Comments on: Family Tree Maker: Choosing a Home Person

By: Hazel Clack

Hazel Clack — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:19:06 +0000

#26 & #27…I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. ANCESTRY SHOULD FIX THE ISSUES WITH THE FTM PROGRAMS THEY HAVE OUT.,,AND FORGET ABOUT ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES THAT ONE IS TOLD TO ‘TURN OFF’ WHEN A PROBLEM IS REPORTED. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT EXPORTED YOUR DATA TO THE rtf FILE IN A WHILE, YOU’RE IN FOR A SURPRISE. THE DATA CAN NOT BE EDITED, THERE ARE ‘CELLS’ THAT HAS DATA IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN EXCEL CELL. THE FORMAT IS HORRIBLE FOR ANY TYPE OF REPORT THAT IS EXPORTED. WAS TOLD THERE IS A 3RD PARTY INVOLVED AND ANCESTRY HAS BEEN UNABLE TO GET THEM TO FIX IT. I FOR ONE AM VERY DISSATISIFIED WITH ANCESTRY PRODUCTS AND WILL NEVER PURCHASE ANOTHER ONE!!!!

By: Tony Knight

Tony Knight — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:00:03 +0000

For Mac users unhappy with the very poor implementation of FTM for Mac, I had an email this morning to say that RootsMagic are looking at producing a Mac version

By: Lucille N.York

Lucille N.York — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:13:39 +0000

Andy#26 i,m with you onthem coming out with another FTMuntil they work on the bugs in 2011. I went back to 2010.
Lucy

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:32:20 +0000

Tyler Re: # 25

Rather than a list of the new Belles and Whistles, I’d *MUCH* rather have a very detailed list of all the problems they have fixed in FTM2011.

Then I might be able to know if I want FTM2012.

By: Tyler Rasmussen

Tyler Rasmussen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:33:08 +0000

Presumably FTM 2012 is only 6 months away from release (for the last 4 years, FTM has been released in August). After half a year of development, do you suppose sometime soon we could have an article highlighting features to look forward to upcoming version?

Will the SDK / plug-in vision ever be recovered?

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:10:12 +0000

Emma Jean Re:#23

The Social Security Death Index shows this:

FELIX, EDUARD
Born: 30 Mar 1954
Died: 08 Nov 2008 (
Age:54
Last Address of Record: 10009 (New York, New York, NY)
Issued by: Puerto Rico
Soc. Sec. #: 584-64-7915

Is this your father?

By: emmajean felix

emmajean felix — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:51:09 +0000

I LOVE THIS WEB SITE BUT I HAVE BEN LOOKING FOR SOME OF MY FATHER FAMILY HE PASS AWAY ON NOV 08,2008 AND I WOULUD REALLY LOVE TO FINE THAT PART OF MY FAMILY IF THERES ANYWAY U CAN HELP ME PLZ EMAIL ME……YOURS TURELY EMMAJEAN FELIX

By: RICHARD

RICHARD — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:25:59 +0000

I LOOK FOR A PERSON AND GIVE EXACT NAMES,DATES AND PLACE.I HIT SEARCH AND PEOPLE FROM DIFFERANT STATES AND NAMES POP UP TO VIEW AND THE MESSAGE IS BE MORE SPECIFIC.I DON’T GET IT.CAN YOU HELP.AND ONE MORE THING.(VERY IMPORTANT)I’M LOOKING FOR INFO ON MY WIFE.I HAVE HER PARENTS WHO WERN’T REALLY MARRIED BUT ARE ON THE BIRTH CERT.SHE WAS BORN IN A FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS HOME AND THE FRIEND RAISED HER FROM BIRTH AS THE MOTHER,BUT NEVER LEGALLY ADOPTED HER.HOW DO I LOOK THIS UP.IM NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO POST THIS,IF NOT PLEASE TELL ME WHERE.DICKCONLEYSR@GMAIL.COM.THANK YOU

By: Anne C.

Anne C. — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:55:37 +0000

I have question for you…My Mother has a huge family 10 children in it..All the Seilheimers had big families My great parents 5 times over had 15 children..
Well the Seilheimer is 1 family tree..We are all related….The problem I am running into is: They all name their sons have their brothers, brother inlaws, fathers, etc..
I found it easier to use the wives maiden name…When I can find it..
But what I like to see on here is a separate box for maiden name & married name for the female side.
I hate using maiden name with dash for married names…I try leaving off the married name but I run into problems when the woman in the family name their daughters after themselves…So can you please have someone help me out put in maiden name boxes & married name boxes… Thank you, Anne

By: John Donaldson

John Donaldson — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:50:59 +0000

# 17 C Kintrup

Essentially you enter each line in the normal fashion and when you have cousins marrying you add the spouse even although that person already exists in their line.

Then form the People Workspace go to Person>Merge Two Specific Individuals

You will find that FTM will do the merge and you will have everything as you expect.

Of course you will now see dual relationships as with inter-marriages you create two ways to relate a person.

FTM handles all of this as well.

If you are not sure create a small test database and experiment

John D