> -----Original Message----- > From: jef@konluc.dk [SMTP:jef@konluc.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 11:47 AM > To: Cumberland Family Mailbox > Subject: Comments to CTW 2.24 win > > After testing several since 1986 different versions from dos to > windows I am very > happy with this program, also the language conversion is impressive. > But still I have some suggestions to modifications/improvements: > > PHOTOS:It is necessary to store photofiles in the same directory as > the database, I would prefer having the option to use a seaparate > subdirectory. [Søren Henning Dalgaard] My photos are storred in the "C:\fotoarkiv\" directory. Just open the Config - database - Other menue and You can specify the Image directory for a particulare database. Sorry I can't remember the probbere menu names as I'am using the danish translation. > Naming standard appearance should be windows and not restricted to 8 > characters. > Report of scanned images should also include full file names. [Søren Henning Dalgaard] I will second that request. > In order to maintain a uniform appearance, it should be possible to > set a standard picture size. > > Once photos registered, they should be available in the "Family Photo > Album" - I only > have the Photo Album program as a shareware and I am not sure whether > or not this > is in fact already available ? > > NOTES: The use of symbols should be replaced with a system like > foot-notes in word, or alphanumeric reference like 1) 2) etc. > > Danish participants: Hint to Danish generalogy "freaks" - feel free to > contact me, I have a good experience from research at: Rigsarkivet, > Landsarkivet and Koebenhavns Raadhus. > > Jens Fleinert > Christianshusvej 169 > DK 2970 Hoersholm > Phone/fax: +45 45 86 11 62 - Mob: +45 20 44 78 34 E-mail jef@konluc.dk > << File: Fleinert, Jens.vcf >> > Søren Henning Dalgaard Danmarks Natur- og Lægevidenskabelige Bibliotek Tlf.: 3139 6523 mailto:shd@dnlb.dk

Hi Ira & others, In doing my genealogical research and preparing my familystories I regularly have need to know who in my database lived at a certain moment in history. For instance: who of the Slings went through World War II? And who the Octogenearian War between Holland and Spain? Maybe there is a possibility to add an "individual list" where you can get a list of the people who were alive in a certain year or in a certain range of years. I guess this can't be too difficult, because the ancestral and descendant timelines uses the same sort of technique. But there you can't show any person in the database. I hope this makes any sense. Sincerely, Hubert Slings -- ==================================== drs. H.G. Slings drs. J.I.J. Slings-de Vries De Rikking 102 8332 CH Steenwijk The Netherlands 0521-515051 slings@wxs.nl http://home.wxs.nl/~slings/home.html ====================================

After testing several since 1986 different versions from dos to windows I am very happy with this program, also the language conversion is impressive. But still I have some suggestions to modifications/improvements: PHOTOS:It is necessary to store photofiles in the same directory as the database, I would prefer having the option to use a seaparate subdirectory. Naming standard appearance should be windows and not restricted to 8 characters. Report of scanned images should also include full file names. In order to maintain a uniform appearance, it should be possible to set a standard picture size. Once photos registered, they should be available in the "Family Photo Album" - I only have the Photo Album program as a shareware and I am not sure whether or not this is in fact already available ? NOTES: The use of symbols should be replaced with a system like foot-notes in word, or alphanumeric reference like 1) 2) etc. Danish participants: Hint to Danish generalogy "freaks" - feel free to contact me, I have a good experience from research at: Rigsarkivet, Landsarkivet and Koebenhavns Raadhus. Jens Fleinert Christianshusvej 169 DK 2970 Hoersholm Phone/fax: +45 45 86 11 62 - Mob: +45 20 44 78 34 E-mail jef@konluc.dk

I agree - that must be the way to do it. PS: Is the Danish version still done by Erik H N? I have a few comments/questions that I might as well discuss directly with the translater. PPS: Never a problem with backup either. I backup to diskette, alternating between two diskettes and overwriting each time. Jens (Mik) Brammer, Holte, Denmark ---------- > Fra: Ira J. Lund <ira.lund@cf-software.com> > I've got some good users who are willing to share > their translation talents because of the love for genealogy and CFT-Win. > Thanks to all of them.

