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HI,

This has been discussed before and the answer seemed to be &#39No&#39.

Try this link for more info.

http://www.ifamilyforleopard.com/forums ... te+formats

Nigel

Hi Clare, If you mean to get rid of the whole tree and start again, the answer is Yes. In Finder, go to your home folder and in the iFamilyData folder there will be a file ending in .FtkSql The first part of that file name will be the one you used for your family tree. Just delete that file (move to...

Hi Geraldo, Those errors look like they are from the Royals92 data file. When you open iFamily and get the royal family tree does the title bar on iFamily say Royal92.FtkSql? Or something else. If it is something else, I guess the database has become corrupt. Try a finder search for any file with th...

Hi Sam (?) Not too sure which sort of tree you are trying to produce and how much you want of everyone. If you go to the lowest person in the tree (most recent birth) and make an Ancestors chart you can set a number of the options to include many generations (from the top of the window options) and ...

Hi,

It seems that the only control you have is to include or exclude the Births & Deaths of Parents & Children.

NIGEL

Hi again. I have quoted my previous reply at the end of this message but it really does depend on what you are trying to generate the report for and of. The Filtered People report does only generate the list based on First Name so you are not doing anything wrong (as far as I can tell). It would req...

Hi, Which reports are you trying to generate as there are quite a few? If you want a complete list of the database, the easiest way is to use the People... Index menu option and then generate the CSV file. When you import this into Numbers or Excel you can then sort based on the column for Surname e...

Hi,
Not sure about the picture part of your question.

Also, not sure how you are searching for places.

I use Events... Event Places... menu item and put the place I am searching for. This will return Birth, Death and Marriage places that match.

Are you doing something else?

Nigel

Hi,

The way I would do this is to put your &#39best guess&#39 in the normal date field and use the Comment field for the extra information.

You can then run a report on which people have entries in the comment field to help with progressing the &#39uncertainties&#39.

Hope that helps,

Nigel

Hi Liz, First thing to check is that you are exporting the data from FTM into a .ged file. Assuming it is called Family.ged look in Windows Explorer or in Finder (on the Mac) to see what the size of the file is. This is generally a fairly small file of 10s or 100s of kilobytes. If it is not zero, ha...

Hi Ian, On the person page there is a field next to the name labelled 'Description (e.g. Title or Occupation)'. You can enter 'Sir' in here to have it displayed on the charts but not as 'Sir David Fell'. I am not sure if there is any other way to include it other than just typing &...

HI, Re-tested on Snow Leopard and as expected it worked perfectly - no idea what I did yesterday. I added an associated person to the Focal person and he/she appeared next to the Focal box as is reasonable. When I deleted the association, the Associated person became the highlighted person (turned p...

Hi Warwick, I just tested on my Leopard version (PowerPC) and it behaved correctly giving the second dialogue box. I will re-test on on the Snow Leopard Laptop install and let you know if it is OK now - I've got a cold right now and it may be affecting my brain! A cancel button would be logical b...

Hi, OK, first I did not read the subject correctly and tested for adding a child or parent. With adding an associated person the Close button does work if a person is selected but not if there is no person to associate. The search filter does work with any part of the persons name beginning with the...

Hi,

It seems to work for me - v 2.511

In what way is it not working?

Can you describe what you were trying to do (Age of person to be added and age of the parent)?

Thanks,


Nigel

Hi Bogbunny, Timeline integration sounds useful but you mentioned that it had helped you find some anomalies in your family history. Did you know that iFamily has a 'Data inconsistency' report built in that you can set to report on things like: Birth Dates (Mother <15 or >45, Father <15 or >70...

HI, I tend to use the before option and enter the last day of the quarter. For example if the record is in q2 of 1890 I enter bef 30 Jun 1890. This could be any time before that date but it is the best information to hand. As the record is the Quarter in which the birth is registered it may be that ...

Hi,

You can Make an event the Current event and then &#39Clone Current Event&#39 for other prople.

There is a limitation on the types of event that can be the active ones and I do not believe they update later but I find it very useful when entering Census data for a family.

Nigel

OK, Found it.

Follow this link
http://www.ifamilyforleopard.com/forums ... com+export

and go to the message from Keith from the 2nd July 2007.

Hope that is what you wanted.

Nigel

Hi, I think you can also use the GEDCOM export ... Focal Person and All relatives menu option but you have to break the link between the person and spouse at the starting point. At least I think that is how it works - I'm sure Keith wrote something on it - probably in the manual section. As Warwi...

Hi Jay,

If you look about halfway down the screen there are plus and minus buttons.

If you click on the Plus you can then enter the Source details in the set of boxes to fill in as required.

Not clicking on the Plus does indeed overwrite a current source reference.

Hope this helps.

Nigel

Hi Clive, You could add a note into the Comments field that this information has been added/ changed on a certain date by user xxx. You can then find those entries with a 'People ... Comments... ' menu selection setting the option to Comments not null. Not the easiest of ways and it does assum...

Hi Puppo, To quote Keith from an earlier post: "You can add a PlaceHolder picture as the first picture in a person's picture gallery using the button labelled " Add PlaceHolder" . A PlaceHolder picture will not be displayed on the Ancestors or Descendants diagrams. " This will stop a picture bein...

Hi, You enter the names of the Mother and Father on the Diagram in the ghost outline boxes. If you click in one it will put the Surname (if Male) and the gender and will allow you to enter the Given names. One the person has been entered you can add the extra details in the person or family cards at...

Hi Lee, Thanks for the extra info. Much clearer - it is an area I have never filled in for my sources which is why I did not recognise the term. This is one for Warwick but it sounds like it is a free format field where you would like to have the ability to pick from previous entries. Do you create ...

Hi Lee, Not too sure what you are after here but iFamily is pretty good for sources afaik. You can generate a list of defined sources such as 1891 Census, UK Birth records, Family Bible etc to pick from when you have a Source Citation that needs to refer to a specific page in, say, the Family Bible....

Hi Gerard, The Title or Occupation option in the Filtered People list refers to the Description field in the Person pane rather than the Occupation event in the event list (afaik at least). I ran a test and it did find the entry I made. Never been too sure of this field and what it should (could) be...

Hi Pete,

I think what you need is already in place.

On the Picture pane click on the Add Placeholder button at the bottom of the window.

This inserts a blank to prevent a picture from being displayed.

Hope that is what you wanted.

Nigel

My search with google only identified gedcom to csv converters. The real problem is to define the standard that the csv file holds the data and to try to map that into the relationships. Hence the GEDCOM standard. If the csv file was a list of names then I would imagine that it would be possible to ...

Trying to provide an answer to Question 5. Do you mean a Report or a Chart? For a Chart I would actually generate an Ancestors chart from the Target individual and turn off the options for Siblings and Spouse's ancestors. That should take you back to the head of the family. You could try somethin...