Någon mer som har stött på detta problem. Den nya funktionen med synkningen är både bra och dålig. Efter att ha synkat mitt träd kom många redan inmatade personer tillbaka som "okända". Många timmars arbete med att mata in både avlidna och nulevande personer i mitt släktträd var fullständigt tillintetgjorda. Nu får jag börja om från början att fylla i de tomma uppgifterna. Mycket frustrerande!
1. I am finding that I have no matches in the FTB when I am entering names from my early medieval ascendants. (?) Could it be that they are not being entered correctly?
2. What is the correct way to add the first and last names of my Danish ascendants: 'last name change'; considering both patronymical and matronymical factors? This s a two part question: because it is relative to 'Smart Matches', the FBT database (both uploading to the FBT website, and as a cross-reference component for members); it is important to correctly register each individual under their name at that given time in history. 15th century and earlier.
At present: I am stating each individuals full name in the 'First Name(s):' coloumn. When I was listing 'Male' with surname in the 'Last Name' coloumn and the same for the wife (with the wife attaining the husband's last name): I was receiving no smart matches. When entering the childrens names I have relied on what the researches and references state.
I don't know about FTB, but I know that online, no two people enter names like that the same way.
Thank you for replying Eric. In the case below, if I enter Bege Bugge's maiden name Bugge into the 'Maiden Name:' section: then FTB automatically assigns her, her husband's surname 'Strangesen (Bild)' or 'Strangesen' if I drop the (Bild). The surname of Strange Esgesen Bild is in question in relation to its use with his son Ebbe as the author indicates that it may have be used by use of bracketing (Bild): hence Ebbe Strangesen (Bild).
The integrity of assigning 'Strangesen (Bild)' or ''Strangesen' as the married name to Bege Bugge is highly contentious. And this goes back to my argument: at what point on a historical basis does the wife use or not use the husband's surname and its transferrance to both the wife and his children. If the use of brackets is a question mark against the use of 'Bild' for two of their children: do we drop the surname 'Bild' for Strange Ebbesen Strangesen and Niels Ebbesen Strangesen and so on down the lineage? In other words: do we state what has been documented and what the sources are stating for specific names, or do we conform to a genealogy software programme? If I place 'Strangesen' in the surname column then Bege Bugge will be assigned the surname 'Strangesen'
If we look at monarchs and royal dignity: the wife does not automatically take on the husband's name (in any sense) and are known by their own birth-name, or their titled name. Should this rule be applied to medieval names?
If you look at church books in Sweden the women keept their maiden names until late 1800s. To use the husbands surname for these women is totaly wrong and will just make it hard to research. Since people died young their widow/widower did remarrie and to use a husbands surname will just confuse others that have not noticed new marriges.
If you had an Anna Andersdotter she was always refered to as Anna Andersdotter all her life no matter of how many times she remarried. She was daughter of Anders hence Andersdotter. Her brother Nils Andersson was son of Anders and hence Andersson.
For nobles the naming can be a bit trickier. Early they may have had names like above and are often nowadays refered to as I.E Jöns Gustavsson (sparre över blad).The text inside the brackets are often a description of their seal or coat of arms but can also be their Family name such as (Bonde). According to some scolors you shall distinguish family name and seal/coat of arms by family name starting with a Upper case and seal/coat of arms starting with a Lower case.
This will not be handled easily in FTB and it is hard to list families by their names.
Forename: Jöns
Surname: Gustavsson (sparre över blad)
His father:
Forename: Gustav
Surname: Larsson (sparre över blad)
I.E. The Bonde family have hundreds of members and in lists sorted by surname they will be mixed with others.
To make it even harder, at some time a noble family could start to use the seal/coat of arms description as their family name.
If you look at church books in Sweden the women keept their maiden names until late 1800s. To use the husbands surname for these women is totaly wrong and will just make it hard to research. Since people died young their widow/widower did remarrie and to use a husbands surname will just confuse others that have not noticed new marriges.
If you had an Anna Andersdotter she was always refered to as Anna Andersdotter all her life no matter of how many times she remarried. She was daughter of Anders hence Andersdotter. Her brother Nils Andersson was son of Anders and hence Andersson.
For nobles the naming can be a bit trickier. Early they may have had names like above and are often nowadays refered to as I.E Jöns Gustavsson (sparre över blad).The text inside the brackets are often a description of their seal or coat of arms but can also be their Family name such as (Bonde). According to some scolors you shall distinguish family name and seal/coat of arms by family name starting with a Upper case and seal/coat of arms starting with a Lower case.
