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Hi This is a known issue with 14.3 as covered in the thread under members section. Warwick is working on it and I hope a new update will be released real soon now. Although it crashes the main items of info are actually saved. I have found that the Cause info is not saved. Now that the public beta o...

Hi again, I tried to write a reply a few days ago but the website requires a login (even though I was logged in) and deleted my post. Anyway, I still think you are not using the Source correctly. My understanding of the source is it is a reference to something that contains information but does not ...

Hi Don’t worry about your English. It is fine. I’m sure you are over complicating the multi page source. Most sources are many pages & volumes. The reference to a particular page is handled in the Event that links to the source. For the example you gave where the page refers to the parents and grand...

Hi, I'm not sure what you expect from Hierarchical Source references but iFamily will list all the Citations for a particular source which lets you know all Events that call up a particular Source: An example is: Sources Report for Richman_Holman_family Created on Monday 3-Jun-2024 at 05:50 PM Sourc...

Hi The way I view it is there are two parts to Sources. The first part is the source such as: 1851 Census 1901 Census UK Birth records Family Bible Manchester Evening Newspaper When you record an event such as a Census entry you would have a Citation (ref to particular page of a Census book) to a pa...

i, Not exactly sure what you are trying to do but once a Source Citation is added (the exact reference in a Source - e.g Page xx from the 1911 Census) you can make that citation the Active source and Clone it to other people. Do do this, Select an event (e.g. Census entry) and right click on it. Sel...

Hi, I can help here. You need to create an event for the date of the birth certificates with the type of Residence (from the drop down list. This is a RESI event in the GEDCOM file when exported. You can have as many of these events as you like for each person. I usually add the info based on the ad...

Hi,

I don't think so. iFamily treats a place as a string of text rather than a structure such as:

House name or Number
Street
Town
County
Post code
Country

or equivalent for other countries

Nigel

Hi,

I've not found a way to have a date format other than dd MMM YYYY.

The event Date dialogue allows you to correct badly formatted dates from a GEDCOM import.

Nigel

Hi Cathleen, Thanks for the clarification. It would be quite a problem working from the gedcom export unless you could import into another app that could report as you want. Hopefully Warwick is monitoring this and can provide some suggestions as to how to generate an extract of the database. As you...

Hi Cathleen, When you say export do you mean a GEDCOM file export or are you using the Report .. Descendants... menu option. If you mean the former then an export of the whole database would give you what you want other than it being a gedcom format file - Cause of death has an Event type CAUS. If y...

Hi Cathleen I believe the only way to do what you want is to disconnect the person from the current parent and then add as new child to the new parent. You need to have appropriate dates of birth for new parent and offspring so that the person appears in the offered ‘prospective children’. Hope that...

Hi

This is covered in the following post giving a little more detail.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=243&p=1113&hilit=S ... base#p1113

Cheers

Nigel

Hi Firstly, make a copy of your database. Then using the copy database, disconnect people connected to the root person you want to have as the basis of the new tree that you don’t want to include. This is usually the parents of the partner of the root. Then, select File…Export… Export Gedcom…All peo...

Hi, Events for Occupation do use the OCCU format though I am not sure it is correct with the TYPE field being used for the actual occupation. _OCTI seems to be generated (in my exports at least) where a title has been added in the Person Tab. If I create a Title (Sir, Baron etc) as an event using TI...

Hi, Just tested removing picture with v2.13.1 and it worked OK However, when I tried to crop an image so that the full image was shown in the picture pane it crashed. Crash report sent to Warwick with details of what caused it so I hope a fix will be easy but it may not be until the next main releas...

By the latest do you mean v2.13.0?

Also which macOS are you using?

This will help Warwick identify the problem

Nigel

Kathy, I'm sorry you are still having issues with iFamily & macOS Monterey. I am convinced something must have gone wrong with the transfer of data from your old machine to your new one when you initially set it up as I have had very few issues with Monterey or iFamily v 2.12.0 Did you ever locate t...

I have been looking at the GEDCOM export/import from iFamily and it used GEDCOM 5.5 standard which is quite old. The latest GEDCOM org spec is 5.5.5 though 5.5.1 is often used (Not sure of the changes). FamilySearch have issued GEDCOM 7.x which is not an update but a new standard - which is a bit co...

Hi, Minor correction to previous post. The iFamilyData folder is un the User area by default not the Documents folder - though it can be moved using the move option. I have mine in the iCloud area so that it can be shared between machines. Still need to locate that folder and find the contents as th...

Hi Strange that the finder search does not find any .ftksql files. Do you have an iFamilyData folder in “Documents”? Or any where on the computer? The Backup files are generated when you do a database merge (and possibly other times) as a way to protect your data. Bottom line for me is if there are ...

Hi, It can be disabled in System Preferences as a system wide change. It is under Keyboard - Text Input You can search for Spell Check in System Preferences to find the right sub section if the above does not lead you to the right place in the version of macOS you are using. I don't think there is a...

Hi Kathy, I assume you mean you are on macOS 12.4 with iFamily for Mac v 2.12.0 I don't know why the application does not launch when you click on it - It usually bounces and puts up a Menu bar with the options to load a family tree if it hasn't found one - or a requester to check for any update. Wh...

Hi Kathy When you say you moved the .dmg file to Applications I’m hoping you mean you double clicked on the dog file in finder and then moved the iFamily program into the applications folder but from your description I guess you did move the iFamily_V2.12.0.dmg file to applications Find the dmg file...

Hi, Tried Ancestor and Ancestor by Generation and they seem OK. Tried Descendant report again and managed to create a Single line repot of the same (wrong) format as you had. Then, it would not generate the multiline report again so I believe the options are not being correctly read. Also, the gener...

Hi, Just tested on other report selections to try and get a single line report without Source, Comments or Notes but it just generated the same report as before. So, it seems not to respect the selected options - but yours defaulted to a different report set. Odd. I will try other things to see if t...

Hi, Just tested on M! Mac with Monterey & Intel mac with Mojave to get a different result from yours. My reports are multi line with Notes and Comments but have other issues: Such as: Each generation is called Root Person's xG Grandfather (odd as root was female) Also, Each persons name is . Name ra...

Hi Kathy The application you need to use is the v2.12.0 Leaf in the applications folder. It sounds to me as if that application runs but has not loaded your iFamily database file. As you have moved to a new computer it is possible that the database file is not in the correct location. Where is your ...

Hi Looks like we have to wait for the update as although the Sep date shows in the data entry box it doesn’t go into the database. I’d suggest that until the update is available dates in September should be put in as’ aft 31 Aug yyyy’ where yyyy is the year and the correct date entered in the notes ...

Hi Looks like we have to wait for the update as although the Sep date shows in the data entry box it doesn’t go into the database. I’d suggest that until the update is available dates in September should be put in as’ aft 31 Aug yyyy’ where yyyy is the year and the correct date entered in the notes ...