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Question: Is there a good query language in any tools where you can query your family tree in a more advanced way?

"Give me all people where you have descendants born before 1900 and I have no source connected to it from the Census 1900" 

Thanks to reader Karen Jaquish for pointing out that I had removed too many people from my search.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSgC6Kh-LVk&feature=share

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Question: Is there a good query language in any tools where you can query your family tree in a more advanced way?

"Give me all people where you have descendants born before 1900 and I have no source connected to it from the Census 1900"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZebmg83s0&feature=share

Hi Russ.

Hi Russ....I was watching the discussion in DearMyrtle's HOA from early last week when you guys went 24 hours during the indexing event about the ways that images and sources are attached in different database programs.  

I am curious in FTM how you and others in the community use the Fact called "Census".  When I merge a census record from Ancestry.com into my FTM database it usually creates different facts for the different pieces of information found in the census.  So I end up with a fact for "Residence", "Birth", "Race", "Sex", etc rather than one for "Census".

What is the advantage to including the "Census" Fact?

I am using FTM 2014 on Windows 8.

Thank you!

An Upgrade for Evidentia

An Upgrade for Evidentia

Originally shared by ****

Evidentia 2.2 has been released!  Upgrade now at http://evidentiasoftware.com/evidentia-upgrade/

Evidentia is now FamilySearch Certified!

http://evidentiasoftware.com/evidentia-upgrade

Just sharing to this community what the DearMYRTLE Genealogy Communityhelped support Sunday into Monday (Eastern...

Just sharing to this community what the DearMYRTLE Genealogy Community helped support Sunday into Monday (Eastern Time).

Many thanks to ALL who helped make these numbers possible and to DearMYRTLE for hosting the GeneaSleepover for 244 (oops) 24 hours.

It was a blast

Russ

Originally shared by Pat Richley-Erickson

THANKS to Cousin Russ for hanging in there for the full 244 hours. WAIT, I meant 24 hours.  :::giggle:::

http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2014/07/final-numbers-familysearch-worldwide.html

Some final numbers !!!

Some final numbers !!!

Wow !!

Thank you for contributing to this effort.

Russ

Originally shared by FamilySearch Indexing

Thank you to everyone who joined in the worldwide indexing event! You set a record for the greatest number of indexing participants in a single day. A total of 66,511 volunteers participated and more than 5.7 million records were indexed! Share this badge with your friends to let them know you made history.

We want to hear about your experience! Submit your stories to fsindexing@familysearch.org.

Congratulations for ALL who helped make this 66,417 number possible.

Congratulations for ALL who helped make this 66,417 number possible. Thank you for your support of the DearMYRTLE Community, FamilySearch.org and those family researchers who follow us. An incredible number.

Cousin Russ

Originally shared by Jodi Spade Roessler

Official numbers to be released tomorrow!

https://www.facebook.com/familysearch/photos/gm.736179556448700/10152171679746039/?type=1&theater

Please consider joining the DearMYRTLE Genealogy Community in thisFamilySearch Indexing project.

Please consider joining the DearMYRTLE Genealogy Community in this FamilySearch Indexing project. 

https://plus.google.com/communities/104382659430904043232

Originally shared by FamilySearch Indexing

One batch is all it takes to make a difference. We are only 9 days away from making history with our worldwide indexing event! Click this link to join and invite your friends! http://goo.gl/XJvVvt

Changes Coming in October 2014 to Family Tree Maker

Originally shared by Russ Worthington

Changes Coming in October 2014 to Family Tree Maker
I saw the following on Facebook: "We’re making updates that may impact your Family Tree Maker experience. Starting in October 2014, Ancestry Web Search within Family Tree Maker software will have reduced functionality or may not be supported by Microsoft Wi...

Hi Russ

Hi Russ,
I'm entering a person in my file who was never married and had no children.  I saw a blog post you did back in May 2010 about how to enter both the "never married" and "no descendants" information using FTM 2010.  Is this method still the best way to handle it, or is there a "new & improved" way with FTM 2014?

Thanks,
Karen

Russ Worthington If I remember correctly you live in New Jersey.

Russ Worthington If I remember correctly you live in New Jersey. I would like to know how to find a researcher to look for a will/probate record in New Jersey (probably Trenton).  Should I contact a Genealogy Society, a Historical Society or maybe I should even post this to a different community.  Any advice?  Thanks.

Hi +Cousin Russ , I have had a very frustrating day.

Hi +Cousin Russ , I have had a very frustrating day. Am pretty green at using both the synch feature and Macs. I quickly wrote the following post and wondered if you, or any other community members can point out the blindingly obvious mistakes I must be making :) 
Many thanks

Hey Cousin Russ, could you explain the differences between ResidenceFacts and Address Facts in FTM?

Hey Cousin Russ, could you explain the differences between Residence Facts and Address Facts in FTM? Should I enter both for each census record? I appreciate the help!

Question: Best practice gather information about a village or a city inFTM

Question: Best practice gather information about a village or a city in FTM

Have started to try out Evidentia and then you have something called subject which I understand can be a person, village or whatever you would like to gather information about.

If I e.g. find information about a house that more people live in. My understanding is that I in FTM create a fact Residency and that is connected to a person and I set the timeperiod that person lives in the house e.g.
Date 3 apr 1905 - 20 nov 1905 
Location: Kräbäck, Österfärnebo, Sweden

If I have another person that lives in the same period I can link this fact to that person

I can also decide to append information about the village Kräbäck....  to this fact

But if I have people that live during a different timeperiod I need to create more facts and need to add information about Kräbäck to all persons fact.... 

Is that correct or do you have a better way of gather information about a village during a timeperiod.....

Hey Cousin Russ , when you use Evidentia to record information from acensus record, do you record a relationship...

Hey Cousin Russ , when you use Evidentia to record information from a census record, do you record a relationship claim between mother and child? For example, the census will often spell out the relationship of a child to the head of household (the father for example), but it doesn't really specify whether the mother listed is the birth mother of the child.  I know in the 1930 census, it lists age of first marriage but that doesn't necessarily mean it was to that spouse. Thoughts?