Comments on: Family Tree Maker Webinar on September 15th

By: Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:02:10 +0000

#139: Russ, FTM2008,9,10, and suspect 11 all support what you are asking but as follows:

Family View (the main view) only shows the common children of the husband/wife pair being displayed. So if the husband has multiple wives the children displayed are only for that wife unless you attach the child to multiple parents (sometimes done if say a child from say a first spouse was adopted by the second spouse).

Person View (the Facts/Notes alternative view) also includes a “tree view” at the top of the window which shows the parents, spouses, and one child. Here you can toggle between spouses, or select any of the children for the selected individual. The key here as if the husband was selected then the drop down list for children will show all children (independent of spouse) but if the wife was selected then only her children will be displayed.

Give it a try and hopefully it meets your expectations, I use the person view a lot for the exact reason you are stating.

By: Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:48:33 +0000

#140: Lauri, Agree on Charting Companion as it has much better charts and supporting features. Although I use CC, FTM and a couple of other genealogy S/W pkgs since each one does different things better than others. The good news is they are hoping to have an update (expect no cost if like for FTM2008 and 2009) by the end of the month so monitor their support site for the update notices.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:39:08 +0000

How does FTM handle children of unwed parents? Also is there a way to indicate twins, triplets, etc.?

By: Lauri

Lauri — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:29:56 +0000

For the September 15 Webinar.

With the data error report, I think the 2006 version that I had previously allowed me to mark on the record that the error was OK so I wouldn’t see it on the report anywhere. I don’t see this feature in FTM 2011.

Also, in upgrading to Windows 7 and FTM 2011, I lost Charting Companion which I loved for charts. It would be nice if FTM had better charts so I didn’t have to go purchase CC. It was free last time with FTM 2006. thanks.

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:02:38 +0000

Does 2011 allow for the children of mutiple parents to be listed under the common parent. EX one father and five childernb listed under him, wife one 2 chilern listed under husband. Wife 2 3 children listed under just her, husband will still have all 5 listed?

By: Rita

Rita — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:13:54 +0000

1 In the new photo album will we be able to choose the photos to be included in the album as well as not having all of those stat informaiton at the top of the first page.

2 In 2011 did they correct the ongoing issue with accents in some of the reports. Instead of an accent all that you get is some wierd grouping of letters and signs.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:12:49 +0000

The Register Report is based on a format and style used by noted genealogical journals for years.

People who do not have children are only shown as children of their parents in the parent’s generation and are not carried forward.

In short- there is nothing to “fix” as it is working as planned.

That being said- Ancestry could design a few new report formats on their own that don’t depend on the traditional report formats.

By: Martin Jorgensen

Martin Jorgensen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:21:25 +0000

When I create a Descendant Report (Genealogy Reports:Register Report), the names of relatives who do not have children are omitted from the list of persons of their generation. This causes hurt feelings in people who are not able to have children. I do not see why these people are left out. I keep hoping each upgrade will fix this, but I am always disappointed. Will version 2011 finally add these names to their generation’s listing?

By: Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:24:38 +0000

#104: Wendell, not sure what you are seeing but I filed a bug report on one issue that was driving me crazy with the index. If you add the mother first before adding the father and you have set the option to list by married name (e.g. you should get: SMITH, Mary Jane HENDRICKSON (where Hendrickson is the maiden name)) you will find the name gets tossed what seems like randomly in the list. Don’t have FTM2011 to check this yet but the fix is easy on a per person basis. Basically when you add the husband it fails to trigger an update of the wife’s database entry.

Anyway the trick is to just modify the wife’s name and then set it back to it’s original value and all is good. I would go to Mary Jane HENDRICKSON and add an “a” to the end of her name and then click another field before removing it, then the index is correct.

Also occasionally I get a name that just won’t go in the right place after having the program up for a while, in these cases a restart of FTM usually does the trick. Hope these help you.

By: Mary Bowen

Mary Bowen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:09:09 +0000

My problem with 2011 is i can not use copy and paste function. Ftm 2011 wants to web clip everything highlighted. This does not work for me.

In 2010 the census index data that i have been using for years, i can highlight,copy and paste the Name & Age data for the whole family group into personal notes for each individual. So every family member has the whole family listed in their notes section.

If you use the web clipping it puts this info into a paragraph which is too hard to see at a glance who’s who. I have had 100′s of comments of my trees on line from individuals how they really like how my notes are put together. Besides that , relatives can understand it better.

Please fix this so we can copy and paste into notes,from web search in FTM, without using web clipping. I have been using FTM versions for 12 years, not a NOVICE.