Comments on: Family Tree Maker: Find and Replace Tool

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:59:19 +0000

Wilma Re:#14

My advice is to put everything into one big tree as it is always easier to split off a branch for printing or whatever than it is to combine trees and have to deal with duplicate people, images, sources, etc.

That way you can also make sure you are entering a person only once and not wind up with a bunch of duplicates in your tree.

By: Wilma Smith

Wilma Smith — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:34:32 +0000

The question from Loretta prompts me to ask about a similar situation: When first starting out on this project I didn’t realize how involved it would become. I began by entering both my father’s family and my mother’s family. This becomes very involved. Also, if I wanted to print only my father’s family, how could I do that? Is it best to enter each family in a separate tree? If so, how can I move one family to its own tree? How have others treated this subject?

By: Loretta

Loretta — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:13:40 +0000

Thearticle helped. But my quwstion is a little different-I have been involved with this ancestry search for several years, there fore have made many mistakes. How do I combine two or three trees (all the same family? And how do I delete one? Any help is appreciated. Thank you?

By: Harriet Wells

Harriet Wells — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:31:26 +0000

I am new to Ancestry.com. MyFamily.com is where I started.
Now, I need to know how to delete an individual in Ancestry.com.
I am not a computer whiz.
Thank you.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:15:19 +0000

Great tip! I was just wondering how to do this the other day. I also laughed because your ancestor you used in your example has the same name as one of my husband’s. LOL. Thanks for the post.

By: BEE

BEE — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:56:24 +0000

To answer the last #40 question on the previous post: “The directions are confusing – – can’t find the tabs that they’re talking about on the Ancestry.com site” – that is because the post was about FAMILY TREE MAKER, the purchased software, not the ancestry.com site.
Hopefully, anyone reading this blog will finally get it that FAMILY TREE MAKER is the topic, and won’t continue to confuse it with ancestry.com.

By: Diana Hadden

Diana Hadden — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:52:05 +0000

Jeff,

There was a public beta, and genealogy technology guru Tamura Jones has published several very informative articles on Family Tree Maker 2012.

Start with this one:
http://www.tamurajones.net/WhatIsNewInFamilyTreeMaker2012.xhtml

Diana.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:17:17 +0000

I use this search all the time to find people who live in a county or state, since the “places” lists most by city, county and state. (Unless you have a better way to do this…)

By: Tana L. Pedersen

Tana L. Pedersen — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:46:28 +0000

#4 Jeff
I will be talking about all the new features available in Family Tree Maker 2012 in a few weeks. Please check back then and ask any questions you have.

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:42:42 +0000

On my system, these types of blog entries are in the “Articles About Family Tree Maker” section.

Regards,