When you have the chart on screen, where it says Descandents in the right hand panel, click on All descendants and choose the descendant you want to be the "lower" one. Regards, Ole from Denmark 2014-01-28 Anne B St John <[email protected]> > I am using Windows 7, 64 bit & FTM 2012. > > How do I create a Direct Descendant Chart? I want a chart showing the > direct > lineage from my 5X great grandfather down to me. > > Thanks for your assistance. > Anne > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Ole P. Bielefeldt www.familytreemaker.dk

Thanks. I will try that method. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Ole P. Bielefeldt Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Direct Descendant Chart in 2012 version When you have the chart on screen, where it says Descandents in the right hand panel, click on All descendants and choose the descendant you want to be the "lower" one. Regards, Ole from Denmark 2014-01-28 Anne B St John <[email protected]> > I am using Windows 7, 64 bit & FTM 2012. > > How do I create a Direct Descendant Chart? I want a chart showing the > direct > lineage from my 5X great grandfather down to me. > > Thanks for your assistance. > Anne > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Ole P. Bielefeldt www.familytreemaker.dk ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am using Windows 7, 64 bit & FTM 2012. How do I create a Direct Descendant Chart? I want a chart showing the direct lineage from my 5X great grandfather down to me. Thanks for your assistance. Anne

Thank you for your comments. I am able to replicate this first problem but only erratically. Sometimes it returns me to the actual parents but at other times it returns me to the Preferred Spousal relationship. I have not been able to determine a pattern to this. I think what is happening is: * when you go to the child level - most times you are returned to the actual parents because the backward link is still in the temporary storage location. * when you go down an additional generational level and you attempt to return up two generational levels, you are returned to the preferred spousal relationship. I suspect the temporary memory storage was over written by the parents of the child and when you attempt to return to the grandparents, it must use the information from the relationship index which points to the preferred spouse. BJ On 1/27/2014 12:32 PM, Joanne Hintz wrote: > First, this is just FYI - I'm not looking for solutions for these, but > just comments in case others run into the same. > > 1. One is just an annoyance. When updating a series of children in a > family of a husband with multiple wives and children with each, I was > also going back to the parents of the children by using the tab above > the wife. When working with the series under the non-preferred wife, > the correct parents are displayed on the tab, but when selecting the tab > to return to those parents, the return is to the husband/father with the > preferred wife. > > I assume anyone can recreate this. No data damage, just an incorrect > use of the "preferred" flag resulting in some extra navigation required > by the user.

I think too many people misinterpret the copyright laws and may think they are infringing upon the "owners" copyrights. Most of the information found on the Find A Grave web site is not copyrightable. The name, date of birth, date of death, cemetery information are all facts as as such are not copyrightable. Only original content is copyrightable. This includes any original bio information to which the Owner may or may not have the copyright. The person who took any photos has the copyright to those photos. That may or may not be the person who uploaded the photo to the site. Some photos have a note that they may be copies and shared. Others whom I have contacted tell me I am welcome to share the photos. I think most of the contributors are friendly people who want to assist others in locating the final resting place of their relatives and have no problem with the information being shared. This is what Find A Grave's FAQ has to say about citing the memorial: /*How do I cite Find A Grave in a bibliography?*// //Please feel free to cite Find A Grave in your bibliographies, lists of references, etc. in whatever format you deem appropriate. Please note that, while Jim Tipton is the creator of Find A Grave, he is not the author of all of the content. If the information you are referencing includes a "bio by XXXXXXX" line, please cite that author as well. // //Sample citation: Bio Author. "Web Page Title". Find A Grave. Date of (your) access.// //Sample citation: Bio Author. "John Doe". //Find A Grave <http://www.findagrave.com>//. 6-1-2008. //[Top <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=listFaqs#faqTop>]/ This is how I handle the information. I enter the factual information using the Burial fact. I have a Source - Find A Grave. This has the basic information about Find A Grave. The source-citation contains the following * Citation Detail - "Cemetery record for xxxxxxx" * Citation Text - "Memorial # nnnnnnn" * Citation Note - any additional information from the Bio. Since source-citation notes are not displayed in the AMT there is no possible copyright infringement. But at any rate, I will cite the owner as the author. * Citation Web URL - contains a link directly to the Find A Grave Memorial. * Source-citation Media - a downloaded copy of the grave site photo. I do not mark this a Private but in the media description I always include o Name of the individual o Type of photo "Tombstone" o Date of death o Name and location of the Cemetery o The following statement o "Uploaded to Find A Grave Memorial # nnnnnnnnn by xxxxxxx on dddddd" where nnnnnn is the memorial number, xxxxx is the name of the person uploading the photo and ddddd is the date the photo was uploaded. o URL of the Photo in Find A Grave. Basically don't over complicate things too much. My interest is in assisting others find their roots. Find A Grave encourages people to link to their web site memorials. People willingly contribute information and photos because it provides free access. Anyone can search. You only need to be a member to "contribute". Just my 2 cents worth. BJ On 1/28/2014 6:48 AM, Joanne Hintz wrote: > Barry, > > I don't know about "genealogical standards" but with 'findability' as > the goal, it works most of the time for most people. I use > FindAGrave.com but add the memorial number(s) to cover the odd > circumstances noted before and for those who aren't creative searchers. > > > > On 1/28/2014 8:04 AM, Barry S. Finkel wrote: >>> The URLs may change but then so might the memorial numbers. >> Would it be acceptable via genealogical standards to note only >> "FindAGrave.com"? The FTM record should contain the person's name, >> dates, and cemetery, so it the future it should not be hard >> to go to the FindAGrave web site and locate the desired person.

