Paul When I talk about hot links on FTM all the names on my tree have a leaf symbol at the end. When this is shown you just put the cursor over it. This will indicate how many hot links there are. These hot links could be other peoples trees indicating they were searching the same name you have. This does not mean it is the same name and you need to check it. Other hot links are census details. If you did not have the census for that particular person then the hot link leads you to it. If is 'your' person then you have it there so no need to do a search thus saving time. Other hot links are to baptism, marriage and burial details. So long as Ancestry have added them and you subscribe to them then they are there for you to download. As to GR census like I said I don't use this but I imagine you download the image and save it. From there you use Ancestral Sources to add it to your FH Your comment about gedcom is why I don't read the details and just leave matters to the computer experts. It takes time to revise all this but when it is ready it would then be adopted by all the companies involved in making family tree software. The name of the magazine I gave was incorrect. It was the old name and is now called Family Tree. As I said I have not read the article yet and am in no hurry to do so Victor ------Original Message------ From: Paul White To: Victor Markham Cc: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com ReplyTo: Paul White Subject: GEDCOM etc Sent: 23 Mar 2012 15:29 Victor said "...the reason I use FTM is because it does provide lots of hot links..." To be honest I don't know what you mean here. But if you're referring to contacts (i.e. people getting in touch) then Genes Reunited is at least 10 times more productive in my case. Victor also said "GEDCOM is going through a revision." Hmmm, and don't we know it! Again. And by more than one group. One day it will be brilliant to have a more object-orientated storage, but how long do you think it will take for Gen software makers to support it - and with what degree of fidelity? (Simon excepted). You realise I'm not going to live long enough to reap the benefit :) Victor further said "Genes Reunited do do census..." Sorry, i wasn't being clear here. Yes, GR provides census data. I meant it doesn't accept census records in a GED upload. Paul Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

" It takes time to revise all this but when it is ready it would then be adopted by all the companies involved in making family tree software. " Your belief in the keenness of companies to rush to accept a new standard and rewrite all their software is heart-warming but, I fear, misplaced. Ian (Any errors in the above message are due entirely to the use of fat fingers on this Blackberry mini "keyboard") -----Original Message----- From: victor@markham.me.uk Sender: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:02:09 To: Paul White<pauldesmondwhite@yahoo.co.uk> Reply-To: victor@markham.me.uk, family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Cc: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com<family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] GEDCOM etc Paul When I talk about hot links on FTM all the names on my tree have a leaf symbol at the end. When this is shown you just put the cursor over it. This will indicate how many hot links there are. These hot links could be other peoples trees indicating they were searching the same name you have. This does not mean it is the same name and you need to check it. Other hot links are census details. If you did not have the census for that particular person then the hot link leads you to it. If is 'your' person then you have it there so no need to do a search thus saving time. Other hot links are to baptism, marriage and burial details. So long as Ancestry have added them and you subscribe to them then they are there for you to download. As to GR census like I said I don't use this but I imagine you download the image and save it. From there you use Ancestral Sources to add it to your FH Your comment about gedcom is why I don't read the details and just leave matters to the computer experts. It takes time to revise all this but when it is ready it would then be adopted by all the companies involved in making family tree software. The name of the magazine I gave was incorrect. It was the old name and is now called Family Tree. As I said I have not read the article yet and am in no hurry to do so Victor ------Original Message------ From: Paul White To: Victor Markham Cc: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com ReplyTo: Paul White Subject: GEDCOM etc Sent: 23 Mar 2012 15:29 Victor said "...the reason I use FTM is because it does provide lots of hot links..." To be honest I don't know what you mean here. But if you're referring to contacts (i.e. people getting in touch) then Genes Reunited is at least 10 times more productive in my case. Victor also said "GEDCOM is going through a revision." Hmmm, and don't we know it! Again. And by more than one group. One day it will be brilliant to have a more object-orientated storage, but how long do you think it will take for Gen software makers to support it - and with what degree of fidelity? (Simon excepted). You realise I'm not going to live long enough to reap the benefit :) Victor further said "Genes Reunited do do census..." Sorry, i wasn't being clear here. Yes, GR provides census data. I meant it doesn't accept census records in a GED upload. Paul Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message