I have just printed out an "Ancestor Book" for my wife's line, with the "Ancestors and children" option selected, but when I printed out the document, my wife noticed right away that her half-sister (same father, different mother) was left out of the printed document, with only her five "full" siblings included. I have never noticed this before, but is this normal? Is there a way of "forcing" FO (I am using 9.02) to include such a family member? This sister (they NEVER use the "half," even though it is correct) and her father were abandoned by her mother not long after her birth, and when her father then married my wife's mother, the family has always gone to great lengths to include her in the "new family" in every way, and this printout has presented me with some problems. This sister and my wife have the same father but different mother, but it seems to me that printing out my wife's ancestors and their children should include this half-sister. If my wife's father is her ancestor, and this half sister is one of his children, then why can't she be included in such a report? We are going to a family reunion tomorrow and I would like to be able to take a report that includes ALL of my wife's ancestors and ALL of their children ("half" or "full"), but am I asking for something that cannot be done? I welcome any suggestions from anyone. I realize time is short now, but I hadn't anticipated something like this. David MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) Phone: 540-372-7868 Fax: 540-372-7707 E-mail: decann@infi.net HOME PAGES Family: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy I'm a RootsWeb Sponsor. Ask me how you can be one, too. Researching Bradford, Brewer, Cann, Cashatt, Ewing, Fitch, Linson, Markley, Merkle, Oliver, Redkey, Schottler, Shockey and Vance surnames and any others related by birth, marriage or adoption.

She is already linked to the marriage of her father and birth mother. If you link her again, but to the marriage of her father and stepmother, she should print out as one of the children. She could remain linked to both sets of parents. She would be linked to her father twice, but to each mother. At 09:59 PM 6/9/01 -0400, David E. Cann wrote: >Alfred, > >The general consensus so far seems to agree with you, and with hindsight, I >am wishing now that I had printed a book of descendants of "the old >warlord" in Wales in 1302, rather than my wife and her ancestors. She has >really worked hard, though, getting all of this information before the >reunion tomorrow, and the book looks nice with "Ancestors of. . . . . . . . >" at the top of the page. > >I am still holding out against hope that one of the "resident experts" on >this list can come up with a way of doing it with an Ancestor Book, but it >does not look hopeful at this point. It would be an interesting option for >version 11, though (Bruce, are ya' listenin'???), IMHO. Unless that >happens, I will begin printing a "Descendants of" book of the ol' Welch >warlord soon, since the reunion is tomorrow and I am too stubborn to modify >my genealogy to read something that is not correct <g>. > >David > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 06/09/2001, at 7:02 PM, Alfred Eller wrote: > > >I have noted this too. If you do a descendant list she will show up, but > >there is no way, at present, to get half siblings to show up on an >ancestor > >list. > > ><snip> > >MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) >Phone: 540-372-7868 >Fax: 540-372-7707 >E-mail: decann@infi.net >Family home page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann

Any chance there's a tool in FO for deleting a family and all it's descendants? I copied over a person and all descendants with spouses, without knowing how many individuals were involved. I should have specified only 2 generations and didn't. Now I have added 4,783 additional individuals in my database of 10,000 that I don't want there. (Yes, I could go back to backup but don't have one from the last week or so. Don't know how many other changes I could lose.) Ideas? Stan Harder Web page: http://www.smharder.com

Allan Plucinik wrote: > This site seems pretty useful. Not sure if this the one you had in mind though. > > http://graphicssoft.about.com/compute/graphicssoft/library/weekly/aa111799.htm > =============== If it's not, you might try this one. http://www.scantips.com/ Jim

In a message dated 6/8/2001 5:21:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time, JTift@aol.com writes: > I bookmarked the site that offers tips for scanning but now I can't find > it. http://scantips.com - Bruce http://formalsoft.com - Family Origins genealogy software http://family-reunion.com - Plan the perfect family reunion

In a message dated 06/08/2001 4:13:51 PM Central Daylight Time, FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Evidentially we have everything fixed, except for David's wayward delete > finger <};-) > > Alfred > I bookmarked the site that offers tips for scanning but now I can't find it...I am trying to scan some type written pages into some Family Origins notes...I could type them but they are long and I am lazy :>( Does anyone have that site handy? Thanks, Jane Lindsey Tift

At 05:58 PM 6/8/2001 -0400, Wayne League wrote: >Send the report to an RTF file and after changing the page numbers in >your word processor, generate the index after you have done all the >editing you want to do. You could even send several book reports to >RTF files, combine them all into one file, and then in MSWord, >generate one index for the whole lot. Or in WordPerfect:o) Sue

crhjeh@juno.com wrote: >Then we printed five generations of the family, using FO, >Reports, Books, Indented (outline numbering), and changing the page >numbers so that the first page was page 53. It made a beautiful report, >except for the fact that the index did not change numbers, so that what >was on my page 53, it showed as page 1. Send the report to an RTF file and after changing the page numbers in your word processor, generate the index after you have done all the editing you want to do. You could even send several book reports to RTF files, combine them all into one file, and then in MSWord, generate one index for the whole lot. Wayne League

This site seems pretty useful. Not sure if this the one you had in mind though. http://graphicssoft.about.com/compute/graphicssoft/library/weekly/aa111799.htm JTift@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 06/08/2001 4:13:51 PM Central Daylight Time, > FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > Evidentially we have everything fixed, except for David's wayward delete > > finger <};-) > > > > Alfred > > > > I bookmarked the site that offers tips for scanning but now I can't find > it...I am trying to scan some type written pages into some Family Origins > notes...I could type them but they are long and I am lazy :>( > > Does anyone have that site handy? > > Thanks, Jane Lindsey Tift > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