This will not be handled easily in FTB and it is hard to list families by their names.
Forename: Jöns
Surname: Gustavsson (sparre över blad)
His father:
Forename: Gustav
Surname: Larsson (sparre över blad)
I.E. The Bonde family have hundreds of members and in lists sorted by surname they will be mixed with others.
To make it even harder, at some time a noble family could start to use the seal/coat of arms description as their family name.
Thank you for replying Anders. Therefore the firm emphasis is to retain the name spelling specific to the reference source and to include the relevant () inclusion. The 'Bugge' have their coat of arms/crest.
I'm not sure about every day people. I am not sure how much the names of common people were similar to nobility, or if they even really had common names. I suspect that if a man was well known in the town as Bob the Blacksmith, but no other evidence of a last name being given, it's likely that if he married a girl named Alice, she would just go by something like Alice the Blacksmith's wife. If she came from a family which had an established given last name, she might possibly keep that name. As far as English Royalty and Nobility goes, last names weren't really used up until the Tudors at the earliest. It's common to think of Henry II as Henry II Plantagenet, but neither he, nor anyone else would have considered that proper at the time. In other words, he did not effectively have a last name. Henry VIII did come from a family who had at least for several generations, been known as having Tudor as a last name. His proper name after becoming King would have been King Henry VIII Tudor. As is really annoying, and wrong, many people here put it King Henry Tudor VIII. Don't do that. It's wrong, and in historical monarchical context, it doesn't make sense. I'm not sure if this has helped much, but I hope it has. As far as his marrages, I don't usually include the Tudor last name for his wives. In other words, I just use Catherine of Aragon, or Anne Bolyne as his wives' names even after marriage since those are the names they are traditionally known by and the way they would be listed in any college history course. Such as if I were marking down the geneology of the German royal family, I would use it in the same way It would be taught in history class in high school. Kaiser Wilhelm II is never translated into English. Never. He's never called Emperor, he's never called William. However, several generations back to kings who were not as well known will be translated into English, like King William, King Frederick, etc. Interesting now that I think about it and am on this tangent, Nicholas II, will always be referred to as Tsar, where the Emperor of Austria, who technically callled the German Title "Kaiser," as did Wilhelm, is always referred to as Emperor. French nobility and Royalty is almost always Anglisized.
And remember, you always have the ability to delete a married name, just go to the married name under edit, and delete it.
I'm not sure about every day people. I am not sure how much the names of common people were similar to nobility, or if they even really had common names. I suspect that if a man was well known in the town as Bob the Blacksmith, but no other evidence of a last name being given, it's likely that if he married a girl named Alice, she would just go by something like Alice the Blacksmith's wife. If she came from a family which had an established given last name, she might possibly keep that name. As far as English Royalty and Nobility goes, last names weren't really used up until the Tudors at the earliest. It's common to think of Henry II as Henry II Plantagenet, but neither he, nor anyone else would have considered that proper at the time. In other words, he did not effectively have a last name. Henry VIII did come from a family who had at least for several generations, been known as having Tudor as a last name. His proper name after becoming King would have been King Henry VIII Tudor. As is really annoying, and wrong, many people here put it King Henry Tudor VIII. Don't do that. It's wrong, and in historical monarchical context, it doesn't make sense. I'm not sure if this has helped much, but I hope it has. As far as his marrages, I don't usually include the Tudor last name for his wives. In other words, I just use Catherine of Aragon, or Anne Bolyne as his wives' names even after marriage since those are the names they are traditionally known by and the way they would be listed in any college history course. Such as if I were marking down the geneology of the German royal family, I would use it in the same way It would be taught in history class in high school. Kaiser Wilhelm II is never translated into English. Never. He's never called Emperor, he's never called William. However, several generations back to kings who were not as well known will be translated into English, like King William, King Frederick, etc. Interesting now that I think about it and am on this tangent, Nicholas II, will always be referred to as Tsar, where the Emperor of Austria, who technically callled the German Title "Kaiser," as did Wilhelm, is always referred to as Emperor. French nobility and Royalty is almost always Anglisized.
And remember, you always have the ability to delete a married name, just go to the married name under edit, and delete it.
