Russ a question about locations and FTM. I feel that you are a big fan of using good locations in your family tree which I also are. Feels like beeing able to visit a house someone has lived in gives an additional dimension.
I have FTM 2014 and try to use locations in the best way. But I am not a big fan of the windows client as I feel the user interface sometimes make it faster to work using the ancester.com web interface....:
What I think I have seen is that if I upload a tree from windows version of FTM where I have resolved all the locations and then download this tree to a new client it feels that I loose the resolved status of names ==> If I have a name then it is ok but if I have a description added to it (like name when the fact took place, more detailed name etc....) then I loose that the "first part" of the location is resolved.......
Question: Have you seen this and do you have a workaround....
I have an example under the title FTM problem on page
http://minancestry.blogspot.se/2013/12/locations-and-location-based-genealogy.html
Magnus Sälgö
ReplyDeleteSorry, I am not sure what the issue is. You said "But I am not a big fan of the windows client as I feel the user interface sometimes make it faster to work using the ancester.com web interface"
I don't understand that.
I have blogged about Place Names several times both typed and I think I did a Video Blog post.
What is your goal?
I use the Place Name Authority within #FTM2014. The biggest reason is the Mapping FEATURES. The reports, the migration paths, and the ability to use the Bing Mapping features that are part of FTM2014. Please remember that the Place Name Authority is from Bing Maps.
Ancestry.com does NOT use the same place names as FTM2014 does. They are close, but not always the same. For example, you may see County and Township within the Place name from Ancestry. The Place Workspace in FTM2014 and Bing Maps do NOT use those terms.
Also, FTM2014 DOES have a way to handle historical place names. I have blogged about that.
Not sure how GEDCOM fits into the conversation / problem. The places in a GEDCOM will be the same as you would have in your genealogy database on export.
Please be a little clearer as to what the issue is.
Thank you,
Russ
Magnus Sälgö
ReplyDeleteThere is NO place called Town Hall, New Jersey, USA
The correct way to record a "Town Hall" would be the same as the way I have demonstrated a Church or a Cemetery.
Town Hall, [ City ], [ County ], New Jersey, USA
Where the "Town Hall" is in the upper window of the Resolve Place Name window.
the
[ City ], [ County ], New Jersey, USA
Would be in the lower.
FTM2014 does an awesome job of Backing Up.
Two ways
File, Back Up, and have every thing checked
or
Tools, Compact File, select the Back Up option, then Back the file up as before. I do this ALL of the time, over several computers, since Version 3.4 of Family Tree Maker, 15 years ago. Haven't lost a file.
ALSO
If you use the Ancestry Member Tree, it ALSO is a good back up. You can, and I have blogged about this, do a Restore of your file from your Ancestry Member Tree with FTM2014.
I do very little work in my Ancestry Member Tree. REASON: I do NOT and will NOT use an Ancestry.com Citation in my file. I ALWAYS convert that Citation into the Template Feature of Family Tree Maker.
The FTM2014 Web Search / Web Merge feature is AWESOME, BUT I do clean up after a Web Merge. Again, I have blogged about that.
You certainly can do what ever you want, but I can only share how I use this AWESOME program.
Russ
Do you have any video/blog about using the web search from FTM? I am not a big friend of it. I feel it is slow compared to just using the web interface maybe I need a faster PC ;-)
ReplyDeleteMagnus Sälgö
ReplyDeleteSorry, can't help you with your non-standard use of the Family Tree Maker program. So as you wish.
Remember ONE Computer FTM file to ONE Ancestry Member Tree. Each computer can have more than one file and it's associated Ancestry Member Tree. What you are proposing will not work successfully.
Perhaps you have the wrong program. But the normal big three genealogy database management programs, Legacy Family Tree, Roots Magic, and Family Tree Maker are PC or Mac based.
If you are a "cloud generation" why not just use an Ancestry Member Tree. It's ALL in the cloud.
FTM2014 and FTMM-3 do NOT sync with one another. They can open each other's file, but NOT sync. AND if you have an Ancestry Member Tree linked to that file, you WILL have problems.
I can help with the normal / standard way of using this program, but not what you are proposing. Have no clue what the results will be. BUT I can tell you that you WILL have problems.
Russ
Magnus Sälgö
ReplyDeleteHave you been to my blog?
ftmuser.blogspot.com
I have shown and talked about the Web Search / Web Merge feature many times
Faster, may be, but I want my data to be far cleaner than the merging in an Ancestry Member Tree. I will NOT use any Citation created by Ancestry.com. I convert them ALL to the Template feature in FTM2014. But I have said that before.
Russ
Magnus Sälgö
ReplyDeleteNo. I do NOT use my "own" citations. I use the Template feature within Family Tree Maker.
Russ
Magnus Sälgö
ReplyDeleteYour last statement is exactly why I spend so much time in the Places Workspace. I take the time, especially for Historical Place Names, to learn about those place name changes, and boundary Changes over time.
To be able to visit a Town or City repository and have a pretty accurate list of people whose records I might want to look up on that visit. The report might be at the City / Town Level, but that is broken down to Address, Church, School, Cemetery listings. Same for the county level.
Migration paths are also very helpful.
Good luck,
Russ