Barry, I don't know about "genealogical standards" but with 'findability' as the goal, it works most of the time for most people. I use FindAGrave.com but add the memorial number(s) to cover the odd circumstances noted before and for those who aren't creative searchers. Joanne Minnesota On 1/28/2014 8:04 AM, Barry S. Finkel wrote: >> The URLs may change but then so might the memorial numbers. > Would it be acceptable via genealogical standards to note only > "FindAGrave.com"? The FTM record should contain the person's name, > dates, and cemetery, so it the future it should not be hard > to go to the FindAGrave web site and locate the desired person. > > --Barry Finkel > Chicago

Barry, I capture as much information from the Find-A-Grave memorial page as possible. The KEY Fact for me, is one i created called FindAGrave and I mark that Fact Private and it contains ONLY the memorial number The Find-A-Grave website allows you to search for that. Lets say the memorial is "owned" by someone else but you have the Memorial Number for the parents, siblings, or children of that person. You can request the "owner" to create a link to the parent, (one at a time), spouse, Children (one at at time), it a request. With the Fact, I know what numbers to request. Just a thought. Russ   ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: Barry S. Finkel <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Find a Grave > The URLs may change but then so might the memorial numbers. Would it be acceptable via genealogical standards to note only "FindAGrave.com"?  The FTM record should contain the person's name, dates, and cemetery, so it the future it should not be hard to go to the FindAGrave web site and locate the desired person.

> The URLs may change but then so might the memorial numbers. Would it be acceptable via genealogical standards to note only "FindAGrave.com"? The FTM record should contain the person's name, dates, and cemetery, so it the future it should not be hard to go to the FindAGrave web site and locate the desired person. --Barry Finkel Chicago