Thank you Eric, you have made it clearer to understand. In that the name must be kept retrospective of the time in which they lived, rather than some name that has been conditioned for historical context and purpose. I have been using the following web site as a source. Sometimes it is not easy to select the correct name. It is a history major at the same time, and you learn more by reading well documented information.
I have been using the function to import GEDCOM files to my existing FTB as I share information with several people. Now I have about 148 600 records in my tree and suddenly FTB refuses to import even small (10-20 people) GEDCOM files. It is ok to import the same GEDCOM to an empty tree or a smaller tree,, so the GEDCOM file is OK but my big tree refuses to import it.
I just wonder when it becomes impossible to add records to mig big tree.
My father in law has forgotten his password and cannot access the site. he has tried to use the forgotten password on the login page but it asks for a mobile number and he does not have one. how can he reset his password??
I am confused...I paid $40 for the annual service, but when I keep being asked for payment to view more information. How is this an annual service, when I was only able to use it for one day?!
It's not that their system doesn't work, it's because they are only after your $$$$$$$$$.......All these so called 'Helpful' find our ancestor sites are a load of B-S....They try to sucker people from the get go by saying they have FREE trials for how many ever days and then they ask for your credit card details.....Here's a hint for all the peeps out there, if they have to ask for credit card details for FREE TRIALS, then they are only there to RIP YOU OFF!
Probably not a frequently asked question, but one that came up. I was trying to find how many living relatives were in my FTB database. Couldn't find out how. Even in advanced search, the "Deceased" checkbox is not included. All I can do is filter cards that don't have a death date... but that doesn't mean the individual is living, just that I don't know the date of death.
You can try making a search by going to Edit > Search.
In the menu under "Facts", choose type as - "Death" and condition as - fact exists.
This should get you what you were searching for!
Thanks for a clever workaround -- it even gave me the total in a little box at the bottom of the search window, a field I hadn't paid much attention to.
Also found it in in the menu line (top of screen for FTB) as "Family Site - New" > "Family Statistics - New" which gave nice pie graphs of living/dead among many other interesting graphs. Maybe that one showed up when I installed V6.0.0.6538
I'm glad to hear it worked out for you, and we thank you for writing the other work-around that you found. It will help is help others in the future as well.
I have installed a new version, but I have problem with sync - "Syncing the Project has failed". Log report says: "Site ID is missing. Sync Failed". I had no sync problem with ver. 6. Please help me asap. Thanks. Martin
I've sent all of you private emails with different instructions.
Seems like some of you might have diffenet sync problems than others.
I would like to state that we are working hard on solving all these syncing problems and it is treated with a lot of care so you wouldn't have to experience such inconvenience.
We would also like to apologize for the long answering delay as we have a lot of complaints due to the new release of the family tree builder.
Hopefully all of this will be fixed soon and you'll be working again on your trees as usual.
I was aked to be a Beta testor for Version 7 of FTB (Prior to Release) and with the acception of just a few glitches everything workd great..even the Sync for my Large tree of over 15,900 people. Once I down lloaded the Release Version (built 7100) I kept experiencing major errors in the Sync process and also in Smart matching.
The sync process took a very long time and seemed to be uploading my WHOLE Tree every time.. 1.3337 GB. Prior to this release it only uploaded around 3-5 MB of changes. I have reported this major error nearly 3 weeks ago now and have not recieved a fix to it yet.. I am getting very frustrated at the help level I should be getting as a Premium Plus member. Subsuquent installations of newer Builds have not fixed the problems and no one is telling me what is being done. I would love to get the Beta version back t osee if that still works as it did.
Another main problem is when I click on Matches for an individual..I get the message "The family tree where you synced this project has been deleted from your family site" this happens for everyone with the match icon????
My Tree on my web site HAS Not been deleted! What is going on here?
Come on Guys, there are a lot of upset people with this new version and the word "Support" seems to be lost to you at this point.
I still believe that MH and FTB is the best out there..but not with this Version.
I am also having the same problem. why hasn't anyone posted an answer yet?!
I didn't have any problems prior to updating to the new version, and of course, that's when I need to add to my tree!
not only that but I'm also supposed to be able to edit my tree on the website now too but yet somehow it's not letting me access that feature anywhere...all I can do is view the "profiles" from the info I already have...
I am not sure my problem is just with the new version of FTB - as I have just started using MH. However, I do have a tree in FTB7 and a tree in My Heritage online - and I cannot sync them. Nor can I find any directions to follow when it doesn't work.
Snycing is necessary in order to research/save finds, correct?
