Thanks, John, That worked. I wonder how it got out of line. Tom On 5/6/2015 7:15 PM, John Donaldson wrote: > Look carefully > > Simply drag the editing panel back out by selecting the vertical dots about > the vertical middle of the screen on the right hand side > > > John D > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Tom Herson via > Sent: Thursday, 7 May 2015 9:01 AM > To: FTM-Tech > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Lost Items To include > > Somehow I have managed to lose the ability to select Items To Include, > Fonts, etc. when designing reports in the Publish section. Those options > usually appear in a panel to the right of the report I am working on. > That panel isn't displayed now. > > What have I done? > >

The problem below seems to have something to do with the report's preview window. I can just barely see a prtion of the Items To Include icon but I don't know how to adjust the window so that I can see and use ALL of the panel at the right. Any suggestions? Tom On 5/6/2015 7:01 PM, Tom Herson via wrote: > Somehow I have managed to lose the ability to select Items To Include, > Fonts, etc. when designing reports in the Publish section. Those options > usually appear in a panel to the right of the report I am working on. > That panel isn't displayed now. > > What have I done? > > Tom Herson > ithaca, NY > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Somehow I have managed to lose the ability to select Items To Include, Fonts, etc. when designing reports in the Publish section. Those options usually appear in a panel to the right of the report I am working on. That panel isn't displayed now. What have I done? Tom Herson ithaca, NY

Tom, Sorry, that should be Relationship TAB on the individual's Person View. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net From: H R Worthington via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: Tom Herson <therson@twcny.rr.com>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Relationships Tom, Yes, on the Relationship Top for the siblings, as you did for your person. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net       From: Tom Herson via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: FTM-Tech <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:01 AM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Relationships   My great-grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1856 somewhere between the age of 4 and 6 years old. I do not know who his parents were, but I have reason to believe that his father's surname was either Gelshinan, Gelchenor or some variation of the spelling. He eventually shows up in a census with the John and Margaret Cunningham Herson family. He and some of his descendanys used both the Herson and Gelchenor surnae at vaiours times. I have designated Unknoen Gelchenor and Unknown Unknown as his bio;ogical parents. I have designated hus relationship, as a child in the Heson family, as Other. His relationship with the biological children of the Herson is shown as Brother  or Sister Is there a way to change the sibling's relationships to Other? I am using the latest version of Ftm2014 with Windows 8.1 Thanks. Tom Herson Ithaca, NY ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message   ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Tom, Yes, on the Relationship Top for the siblings, as you did for your person. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net From: Tom Herson via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: FTM-Tech <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:01 AM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Relationships My great-grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1856 somewhere between the age of 4 and 6 years old. I do not know who his parents were, but I have reason to believe that his father's surname was either Gelshinan, Gelchenor or some variation of the spelling. He eventually shows up in a census with the John and Margaret Cunningham Herson family. He and some of his descendanys used both the Herson and Gelchenor surnae at vaiours times. I have designated Unknoen Gelchenor and Unknown Unknown as his bio;ogical parents. I have designated hus relationship, as a child in the Heson family, as Other. His relationship with the biological children of the Herson is shown as Brother  or Sister Is there a way to change the sibling's relationships to Other? I am using the latest version of Ftm2014 with Windows 8.1 Thanks. Tom Herson Ithaca, NY ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