First, this is just FYI - I'm not looking for solutions for these, but just comments in case others run into the same. 1. One is just an annoyance. When updating a series of children in a family of a husband with multiple wives and children with each, I was also going back to the parents of the children by using the tab above the wife. When working with the series under the non-preferred wife, the correct parents are displayed on the tab, but when selecting the tab to return to those parents, the return is to the husband/father with the preferred wife. I assume anyone can recreate this. No data damage, just an incorrect use of the "preferred" flag resulting in some extra navigation required by the user. 2. The other is a damaged database that could not be recovered. I tried the usual recovery methods and talked to Ancestry/FTM; no additional suggestions there. Database activity before the problem was not unusual. I was updating about 25 children at the bottom of their chains - adding a few, inserting middle names, adding/changing birth dates and places. A few place corrections also triggered 'fixes' to 3 or 4 other entries. Similar changes were made to parents and a few marriage dates added. Updates and notes were added to several grandparents. There were no unusual errors - nags when I 'fat-finger' dates or start to enter a place name in the date field. After adding an individual, I realized I was unable to find her in the index. Not out of sequence; she was not there at all. So I went off to compact the file. That appeared to start normally, but failed soon with the "FTM 2014 has stopped working" panel and a forced close. Any attempts to open the file again results in the same. The usual 'back door' merge to a new file with one entry fails with a new message - "database disk image is malformed". Browsing tech sites for the message seems to indicate others may sometimes be able to recover if they have an SQL data dump feature in their software kit so they can dump and reload their database. It would appear that a database update failed and the compact feature not only couldn't recover it, but it couldn't just drop that update and process the remainder of the database. It may have no relation to the out-of-sequence index some people have experienced. The failure to process an index entry at all could just be the symptom I saw. FTM was not reinstalled as it worked normally with other databases. I went to a backup and was only missing a couple of small updates in addition to this batch ... and the update list was on paper that I had not yet shredded (bonus!). [Using Win/7, 64-bit, database only about 11,000 people.] J.Hintz

Ancestry changed the URLs on all of Rootsweb. Of course it had more features & functions than FAG does. It seems they thought they "needed" the Ancestry name in there to be sure everyone knew it was part of their turf. It may or may not happen with FAG, but I'll duck the issue and not use the URL. When there are duplicate memorials, I can record both and note that. Probably one will go away eventually - I usually send a note, as you do. Sometimes another comes back anyway ... FAG does not handle multiple marriage names well for searching & people are trying to add Auntie's 3 previous marriages in front of the last (burial) name - or Auntie is buried with married name #1 but her death certificate is married name #2 and both are entered. Some people actually have stones in two cemeteries - one with wife #1, but no death date on it - buried in another cemetery with wife #2 - and both documented under the same name. A couple that will probably remain duplicates are from families where the stone is the "old" spelling of the name but another volunteer insists on putting a memorial in with the current "right" family name spelling. (Roll eyes, document it in your way in your file and move on. <G> ) J.Hintz On 1/27/2014 2:02 AM, BJ wrote: > The URLs may change but then so might the memorial numbers. I've found > a number of people who have different memorials. In one instance the > memorials were not just for different cemeteries but in different > cities. When I find these situations, I send messages to both > individuals and they normally work it out. One normally is taken down. > > Changes in the URL are rare and changes in the memorial numbers are even > more rare but it is always a starting point. The point is it tells > others where I got the information. Nothing is ever permanent. > > BJ > >

I do merge data from ancestry for my FAG memorials, even though many of them are ones that I made myself. The link gives a direct access to the source at ancestry and the ancestry gives a direct link to the memorial. I m pretty sure the links will remain good now that ancestry has purchased it. Since I have many, many people who either changed their names, the spelling or were adopted and are not buried under their birth names, these links are important for future family members to be able to find and connect the two. In my tree I use the name as shown on the birth record or baptismal record or earliest record I can find. I also make notations as to name changes where and when I find them, but many times they are not buried under those names. Plus, in my Canadian families they can have 3 to 5 given names and use any one of them as the daily called name. Over the years they have driven me wild trying to keep track of them in records. A man whose birth record shows Samuel Lawrence James Robert [surname] can show up as Samuel in the first census, as Jim in ensuing census returns as James S. L. for military records and be buried as S. L. James [surname] on his tombstone. One the memorials I make I can put a note born such and such to and name the parents as well as link to the parents, but the links in the tree to ancestry records and then the link to the proper FAG memorial sure makes it easier for newer researchers to find and put together all the records I have struggled over with living descendants to find. The newer researchers will not have the luxury of older descendants of the people to work with that I have had. Annie in Minnesota -----Original Message----- From: rewolf4 <[email protected]> To: ftm-tech <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jan 26, 2014 11:09 pm Subject: [FTM-TECH] Find a Grave I have used Find a Grave for a number of years, but I utilize a different methodology. Most of my colonial ancestors are from Brookfield, MA or Suffield, CT. As an example, I would run a sources report on Brookfield, which will give me a list of all individuals associated with that community. Next I go to Find a Grave and do a search for all cemeteries in Brookfield. Then I compare my list to that of Find a Grave. Once I get a match, I save the photo to my "Cemetery Photos file" and subsequently to the media tab for the specific individual. I do not give credit to the photographer, but I do list the photos as "Private". I never merge data from Ancestry/Find a Grave because that shows Ancestry as the "Source", which they are not. They are the repository. Another factor which many miss is that Ancestry is a Subscription site, while Find a Grave is Free (at least for now). By listing the source as Find a Grave, someone who is not a subscriber can go the the site and get the information for themselves. Just another way of doing things I guess. ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The URLs may change but then so might the memorial numbers. I've found a number of people who have different memorials. In one instance the memorials were not just for different cemeteries but in different cities. When I find these situations, I send messages to both individuals and they normally work it out. One normally is taken down. Changes in the URL are rare and changes in the memorial numbers are even more rare but it is always a starting point. The point is it tells others where I got the information. Nothing is ever permanent. BJ On 1/26/2014 10:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I do merge data from ancestry for my FAG memorials, even though many of them are ones that I made myself. The link gives a direct access to the source at ancestry and the ancestry gives a direct link to the memorial. I m pretty sure the links will remain good now that ancestry has purchased it. Since I have many, many people who either changed their names, the spelling or were adopted and are not buried under their birth names, these links are important for future family members to be able to find and connect the two. In my tree I use the name as shown on the birth record or baptismal record or earliest record I can find. I also make notations as to name changes where and when I find them, but many times they are not buried under those names. Plus, in my Canadian families they can have 3 to 5 given names and use any one of them as the daily called name. Over the years they have driven me wild trying to keep track of them in records. A man whose birth record shows S! am! > uel Lawrence James Robert [surname] can show up as Samuel in the first census, as Jim in ensuing census returns as James S. L. for military records and be buried as S. L. James [surname] on his tombstone. One the memorials I make I can put a note born such and such to and name the parents as well as link to the parents, but the links in the tree to ancestry records and then the link to the proper FAG memorial sure makes it easier for newer researchers to find and put together all the records I have struggled over with living descendants to find. The newer researchers will not have the luxury of older descendants of the people to work with that I have had.

I have used Find a Grave for a number of years, but I utilize a different methodology. Most of my colonial ancestors are from Brookfield, MA or Suffield, CT. As an example, I would run a sources report on Brookfield, which will give me a list of all individuals associated with that community. Next I go to Find a Grave and do a search for all cemeteries in Brookfield. Then I compare my list to that of Find a Grave. Once I get a match, I save the photo to my "Cemetery Photos file" and subsequently to the media tab for the specific individual. I do not give credit to the photographer, but I do list the photos as "Private". I never merge data from Ancestry/Find a Grave because that shows Ancestry as the "Source", which they are not. They are the repository. Another factor which many miss is that Ancestry is a Subscription site, while Find a Grave is Free (at least for now). By listing the source as Find a Grave, someone who is not a subscriber can go the the site and get the information for themselves. Just another way of doing things I guess.

I don't rely on the URL to remain stable - the memorial # should remain the same, though they may have to add leading zeros again. Joanne On 1/26/2014 6:21 PM, BJ wrote: > Thanks for the great suggestion. I also use the media's Description to > enter the name of the individual who uploaded the photo to Find A > Grave. I also include the Web URL for the photo in Find A Grave which > has the ID and the date of the upload. > > As you say, it is all about providing links for other researchers to > find their loved ones. > > Thanks again. > > BJ > > On 1/26/2014 1:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Since I have a couple of thousand memorials for my family up on Find Grave and do use photos from it in my tree I use the description box to state that the "pic is courtesy of" and either use the name of the FAG volunteer or the name of the cousin who uploaded it for me. That way the owner of the original photo is established. I also ask the owners of photos to upload them to FAG even if they send me copies so the ownership is established publically. Sometimes some cousins who have difficulty using computers will not be able to figure out how to upload a pic, then I will do it for them and stating on FAG that "the photo is courtesy of" and list their name; so again ownership of the original is established publically. And again, I do the same in my tree for the same pic. The object is to not loose the images for the extended family in spite of the fact that the owners of the originals are dying off and not all the relatives are saving them. Plus I have hundred's of ! p! > ho! >> tos that were sent to me by relatives of collateral families who don't want them because they are photos of in-laws of their ancestors, not of their ancestors. I still id them as courtesy of whomever sent them to me, since no one in my family took them even though I now own the originals. Doing so has actually garnered me more contacts of living descendants of both families, which as international data coordinator of our family history research group has enabled me to further extend our tree and to put them in contact with others researching their part of the family tree. > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

I believe FindAGrave matching is independent of the version of FTM. These matches show up as hints from Ancestry and can be merged in the usual way you merge hints. Rosemary On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Nancy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, BJ. I have FTM 2011. Find A Grave matching may be enough to > make me upgrade. Does anyone know if there will be an FTM 2015? > > Nancy > > On 1/26/2014 2:56 PM, BJ wrote: > > I think you are asking whether the Find A Grave matching is available > > only in FTM 2014? The answer is no. The Find A Grave matching appeared > > about 8 months ago. I was using FTM 2012 at that time. > > > > It seems that Ancestry.com has reached an agreement with Find A Grave to > > be able to search the Find A Grave data base and generate a link to any > > names which are matched. It is similar to their links to RootsWeb's > > obituary data base. > > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

FTM 2011 should find the matches for Find A Grave. The match is made on the online site and should not be impacted by the version of FTM. Now the exception may be the versions FTM 16 and earlier. I doubt if any one knows whether their will be a FTM 2015. Normally they release a new version each year. The exception was FTM 2013. Instead of releasing a new version they attempted to improve the prior release and provide the improvements free to their customer base. BJ On 1/26/2014 2:16 PM, Nancy wrote: > Thanks, BJ. I have FTM 2011. Find A Grave matching may be enough to > make me upgrade. Does anyone know if there will be an FTM 2015?

Thanks for the great suggestion. I also use the media's Description to enter the name of the individual who uploaded the photo to Find A Grave. I also include the Web URL for the photo in Find A Grave which has the ID and the date of the upload. As you say, it is all about providing links for other researchers to find their loved ones. Thanks again. BJ On 1/26/2014 1:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Since I have a couple of thousand memorials for my family up on Find Grave and do use photos from it in my tree I use the description box to state that the "pic is courtesy of" and either use the name of the FAG volunteer or the name of the cousin who uploaded it for me. That way the owner of the original photo is established. I also ask the owners of photos to upload them to FAG even if they send me copies so the ownership is established publically. Sometimes some cousins who have difficulty using computers will not be able to figure out how to upload a pic, then I will do it for them and stating on FAG that "the photo is courtesy of" and list their name; so again ownership of the original is established publically. And again, I do the same in my tree for the same pic. The object is to not loose the images for the extended family in spite of the fact that the owners of the originals are dying off and not all the relatives are saving them. Plus I have hundred's of p! ho! > tos that were sent to me by relatives of collateral families who don't want them because they are photos of in-laws of their ancestors, not of their ancestors. I still id them as courtesy of whomever sent them to me, since no one in my family took them even though I now own the originals. Doing so has actually garnered me more contacts of living descendants of both families, which as international data coordinator of our family history research group has enabled me to further extend our tree and to put them in contact with others researching their part of the family tree.

Thanks, BJ. I have FTM 2011. Find A Grave matching may be enough to make me upgrade. Does anyone know if there will be an FTM 2015? Nancy On 1/26/2014 2:56 PM, BJ wrote: > I think you are asking whether the Find A Grave matching is available > only in FTM 2014? The answer is no. The Find A Grave matching appeared > about 8 months ago. I was using FTM 2012 at that time. > > It seems that Ancestry.com has reached an agreement with Find A Grave to > be able to search the Find A Grave data base and generate a link to any > names which are matched. It is similar to their links to RootsWeb's > obituary data base. > >

