I recently upgraded to Version 5 of FTB and then subsequent to that to Version 5.0.0.1168. In moving to the 1168 version a 'New User Guide' was supposedly downloaded. However in viewing the 'New User Guide' it appears to be the old Version 4 one as no new features, such as the new Chart Options, are mentioned. Please advise when a corrected version will be available for download. Thank you.
You are correct that he user guide is the same as it was for version 4.0. We are working on this for future releases. In the meantime, please refer to our Help section at:
Investigating in the FTB Photos folder I am surprised to see that so many duplicate photos have been created.
It seems that they are created at differing sizes, these sizes have been appended in the filename.
I realise that a thumbnail may be necessary so at the most would only expect to see two images of each but in many instances there are SIX copies of each even though it is only used once!
Can anyone please tell me how I can determine which images are actually used by the program when uploading so that I can delete the remainder and clean up my system?
Is there a way to set-up or edit a Source eg; a Birth certificate so that it shows as a Primary definition on all Birth Certs within my Database, rather than having to go thru the whole listings and change each one etc.
Do you want all births of all individuals in your tree to have a birth certificate source? Is it the same source, or different sources - one for each birth?
Uri. I have a database of some 1400 persons and I would like to edit those who have a particular Source by changing that Source Citation's confidence to a certain level. In this case ensure that their Birth Certificate Source is changed to the confidence level of Primary.
Also how can I move some items that have Death Notes from the Notes to "Cause of Death"
We are using the GEDCOM standard (the industry genealogy standard of how to encode genealogical information) about sources and citation. I also never understood why the confidence is defined on a citation and not on the source itself. So yes, you will need to change the confidence of each citation for the source. One thing that can help you is that from the Manage Sources window (View > Sources in the main menu) you can select a source and then click the Source Usage button to see and edit all the citation that reference this source.
Moving death notes to cause of death. Again. I will have to be done manually. You can use the Search functionality to find these people though. Click Search (either from Edit menu, or from the little button with the magnifying glass about the list of names on the left, or the Search button above the Family Tree view) and select the following criteria:
Cause of death: Is empty
Advanced > Notes > Fact note : Is not empty
This will list all individuals in your tree without a cause of death and have a fact note (not necessarily a note on the death fact, but it will narrow your list down)
I am new to both myheritage.com and FTB. I created a small tree on myheritage.com. I also created another tree using FTB (because it won't publish to the one I created on the website). So now I have two trees on myheritage.com.
When viewing myself in the tree created on myheritage.com, it recognized that the profile I'm viewing is me. When viewing myself (on myheritage.com) in the tree created by FTB and published to myheritage.com, it wants me to invite myself to the website. I have the contact email in the FTB profile for myself set to the same as my site admin email.
Why does it not recognize that I'm in the family tree published from FTB? This seems very basic?
Another question... Why can't the software and website co-exist where changes in FTB show up on the website, and change made in the website show up in FTB? It seems like they're two distinctly different software. It just feels like a disaster waiting to happen.
1) I see that you have 2 identical trees in your site. It's a good practice to only have one tree. Multiple trees are good when these are separate trees of different branches of the family or of totally different families.
The reason that your profile in the web tree is identified as you and your profile in the FTB tree is not, is that only one profile in the entire site can be associated with a particular member (you). You need to decide which method of editing you wish to proceed with. Since your tree is still relatively small, I would recommend to remove the FTB tree and to continue editing on the web. This will allow other family members to contribute easily as well.
2) You are right that changes made on the website to the FTB tree do not show up back in FTB tree. This is something that we are working on the for the next version of FTB.
Thank you for responding. Everything you said makes sense. I agree I probably should stick to the web version, so that family can make changes. I look forward to FTB 6.0 or whatever version makes two-way synchronization work. The data should ultimately reside "in the cloud" (on the website) and the FTB software should modify that data, not a local database (unless a user wants it to only be local of course).
1. When my cousin starts adding members to my family tree ("The Stadlers"), will it remain "The Stadlers" family tree, or will it center on his family ("The Urbaneks")? My branch of the tree is very small, and naming the entire thing after us seems a little silly.
2. What is the best practice for naming a family tree, when the family name quickly becomes very subjective?
3. Can my cousin add 250 people to his family tree, and link up to mine, for a family tree w/ a max 500 people?
I'm replying because I have the same basic questions you do. I titled my family tree "My Family" because I am not going to segregate to one side of the family. Calling it the "McRae Tree" seems illogical when I intend to have my wife's family, my mom's family, etc in it. Good questions!
I think the general rules of thumb with naming a family tree are:
If you are the sole editor of the family tree and are building it for recording historical information about a certain linage, then you can safely name it based on the surname of the top ancestor.
If you are creating a family tree where multiple members can edit and expand, you can name it after several of the main family names, e.g., "McRae - Williamson - Kelly - ...."
If this is a family tree when many members share information, add photos and greet each other on birthdays and so on, I found it better, as you did, to just call the site "My Family" or "Our Family" or something of that nature so that everyone will feel welcome and not a marginal part of the family.
Is possible to change the English date format written in Czech (e.g., 7. pro, 1989) to the Czech offical format (e.g., 7. 12. 1989 or 7. prosince 1989)? Transcription table as follows:
January 7, 1989 -> 7. ledna 1989 or 7. 1. 1989
February 7, 1989 -> 7. února 1989 or 7. 2. 1989
March 7, 1989 -> 7. března 1989 or 7. 3. 1989
April 7, 1989 -> 7. dubna 1989 or 7. 4. 1989
May 7, 1989 -> 7. května 1989 or 7. 5. 1989
Juny 7, 1989 -> 7. června 1989 or 7. 6. 1989
July 7, 1989 -> 7. července 1989 or 7. 7. 1989
August 7, 1989 -> 7. srpna 1989 or 7. 8. 1989
September 7, 1989 -> 7. září 1989 or 7. 9. 1989
October 7, 1989 -> 7. října 1989 or 7. 10. 1989
November 7, 1989 -> 7. listopadu 1989 or 7. 11. 1989
December 7, 1989 -> 7. prosince 1989 or 7. 12. 1989
Can you please send me an example showing where you see these dates in English appear in your family tree? Is the language of FTB set to Czech and still the dates appear in English?
It seems as if this new version of FTB displays the married name of women if no maiden name is entered. I'd like to never display the married name. How can I do this?