Do it right 100 times in a row and you never hear a thing, but do it wrong just once, and you hear about it FOREVER <:-) My thanks to all who have responded, both on and off the list, including Alfred who sent me a list of ALL taglines which are now "filed" away, and to Bruce for taking the time to straighten me out. I thank one and all, but you can stop the responses now. I think the problem is that I am home on a Friday, and I am very rarely home on any weekday, and I do "dangerous things" when I have extra time on my hands <G>. Thanks again to one and all. David *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 06/08/2001, at 12:05 PM, Alfred Eller wrote: >Evidentially we have everything fixed, except for David's wayward delete >finger <};-) > >Alfred <snip> MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) Phone: 540-372-7868 Fax: 540-372-7707 E-mail: decann@infi.net Family home page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann

Hi ! If there are no important problems out there, perhaps you can help me with mine. A friend and I put together a book before Christmas, using version 8, and I ran into a numbering problem. We began the book with an introduction, maps, stories, copies of wills, etc, numbering about 52 pages. Then we printed five generations of the family, using FO, Reports, Books, Indented (outline numbering), and changing the page numbers so that the first page was page 53. It made a beautiful report, except for the fact that the index did not change numbers, so that what was on my page 53, it showed as page 1. We were in a hurry to get it finished, so we just made the report in two parts, each starting on page 1. Did I miss something? Can someone tell me what I did wrong? Christina Hoffman

At 12:55 PM 6/8/01, you wrote: >In a flash of "overexuberant housecleaning," I have apparently deleted The >Genealogical Companion's" URL from my list of "favorites" ("bookmarks" if >you use Netscape), and cannot now remember what it is. I know I have seen >it in the taglines Alfred puts on our messages sometimes, and I am now >going through some of the old ones I have left, but I am afraid that they >are also victims of the same "housecleaning binge." It's at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm

In a message dated 6/8/2001 10:59:24 AM Mountain Daylight Time, decann@infi.net writes: > In a flash of "overexuberant housecleaning," I have apparently deleted The > Genealogical Companion's" URL from my list of "favorites" ("bookmarks" if > you use Netscape), and cannot now remember what it is. I know I have seen > it in the taglines Alfred puts on our messages sometimes, and I am now > going through some of the old ones I have left, but I am afraid that they > www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm - Bruce http://formalsoft.com - Family Origins genealogy software http://family-reunion.com - Plan the perfect family reunion

Evidentially we have everything fixed, except for David's wayward delete finger <};-) Alfred ====== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard G. Akins" <akins@earth.cheme.ksu.edu> > My morning routine of reading FO messages has 'fallen on hard > times' for the last couple of days! I wonder if it's you or just me? > > > Dick & Eva Sue Akins > Manhattan, KS

Of course it's you! <G> >===== Original Message From akins@ksu.edu ===== >My morning routine of reading FO messages has 'fallen on hard >times' for the last couple of days! I wonder if it's you or just me?

In a flash of "overexuberant housecleaning," I have apparently deleted The Genealogical Companion's" URL from my list of "favorites" ("bookmarks" if you use Netscape), and cannot now remember what it is. I know I have seen it in the taglines Alfred puts on our messages sometimes, and I am now going through some of the old ones I have left, but I am afraid that they are also victims of the same "housecleaning binge." If I did delete it, it was by mistake. I have just begin looking, so I may find it, but some helpful soul out there will save me a lot of time if he/she happens to know it and will send it to me. Either way, I thank you in advance for the help. David MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) Phone: 540-372-7868 Fax: 540-372-7707 E-mail: decann@infi.net HOME PAGES Family: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy I'm a RootsWeb Sponsor. Ask me how you can be one, too. Researching Bradford, Brewer, Cann, Cashatt, Ewing, Fitch, Linson, Markley, Merkle, Oliver, Redkey, Schottler, Shockey and Vance surnames and any others related by birth, marriage or adoption.

My morning routine of reading FO messages has 'fallen on hard times' for the last couple of days! I wonder if it's you or just me? Dick & Eva Sue Akins Manhattan, KS Akins & Commander (NC>GA>AL) Hughes (MD>KY) Weinedel (GR>NY>KY) Bourne (VA>KY) Ogden & Devore (??>KY)

I have not received any mail from the list for two days, what is wrong? Evelyn

>Would the global search & replace option work for you? By the way, >mine is not working right now--does anyone have a clue on that? Global search & replace does work for me, and I have used it to solve the problem of meaningless notes in imported GEDCOM. However, I would only regard it as a partial solution. Sometimes the meaningless notes are too long for the global search & replace mechanism. That is, the search argument is too long. So I have to do the replace piecewise. The other problem is that I am often left with blank notes which are not null. The meaningless notes are often preceeded by two or three blank lines, and it seems impossible to include those blank lines in the search argument for global search & replace. So I end up having to delete the blank but not null notes by hand, and there can be a lot of them and they can be hard to find. I am pleased, however, that the global search and replace mechanism does permit the replacement string to be null. Jerry Bryan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Or you can have your submitter to save the FTW file in an earlier format of FTW, making you able to read it. Ole P. Bielefeldt Ry, Denmark -----Original Message----- From: Gil & Sue [mailto:genjunky@cancios.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:12 AM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FO] converting FTM to Gedcom Yepper, you can read minds, Wayne:o) And I could understand your take much better! Sue At 02:51 PM 6/5/2001 -0400, Wayne League wrote: >My take on what Sue said is that FTW ver 6 or earlier cannot open an >.ftw database made by FTW version 7 or 8. But then you would not >expect any program to be able to open a file from a newer version. > >I think her point was that the most viable solution when someone is >sending you an .ftw file is to help your friend with FTW learn how to >make a gedcom file with his/her program. > >Wayne League ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the word: UNSUBSCRIBE(inside the message) and no additional text to: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com or FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com for DIGEST ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB