I am not going to comment on the ancestor line marking, I get by. #1. right now,(Version 9) the first place the file locator looks is the start in folder, or the last place you loaded a file from in this session. Version ten: http://formalsoft.com/features.htm is supposed to let you set folders for different types of files. Maybe this wish is already granted. #2. I wrote a short macro for word to change all the surnames to “Title Case” in a GEDCOM. It works great, with a change of a word, it would change them all to all uppercase too. #3. Deleting Databases. If you delete the database using Family Origins it gets rid of al 35 files, the “lst” and “ged” files are left for you to do with as you please. You might want to use the GEDCOM again, and the list file might as well be deleted as soon as you get through checking the import of the GEDCOM. Large printouts! If you check with Kinko’s and see what printer they are using, set your computer to output to that printer, (If you can find the drivers) Set the paper size, then see what Family Origins output to the screen looks like. If it looks right, capture the printer port output to a file and trot down to Kinko’s with the file on a floppy and see what they can do with it. (you have to fool your computer into thinking you have that printer connected, then divert the output to a PRN file, which is not the same as printing to a genetic text file. I could do that in DOS, but I cannot remember how to do it with Windows. ) Ok I think I found it: After the imaginary printer is set up, left click on it and select it’s properties, Click on the “Details” tab to show it, then click on the “Capture printer port” button. In the Path slot, enter the path and filename you want to save the file to. You might want to check the “Reconnect at logon” that looks to me to be the way to stop printing to a file in case you forget next time. But it wont help if you have a real printer set on this port, because it will get commands it cannot understand. I don’t know that this will work, but with my Epson, I can set the paper size to 9’5” by 44” and the screen output shows that it takes just 4 sheets to print my 8 generation ancestor box chart, but I don’t have any paper this size <{;-( Good luck, Alfred ================== ----- Original Message ----- From: <SueDotLund@aol.com> ------SNIP------ > > Although I think this is a super idea to highlight an ancestral line, it is > totally ineffective if I want to change the root person -- say, to run a > report for my cousin and have her as the root person. ------SNIP------ > > Other ideas -- I also work a lot with other's GEDCOMS. I import them into > new databases and fiddle around with them for a while and eventually delete > the whole thing when I'm done. I run into quite a lot of annoyances (not > problems - just slow things) that I would like to see improved. > > 1. When opening the "import GEDCOM" screen, I would like the file tree to > "remember" the folder to which I last had it opened. I have an elaborate ------SNIP------ > > 2. I use the Global search and replace feature a lot, mostly to change > surnames from all Caps to Upper/Lower case. I hate all cap surnames. ------SNIP------ > 3. This is a housekeeping plea: Maybe I'm missing something that's already > available, so let me know if I'm smoking my socks, or something... Referring > to new databases generating those 34 little files that start with the name of > the database, as well as all the LST files for all the GEDCOMS that get ------SNIP------ > > Someone recently mentioned something related to this that caught my eye but > I've lost track of the information. I would like to have my wall chart > printed out on one large sheet of paper rather than my having to tape 24 > sheets of letter paper together. I know my local Kinko's has a huge printer > that would do this but I need to know how I could create a file (what kind of > file?) to give them that they could print. I know they don't have a clue > what a GEDCOM is because I've asked that before, so I know they don't have > any sort of genealogy software loaded. (The fools! If they only knew the > business they'd get!) Anyway - any ideas on how to create this, or if it is > even possible for them to read the data file for a wall chart? > ------SNIP------ > Susan Lund

Sue, Let us know if Alfred's suggestion works. I to would like to print large charts at Kinko's. If it doesn't work we need to put it on the official suggestion list. -----Snip------- Large printouts! If you check with Kinko’s and see what printer they are using, set your computer to output to that printer, (If you can find the drivers) Set the paper size, then see what Family Origins output to the screen looks like. If it looks right, capture the printer port output to a file and trot down to Kinko’s with the file on a floppy and see what they can do with it. (you have to fool your computer into thinking you have that printer connected, then divert the output to a PRN file, which is not the same as printing to a genetic text file. I could do that in DOS, but I cannot remember how to do it with Windows. ) Ok I think I found it: After the imaginary printer is set up, left click on it and select it’s properties, Click on the “Details” tab to show it, then click on the “Capture printer port” button. In the Path slot, enter the path and filename you want to save the file to. You might want to check the “Reconnect at logon” that looks to me to be the way to stop printing to a file in case you forget next time. But it wont help if you have a real printer set on this port, because it will get commands it cannot understand. I don’t know that this will work, but with my Epson, I can set the paper size to 9’5” by 44” and the screen output shows that it takes just 4 sheets to print my 8 generation ancestor box chart, but I don’t have any paper this size <{;-( Good luck, Alfred