Since I have a couple of thousand memorials for my family up on Find Grave and do use photos from it in my tree I use the description box to state that the "pic is courtesy of" and either use the name of the FAG volunteer or the name of the cousin who uploaded it for me. That way the owner of the original photo is established. I also ask the owners of photos to upload them to FAG even if they send me copies so the ownership is established publically. Sometimes some cousins who have difficulty using computers will not be able to figure out how to upload a pic, then I will do it for them and stating on FAG that "the photo is courtesy of" and list their name; so again ownership of the original is established publically. And again, I do the same in my tree for the same pic. The object is to not loose the images for the extended family in spite of the fact that the owners of the originals are dying off and not all the relatives are saving them. Plus I have hundred's of photos that were sent to me by relatives of collateral families who don't want them because they are photos of in-laws of their ancestors, not of their ancestors. I still id them as courtesy of whomever sent them to me, since no one in my family took them even though I now own the originals. Doing so has actually garnered me more contacts of living descendants of both families, which as international data coordinator of our family history research group has enabled me to further extend our tree and to put them in contact with others researching their part of the family tree. Annie in Minnesota -----Original Message----- From: H R Worthington <[email protected]> To: ftm-tech <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jan 26, 2014 2:30 pm Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Find A Grave BJ, I did a blog post on how I use Find-A-Grave. http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/2013/12/ftm2014-web-clipping-from-find-grave.html In fact, I have posted 22 articles on Find-A-Grave. http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/search/label/Find-A-Grave Don't forget that IF you download an image from the Find-A-Grave Website, that you should Mark that Media File PRIVATE, unless YOU took the photo, if you use an Ancestry Member Tree. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: BJ <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Find A Grave The inclusion of Find A Grave matches is a welcome enhancement to the web search. Like Annie, I had quite a number of them in my data base before but have also found some new ones. When I find these matches, I use Web Merge to merge the information into my data base. Unfortunately the View Online link goes to the Ancestry.com match record which is in turn a link to the Find A Grave data base. Consequently, to view the actual memorial record, the user must click on View Online and then Click on the Ancestry.com's link. About two clicks later, the user is actually taken to the record. Here are the steps I use to make this process more efficient. I put them here to provide some fodder for discussion to see if there are better techniques or a better methodology. Documenting a Burial Fact. 1. Click on the Ancestry.com's Find A Grave match. This opens the match record. 2. Click Merge - Accept/modify the information to be merged. The reason I want this information merged is to save the link to the Ancestry.com record. That way I never have to search for it again. 3. After the merge, I go to the Source record and make any changes to the source-citation. 4. I use the View Online link to open the Ancestry.com record and I use its link to go to the Find A Grave memorial record because I want to capture and store the actual URL address in the new Web URL field. 5. The problem is this address is very long and complicated. So I wanted some way to shorten the URL. 6. I could use TinyURL but decided on another approach. I copy the memorial number to the clipboard. I then use the Find A Grave search window to perform a new search using the memorial ID. This provides the shortest and most efficient address possible. So I copy the new address and paste it into the Source-citation Web URL field. This provides me with two ways to get to the burial record in the future. I would appreciate any additional ideas or techniques anyone are using. BJ On 1/26/2014 5:47 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Been able to do that for a while now. Unfortunately most of them were ones I made, but have found a few new ones so I now know where they are buried when I didn't before. > > Annie in Minnesota > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeanne Stanis <[email protected]> > To: FTM-tech List <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 3:36 pm > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Find A Grave > > > Whoa! 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Nancy, The features to being in Find-A-Grave information into FTM2011 already exists.  That is not a FTM2014 'new' feature. the Web Clipping feature has been around for a while. I have been doing it for a number of years. Russ   ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: Nancy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Find A Grave Thanks, BJ.  I have FTM 2011.  Find A Grave matching may be enough to make me upgrade.  Does anyone know if there will be an FTM 2015? Nancy On 1/26/2014 2:56 PM, BJ wrote: > I think  you are asking whether the Find A Grave matching is available > only in FTM 2014?  The answer is no.  The Find A Grave matching appeared > about 8 months ago.  I was using FTM 2012 at that time. > > It seems that Ancestry.com has reached an agreement with Find A Grave to > be able to search the Find A Grave data base and generate a link to any > names which are matched.  It is similar to their links to RootsWeb's > obituary data base. > > ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message