But there is no drop down box to change Siblings relationship. Only for parents, Spouses and children. On 5/6/2015 11:08 AM, H R Worthington via wrote: > Tom, > Sorry, that should be Relationship TAB on the individual's Person View. > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > From: H R Worthington via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > To: Tom Herson <therson@twcny.rr.com>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Relationships > > Tom, > Yes, on the Relationship Top for the siblings, as you did for your person. > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > From: Tom Herson via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > To: FTM-Tech <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:01 AM > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Relationships > > My great-grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1856 somewhere between > the age of 4 and 6 years old. I do not know who his parents were, but I > have reason to believe that his father's surname was either Gelshinan, > Gelchenor or some variation of the spelling. He eventually shows up in a > census with the John and Margaret Cunningham Herson family. He and some > of his descendanys used both the Herson and Gelchenor surnae at vaiours > times. > > I have designated Unknoen Gelchenor and Unknown Unknown as his > bio;ogical parents. I have designated hus relationship, as a child in > the Heson family, as Other. > > His relationship with the biological children of the Herson is shown as > Brother or Sister > > Is there a way to change the sibling's relationships to Other? > > I am using the latest version of Ftm2014 with Windows 8.1 > > Thanks. > > Tom Herson > Ithaca, NY > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Russ, The is a drop down box to change relations for all relations except Siblings Tom On 5/6/2015 10:44 AM, H R Worthington wrote: > Tom, > > Yes, on the Relationship Top for the siblings, as you did for your person. > > Russ > ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Tom Herson via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > *To:* FTM-Tech <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:01 AM > *Subject:* [FTM-TECH] Relationships > > My great-grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1856 somewhere between > the age of 4 and 6 years old. I do not know who his parents were, but I > have reason to believe that his father's surname was either Gelshinan, > Gelchenor or some variation of the spelling. He eventually shows up in a > census with the John and Margaret Cunningham Herson family. He and some > of his descendanys used both the Herson and Gelchenor surnae at vaiours > times. > > I have designated Unknoen Gelchenor and Unknown Unknown as his > bio;ogical parents. I have designated hus relationship, as a child in > the Heson family, as Other. > > His relationship with the biological children of the Herson is shown as > Brother or Sister > > Is there a way to change the sibling's relationships to Other? > > I am using the latest version of Ftm2014 with Windows 8.1 > > Thanks. > > Tom Herson > Ithaca, NY > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com <mailto:FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com> > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > >

My great-grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1856 somewhere between the age of 4 and 6 years old. I do not know who his parents were, but I have reason to believe that his father's surname was either Gelshinan, Gelchenor or some variation of the spelling. He eventually shows up in a census with the John and Margaret Cunningham Herson family. He and some of his descendanys used both the Herson and Gelchenor surnae at vaiours times. I have designated Unknoen Gelchenor and Unknown Unknown as his bio;ogical parents. I have designated hus relationship, as a child in the Heson family, as Other. His relationship with the biological children of the Herson is shown as Brother or Sister Is there a way to change the sibling's relationships to Other? I am using the latest version of Ftm2014 with Windows 8.1 Thanks. Tom Herson Ithaca, NY

Ken, WHERE are you seeing the 3 children where there shouldn't be any children? To resolve this, DETACH the 3 Children from the Wrong parent. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net From: Ken Schroeder via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 11:02 PM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Need Help For Friend A man showed up at our local Genealogy Club  with FTM problem and I could not fix his issue. He had FTM 2012 version 21.0.723 on a Windows 7 laptop. He had 485 people in his tree of which two people had this problem described below. Problem: In real life the husband had two marriages, one with no children and the other marriage had three children. However, both marriages in FTM had the three children attached to them and could not be eliminated from the real childless marriage. There were no doubles of the children in the People Index. Fix Trial: 1) Ran Compact File and reduced file size by 54% ... obvious to me some linking problems might exist. Problem remained. 2) Detached a child from the real childless family. That appeared to fix the problem for that child except the child was now "an island". 3) Deleted the "island child" but it also deleted the child in the "correct family". 4) Added the child back into the "correct family", but it added the child to both families. Any suggestions on how to fix this issue?                         ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, blended family is in FTM 2012 Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus  == -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary via Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 6:03 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Need Help For Friend Was the blended family view available in 2012? I don't remember. If it was, is that the view that you're seeing? On 5/5/2015 6:01 AM, H R Worthington via wrote: > Ken, > WHERE are you seeing the 3 children where there shouldn't be any children? > To resolve this, DETACH the 3 Children from the Wrong parent. > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > From: Ken Schroeder via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > To: "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 11:02 PM > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Need Help For Friend > > A man showed up at our local Genealogy Club with FTM problem and I could not fix his issue. He had FTM 2012 version 21.0.723 on a Windows 7 laptop. He had 485 people in his tree of which two people had this problem described below. > Problem: > In real life the husband had two marriages, one with no children and the other marriage had three children. However, both marriages in FTM had the three children attached to them and could not be eliminated from the real childless marriage. There were no doubles of the children in the People Index. > Fix Trial: > 1) Ran Compact File and reduced file size by 54% ... obvious to me some linking problems might exist. Problem remained. > 2) Detached a child from the real childless family. That appeared to fix the problem for that child except the child was now "an island". > 3) Deleted the "island child" but it also deleted the child in the "correct family". > 4) Added the child back into the "correct family", but it added the child to both families. > > Any suggestions on how to fix this issue? > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Was the blended family view available in 2012? I don't remember. If it was, is that the view that you're seeing? On 5/5/2015 6:01 AM, H R Worthington via wrote: > Ken, > WHERE are you seeing the 3 children where there shouldn't be any children? > To resolve this, DETACH the 3 Children from the Wrong parent. > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > From: Ken Schroeder via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > To: "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 11:02 PM > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Need Help For Friend > > A man showed up at our local Genealogy Club with FTM problem and I could not fix his issue. He had FTM 2012 version 21.0.723 on a Windows 7 laptop. He had 485 people in his tree of which two people had this problem described below. > Problem: > In real life the husband had two marriages, one with no children and the other marriage had three children. However, both marriages in FTM had the three children attached to them and could not be eliminated from the real childless marriage. There were no doubles of the children in the People Index. > Fix Trial: > 1) Ran Compact File and reduced file size by 54% ... obvious to me some linking problems might exist. Problem remained. > 2) Detached a child from the real childless family. That appeared to fix the problem for that child except the child was now "an island". > 3) Deleted the "island child" but it also deleted the child in the "correct family". > 4) Added the child back into the "correct family", but it added the child to both families. > > Any suggestions on how to fix this issue? > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I would try this first: Select one of the "misplaced" children. Go to the People > Person workspace and select the Relationship tab. Verify the relationships of this child to its parents, and that there is no relationship to the stepmother. Do the same for each of the other children. It might also help to check the relationship tab for the father and both wives also. Correct as needed. If the children are shown as being the step-children of the childless wife, they will show up as you describe. If the above doesn't work, come back to the list and we'll give it another whack. Judy in Ocala > On May 4, 2015, at 11:02 PM, Ken Schroeder via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > A man showed up at our local Genealogy Club with FTM problem and I could not fix his issue. He had FTM 2012 version 21.0.723 on a Windows 7 laptop. He had 485 people in his tree of which two people had this problem described below. > Problem: > In real life the husband had two marriages, one with no children and the other marriage had three children. However, both marriages in FTM had the three children attached to them and could not be eliminated from the real childless marriage. There were no doubles of the children in the People Index. > Fix Trial: > 1) Ran Compact File and reduced file size by 54% ... obvious to me some linking problems might exist. Problem remained. > 2) Detached a child from the real childless family. That appeared to fix the problem for that child except the child was now "an island". > 3) Deleted the "island child" but it also deleted the child in the "correct family". > 4) Added the child back into the "correct family", but it added the child to both families. > > Any suggestions on how to fix this issue? > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

A man showed up at our local Genealogy Club with FTM problem and I could not fix his issue. He had FTM 2012 version 21.0.723 on a Windows 7 laptop. He had 485 people in his tree of which two people had this problem described below. Problem: In real life the husband had two marriages, one with no children and the other marriage had three children. However, both marriages in FTM had the three children attached to them and could not be eliminated from the real childless marriage. There were no doubles of the children in the People Index. Fix Trial: 1) Ran Compact File and reduced file size by 54% ... obvious to me some linking problems might exist. Problem remained. 2) Detached a child from the real childless family. That appeared to fix the problem for that child except the child was now "an island". 3) Deleted the "island child" but it also deleted the child in the "correct family". 4) Added the child back into the "correct family", but it added the child to both families. Any suggestions on how to fix this issue?

Good hint John D -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary via Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015 9:37 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Is there a way to create a report ofspouselessrelationships You can also see if you can filter the list of people. Under the "Other" category in Filter there is a field "Spouse Count". I couldn't manage to get it to work with Spouse Count = 0 but had more success by including all people and then filtering out where the spouse count is less than 1. This anomaly may be due to the fact that the spouse count field has no data at all and is only initialised after there is a spouse. There is no option to specify that spouse count doesn't exist. Rosemary

There is no specific report however if you run a standard marriage report, spouseless relationships are evident by a 'gap' in the spouse column of the report, and you have to visually scan through the report to see them Once you know what you are looking for it is quite easy, however the developers have been requested to provide capability in the custom report to do the job correctly Or better still prevent it from happening in the first place John D -- Pat Ricci 122 Demont Ave E #356 Little Canada MN 55117 651/766/8482 ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You can also see if you can filter the list of people. Under the "Other" category in Filter there is a field "Spouse Count". I couldn't manage to get it to work with Spouse Count = 0 but had more success by including all people and then filtering out where the spouse count is less than 1. This anomaly may be due to the fact that the spouse count field has no data at all and is only initialised after there is a spouse. There is no option to specify that spouse count doesn't exist. Rosemary On 4/16/2015 6:27 PM, John Donaldson via wrote: > There is no specific report however if you run a standard marriage report, > spouseless relationships are evident by a 'gap' in the spouse column of the > report, and you have to visually scan through the report to see them > > Once you know what you are looking for it is quite easy, however the > developers have been requested to provide capability in the custom report to > do the job correctly > > Or better still prevent it from happening in the first place > > John D > > -- > Pat Ricci > 122 Demont Ave E #356 > Little Canada MN 55117 > 651/766/8482 > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