I have installed CFT WIN 32 bit in my hard disk (C:) and always backup to my Iomega Zip drive (D:). Only one time ( the first time that I backed up after installing CFT WIN) did I receive the message "Backup exists. Do you want to overwrite it?". It backs up, overwriting my previously backup file about two out of three times. Then it gives me an error message. If I then delete the file from my Zip disk, the backup is successful on subsequent attempts. I also have Norton Anti virus (ver. 4.0), Quarterdeck's CleenSweep, and Helix's Nuts & Bolts running on Windows 95. Chuck Edgerly René Hasekamp wrote: > This also happens on my computer occasionally: Sometimes I receive blank > messages from the CFT Win Mailing list. > > Now that I am sending a message anyway, I would like to report that I never > had any problems with the backup facility. > > I have installed CFT Win on my ZIP drive, and on exit I always make a > backup on my Hard disk (C:). The program then warns me that the backup > file exists already and asks me politely to confirm if want to overwrite > it. > I use the 32 bit version of CFT Win. > > René Hasekamp > ---------- > > Van: Jens Erik (Mik) Brammer <brammer@ddf.dk> > > Aan: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Onderwerp: Sv: Unwanted Advertisements AND Replies to Such > > Datum: zondag 18 januari 1998 12:23 > > > > The contents part of your message was empty. Maybe a problem on my > > installation only - but who knows. > > Jens (Mik) Brammer, Holte, Denmark. > > > > ---------- > > > Fra: George W. Durman <sgtgeorg@concentric.net> > > > Til: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > > > Emne: Unwanted Advertisements AND Replies to Such > > > Dato: 16. januar 1998 06:30 > > >

This also happens on my computer occasionally: Sometimes I receive blank messages from the CFT Win Mailing list. Now that I am sending a message anyway, I would like to report that I never had any problems with the backup facility. I have installed CFT Win on my ZIP drive, and on exit I always make a backup on my Hard disk (C:). The program then warns me that the backup file exists already and asks me politely to confirm if want to overwrite it. I use the 32 bit version of CFT Win. René Hasekamp ---------- > Van: Jens Erik (Mik) Brammer <brammer@ddf.dk> > Aan: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > Onderwerp: Sv: Unwanted Advertisements AND Replies to Such > Datum: zondag 18 januari 1998 12:23 > > The contents part of your message was empty. Maybe a problem on my > installation only - but who knows. > Jens (Mik) Brammer, Holte, Denmark. > > ---------- > > Fra: George W. Durman <sgtgeorg@concentric.net> > > Til: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Emne: Unwanted Advertisements AND Replies to Such > > Dato: 16. januar 1998 06:30 > >

Ira and All, My message had NOTHING to do with translation services. Perhaps I should have mentioned that the sites I gave are for FREE on-line computerized translations. In the AltaVista case it can handle up to a fairly good size paragraph and in a second you've got the text to/from French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, or German. As a test I put a letter I had gotten from the Hessian State Archives on my scanner, copied the OCR-generated text into AltaVista, and, presto, I had the English translation. It was so good that it gave me a vital statistic I had overlooked in reading the original German! FREE! The AltaVista site, again: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate Jon At 01:58 PM 1/18/98 +0000, you wrote: >>Yesterday on the RESEARCH-HOW-TO list there was an exchange of msgs about >>on-line translation sites which I thought I'd pass on to the CFT-WIN list. > >Hiring (and paying) for translation services can be expensive. All CFT-Win >translations are done by CFT-Win users. Thus they are done by someone who >is interested and knows genealogy and likes CFT-Win. I don't think I would >have it any other way. I've got some good users who are willing to share >their translation talents because of the love for genealogy and CFT-Win. >Thanks to all of them. > >Ira > ______________________________ | | | EMQUAD International, Ltd. | | P.O. Box 60 | | Great Neck, NY 11022 | | - | | emquad@worldnet.att.net | | http://home.att.net/~emquad | | - | | Consulting Division | | Publishing Division | |______________________________|

>Yesterday on the RESEARCH-HOW-TO list there was an exchange of msgs about >on-line translation sites which I thought I'd pass on to the CFT-WIN list. Hiring (and paying) for translation services can be expensive. All CFT-Win translations are done by CFT-Win users. Thus they are done by someone who is interested and knows genealogy and likes CFT-Win. I don't think I would have it any other way. I've got some good users who are willing to share their translation talents because of the love for genealogy and CFT-Win. Thanks to all of them. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

The contents part of your message was empty. Maybe a problem on my installation only - but who knows. Jens (Mik) Brammer, Holte, Denmark. ---------- > Fra: George W. Durman <sgtgeorg@concentric.net> > Til: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > Emne: Unwanted Advertisements AND Replies to Such > Dato: 16. januar 1998 06:30 >

