I was working on my family tree and I came upon a problem.
My sister had a child before she was married for whom we have no information on his father and when he was 4, she married and had 2 other children. I entered the children and then said she was divorced and put her ex-husbands name into the system and then it gave the same father to all three children. The only way to disconnect him from the one child is to delete the entry, which then deletes him from the other two children.
How do I have him for the two children and not for the one who is not her ex-husbands child.
In my pictures, I would like to tag/associate names for people not in my family tree, like friends or neighbours, celebrities etc. It is possible to tag them in Web interface, but not in FTB I guess. Is there any way ?
I was compiling a tree on Family Tree Builder and the whole tree has gone on to My Heritage.com. How can I get it back please, as I haven't completed it.
You can keep building your tree in Family Tree Builder,
each time you make a change, you can publish the updated tree to your Family Site.
Your Site Members will be able to see the tree grow, but they will not be able to edit it.
If you want to remove the tree from the Family Site, go to the Family Tree > Manage Trees page, and remove it. I recommend that you leave it there - when you publish your tree it is shared with your family, and you will also get Smart Matches with other published trees.
I Have added nearly 150 pictures over the last three months. I was lucky enough to have pictures for most of my ancestors. Today when I went to work on the program, all pictures were gone. If you click on photos where the pictures were, there is a drawing of an old camera, in place of my picture. All the pictures were obtained from Picasa. I did note that if I click on Publish and go to my web site the pictures are still showing there. I tried backing up to an older version but still the pictures were gone. Does any one have any idea what could have happened? If I try to add pictures again and then publish, won't I have duplicate pictures on my web site?
Open Family Tree Builder, then the File > Manage Projects menu.
can you find your project with the photos in there?
If you can, delete the other project, and remove the relevant tree from your Family Site (the site currently has two trees, you can see that in the Family Tree > Manage Trees page)
If you can't find your project with the photos in Family Tree Builder,
I have created a huge tree without any LastName. Now I have learned the correct LastName and need to apply a mass change and provide everyone in tree the same LastName information. How can I do that ?
Although there is no formal way to change many profiles at once, what you can do is the following:
You can go into your tree in Family Tree Builder and into Edit > Export To Excel and choose to export a list of people. You can then edit the list, and then re-import it.
> How to make the updating of the tree created before, by importing a new GEDCOM, and without losing photographs?
> During The export of a tree towards GEDCOM, why photographs are not exported and, therefore abolished.
> what resolutions to regulate this anomaly?
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I'm running Windows Vista and I can't get the software to run on my PC, since it stops in the middle of installation bringing this message: Error0 installating book report. Any idea if Vista is supported, if so, what can I do to proceed with installation?
how can I enter children from a married woman and a different father, so that the child appears under the married parents name but still shows the other father as the biological father....if you follow..
Create the natural family (mother, father and child)
now add another spouse to the mother.
go back to the child, right click on his card, and choose Parents > Attach parents
choose: Existing parents are natural, new parents are adopting
and choose the mother and husband from the list.
Keep in mind, that even though the child will be displayed under both parents in Family Tree Builder, it will not be displayed under both parents online.
We will add this option to the Family Site as well soon.
I am a child from unmarried parents and tried to do as you just stated, though for some reason it lists me as my own step brother. Also when I am not listed as an adoptive son of my step parents it lists my two sets of half brothers as being step brothers. This doesnt make sense to me as they technically have no relation to each other.
there should be a way of "unlinking" two parents. By default the parents appear to be married. you can later enter a "divorce" event and their link becomes a dotted line. so basically we need something like that dotted divorce line, an "unmarried" option.
A few days ago, I began to notice that I no longer had matches for some people. I had previously had matches for 70 people, and now had matches for only 5.
My Smart Match folder showed all the files were still there (you have a SmartMatching.xml file that works like an index, and one file for each person you have matches on, they get created when you close the software). After uninstalling, reinstalling, restoring from backup, etc. I finally figured out what the problem was. Fortunately, I had recently gotten a new computer, so I went back to the old one, got the SmartMatching.xml file from the old installation, dropped it in the folder on the new machine, and my matches came back. For people I've added since getting this computer, I will have to delete them and add them again, which restores the match. Thankfully, there aren't many of them.
While I don't see anything on the forums about this at the moment, a Google search suggests it was discussed here a while back, but has dropped off. A Google search result came up with a link into the Myheritage forums with a preview that says, "Switching to Smart Match by pressing the Matches icon causes the name list to collapse", which sounds a little like what I had happen here. The original forum post is no longer available, and it isn't in Google Cache.
So... What causes this and how do I keep it from happening? It is interesting to note that I never had this problem until I started publishing portions of my family tree to the MyHeritage web site.
Indeed there is a folder called SmartMatching that contains various file about Smart Matches in your family tree. This information is "cached" on your computer so that even if you are not connected to the Internet, you can still view your Smart Matches. If this information has been removed (e.g., when switching computer) you can simply recreate this information by clicking the Update Now button in the Smart Matches screen. When Family Tree Builder closes this project, it will recache the infromation it got from the server in the files of this folder.
