I'll give it a try and let you all know what happens! Six people on th eFTM tech support list told me that no only will FTM not import double dates, it won't accept them either. He said he tried one and it wouldn't work. If the default is cut off 1752? The manual alone is enough to convince me that those folks aren't geniuses. I'll see what I can do with it. Meanwhile, what do people think of Legacy? Dora --- Bobby & Sue Bates <[email protected]> wrote: > >Which program has what setting? > >Dora< > > That would be the FTM program, Dora. If you open > the program and click on 'File' you're given a menu > which includes 'Preferences'. > Scroll down to 'Preferences' and it will give you > another menu which will include 'Dates & Measures'. > Click on that and you are given the options of dates > in the format of Jan. 1, 2002 or 1 Jan. 2002 and an > option for setting a cutoff year for double dates. > It also informs me that the normal year for that is > 1752. You may also edit your abbreviations for > 'before', 'about' and 'in' at this location. > Additionally, in this section you may also set > measurements to either English or Metric system. > Hope that helps some! > Best, > SueB > > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com