Comments on: Family Tree Maker: Free Online Class

By: Lester Stong

Lester Stong — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:38:03 +0000

I have a CD that was from a family member, that has died. I know there is data that I could use. The disk goes back to 2001. What can I do to extract this data?

By: Ford Wilson

Ford Wilson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:19:45 +0000

I’m having a problem with duplicate names. I can not locate where the Information Is located pertaing to making corrections. The major problem Is with names and families not connecting together. This Is what I believe Is causing the duplications.

By: christie bray

christie bray — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:42:19 +0000

I am trying to find info on my late father i have a brother and sister i’ve never meet. the reason being di dont know how to find the. i know there names and my fathers ss number dob and dod i think if i could find an obituary on him 1990 that would really help but i dont know where to go to find it. can any one help? Please

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:02:46 +0000

#253 Bill

Yes, you’re right, it is on ancestry.com.

But I can’t see it on ancestry.com.au. That’s the problem when you have so many ancestry sites.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:31:52 +0000

#249 #250 #252

The archived webinar is now available at ancestry.com under the Learning Center tab.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:08:32 +0000

#249 #250

The last webinar took 3 or 4 weeks at least to be archived.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:08:43 +0000

Tony Re:#248

Per Wikipedia…

[QUOTE]The current version of the specification is GEDCOM 5.5, which was released on 12 January 1996. A subsequent draft GEDCOM 5.5.1[14] specification was issued in 1999, introducing nine new tags, including WWW, EMAIL and FACT, and adding UTF-8 as an approved character encoding. This draft has not been formally approved, but its provisions have been adopted in some part by a number of genealogy programs[15][16][17] and is used by FamilySearch.org[18]
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By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:03:06 +0000

I think it takes a wekk or so for the webinars to get archived for viewing.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:06:52 +0000

Was not able to make the scheduled live webinar. Has the webinar been made available for archival viewing? Cannot find any link to one.

By: Tony Knight

Tony Knight — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:13:30 +0000

My son tells me that gedcom 5.5.1 added Unicode support.

Unless there is some overriding reason not to do so, 2010 needs to be tweaked not to check the gedcom version.

As I said earlier I found the problem with gedcoms from Ancestry/Rootsweb which I assume harvests the original gedcom upload version when exporting, as you get quite a variety, including 5.5.1