-- Pat Ricci 122 Demont Ave E #356 Little Canada MN 55117 651/766/8482

Mary, when you're going through the steps of a web merge, FTM gives you the option of deleting a fact (because you already have the exact same information) but keeping this new source. This will keep exact duplicates from happening, and will add the new source to the fact you already have. That's how to avoid most duplicates in the future. Judy in Ocala > On Apr 8, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Mary D. Taffet via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > If rewolf4's experience is anything like mine, I find that using the > merge feature as a result of a leaf hint will frequently lead to two > events that are exact duplicates of each other. I was also looking for > a way to pinpoint the duplicate facts that needed to be merged together, > so am happy to learn of Garnet's approach which may very well work for > me -- though it may not help for duplicate name facts. > > When I merge duplicate facts, it's either the same source but different > citations (primarily census records), or the fact merge ends up merging > different sources for the same fact which are separate in the tree > together into a single fact with multiple sources. I've started doing > that from time to time after using the merge due to leaf hints that I > find to be acceptable as being the same person after evaluating them. > > -- Mary > > > >> On 4/8/2015 4:16 PM, H R Worthington via wrote: >> rewolf4, >> Are you saying that you only want ONE Dates of Birth? >> I don't know about your research, but I rarely get the SAME Birth Fact Information from the different records I look at. >> Do you Cite your sources? >> Russ ___________________________ >> >> Mailto:rworthington@att.net >> From: rewolf4 via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> >> To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:33 PM >> Subject: [FTM-TECH] Finding duplicate facts in database >> >> I am using FTM 2014 with 7500 persons in the database. I want to clean >> up the database and have noticed that some persons have duplicate >> entries for the same fact ie: two dates of birth, two 1920 Census facts, >> two dates of death etc. I ran the Documented Facts report and it was >> 1990 pages long. It showed the information I wanted but every time I >> left the report to correct the error, FTM would take 10 minutes to >> recreate the report even though I was working from a saved report. Is >> there any way to create a report that shows only facts that are duplicated? > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

rewolf4, Are you saying that you only want ONE Dates of Birth? I don't know about your research, but I rarely get the SAME Birth Fact Information from the different records I look at. Do you Cite your sources? Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net From: rewolf4 via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:33 PM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Finding duplicate facts in database I am using FTM 2014 with 7500 persons in the database.  I want to clean up the database and have noticed that some persons have duplicate entries for the same fact ie: two dates of birth, two 1920 Census facts, two dates of death etc.  I ran the Documented Facts report and it was 1990 pages long.  It showed the information I wanted but every time I left the report to correct the error, FTM would take 10 minutes to recreate the report even though I was working from a saved report.  Is there any way to create a report that shows only facts that are duplicated?

If rewolf4's experience is anything like mine, I find that using the merge feature as a result of a leaf hint will frequently lead to two events that are exact duplicates of each other. I was also looking for a way to pinpoint the duplicate facts that needed to be merged together, so am happy to learn of Garnet's approach which may very well work for me -- though it may not help for duplicate name facts. When I merge duplicate facts, it's either the same source but different citations (primarily census records), or the fact merge ends up merging different sources for the same fact which are separate in the tree together into a single fact with multiple sources. I've started doing that from time to time after using the merge due to leaf hints that I find to be acceptable as being the same person after evaluating them. -- Mary On 4/8/2015 4:16 PM, H R Worthington via wrote: > rewolf4, > Are you saying that you only want ONE Dates of Birth? > I don't know about your research, but I rarely get the SAME Birth Fact Information from the different records I look at. > Do you Cite your sources? > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > From: rewolf4 via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:33 PM > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Finding duplicate facts in database > > I am using FTM 2014 with 7500 persons in the database. I want to clean > up the database and have noticed that some persons have duplicate > entries for the same fact ie: two dates of birth, two 1920 Census facts, > two dates of death etc. I ran the Documented Facts report and it was > 1990 pages long. It showed the information I wanted but every time I > left the report to correct the error, FTM would take 10 minutes to > recreate the report even though I was working from a saved report. Is > there any way to create a report that shows only facts that are duplicated?