue is I cannot find a way to eliminate wedding anniversaries of divorced couples. Even excluding the non-blood related divorcee does not exclude the anniversary. Please consider adding an option to exclude these anniversaries which some folks may not want to remember. My workaround is to exclude both people, but that excludes the divorced family member’s birthday.

Thanks for putting the calendar back in and thanks for considering these updates.

Jim

Hi again!!

Edit: I updated to version 18.0.0.305, and I found calendar report.

I love FTM!!