Hello all on the list, I am looking for "The Gedcom Standard Release 4.0". Does any of you have the documentation - or know where to find it? If any of you have it - will you send me a mail and I will reply to one of you asking you to send it as an attachment (avoiding that a lot of you send it)? I have got release 5.5 - so that is not the question this time. I know this is not about CFT - but I post it here hoping to get help from my friends! Regards Sigurd Eliassen sigurde@spjelkavik.vgs.no

I am using the latest 32 bit version and over the past versions have had intermittent backup failures. Usually, I just click cancel and the next time it works anyway. Judie, Melbourne, Australia http://members.tripod.com/~jmoore2/ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/7619/ http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/b/s/Judie-A-Abson/index.html Researching the names WALKER, McCRACKEN, ABSON, SMART, KEEPENCE, WOODFORD, LEDGER, CHENEY, CARSWELL.

.... (Links to several translation sites) ... > Does anyone know of any others? > Although this certainly is not the subject of this Mailing list, translations can be useful or even necessary to all genealogists. Therefor I want to report that Alta Vista has opened a "translation service" Website. After a search in Alta Vista you find the word "translate" after several of the links. Click on that one and you go to the "translation" Website. Select from which language to which language you would like to translate, and the complete website to which your Alta Vista link pointed will be translated! It's like magic. Try it and "happy rooting", René Hasekamp (Please don't remove me from the list for this "sidejump"!)

Hi All, Yesterday on the RESEARCH-HOW-TO list there was an exchange of msgs about on-line translation sites which I thought I'd pass on to the CFT-WIN list. For English to/from French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate - good accuracy For English to/from Swedish, Danish, Norwegian: http://www.algonet.se/~hagsten/engindex.htm - so-so accuracy Does anyone know of any other translation sites? For on-line dictionaries there are 137 languages at: http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html For spoken Polish there is a Talking Dictionary at: http://www.ae.poznan.pl/~pjk/tree/potd.htm Does anyone know of any others? Jon ______________________________ | | | EMQUAD International, Ltd. | | P.O. Box 60 | | Great Neck, NY 11022 | | - | | emquad@worldnet.att.net | | http://home.att.net/~emquad | | - | | Consulting Division | | Publishing Division | |______________________________|

I am using v. 2.27; have had the problem (error 160) for quite awhile, likely ever since I upgraded to 32-bit. I can close the database, select backup from the main menu, select a destination on the hard drive and then backup, but not automatically. Not a huge problem. -- Gerald B. (Jerry) Crawford

Ian Fettes wrote: > Hi all, > > One question that does not seem to have been asked is, which operating > system version of CFTW has the problem? > > I run under both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 which are 32 bit system and I > have never had any backup problems. Perhaps the problems may relate to the > 16bit Windows 3.11? I'm running version 2.0 under Windows 95 and have the problem backing up to a floppy. Dan Hoadley

>One question that does not seem to have been asked is, which operating >system version of CFTW has the problem? > >I run under both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 which are 32 bit system and I >have never had any backup problems. Perhaps the problems may relate to the >16bit Windows 3.11? The problem is the 32-bit CFT-Win only. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

>I don't think it would be worthwhile to have responses from all of us who >never have had any problem, but only those that have or have not >responded with any specifics that would help diagnose. I do appreciate hearing that there are a number of people (as I suspected) that never had a problem. I suspect the problem is related to the OCX which the backup uses. An OCX is a piece of software written by another party. Therefore I don't have complete control over it. The solution I propose is about the quickest one to implement. Otherwise I don't see wasting a great deal of my time tabulating types of computers that have the problem, etc. (There are much more beneficial things I could do my time - like working on Ver 3.) I have known of the problem for a long time (probably a couple of years) but have assummed it was a minor problem experienced by only a few users. And that well might be the case. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

Hi all, One question that does not seem to have been asked is, which operating system version of CFTW has the problem? I run under both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 which are 32 bit system and I have never had any backup problems. Perhaps the problems may relate to the 16bit Windows 3.11? Ian Fettes Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Reply to: fettesi@st.net.au

Joseph Cain wrote: > I gather from past replies that some users have had the problem and > others mysteriously not. I say "mysterious" since to date there seems to > be no hard evidence to sort out those with the problem and those who do > not. Ira has noted that regardless he will plan to find a way to > eliminate. > I'm not absolutely certain but haven't the folks backing up the floppies had the problem more consistently than those backing up to the hard drive? Dan Hoadley

I have version 2.27 and turned on the on-exit backup utility for a few days to check for any problems. Worked perfectly for me (backed up to hard drive) Karen Pastuzyn