I have been a FTM user since the very early day and this is my first upgrade since 2006 version... WOW... been so use to the older version this is going to take time getting use to finding my way this one, with so many changes, new screens views etc. back to school for me.... I had to upgrade as I bought a new laptop and my old version was just slightly out of date. :-) It loaded okay, loaded my old data base from backup with no errors which is good. I have been following the threads for years and have / will learn a lot from all the questions and answers being asked and given. I have chosen to ignore the resolve place names and will do this on an individual bases as recommended by most everyone and I also agree as to the reasons, My question: the "Description" field below the place name field, what is this for.? Thank you Desmond Researching: McDowell, Burke, Erwin, Riddick.

Hi Desmond, The Description field for a place name might be the name of a church, school, hospital, address (12345 Mina Street) - in short any information that provides more information about the specific location for the event. If you did the same as many of us did, you may have put that information prior to the town, county and state information, but the way the Place Name Authority works, it requires that only the town or city, county, state and country are in the Place Field and any other information in the Description field (except of course a date which would go into the date field!). This is so it can properly map out the locations in your database. It is a good idea to do these on an individual basis, as you have decided to do. Since this is your first experience with the new FTM version, you might be interested to know that there is the Companion Guide available from the Help menu which is an extensive guide explaining many of the features of FTM. It's in PDF format and can be saved to your computer or even printed out if you prefer. There are also Tutorials available from the Help menu as well. Enjoy working with FTM 2012 and of course any questions you have can be asked here on the list! Linda in Costa Rica Monroe County, New York Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys Monroe County, New York History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys -----Original Message----- From: Desmond McDowell Sent: Saturday, 22 October, 2011 9:41 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: [FTM-TECH] Just Loaded 2012 I have been a FTM user since the very early day and this is my first upgrade since 2006 version... WOW... been so use to the older version this is going to take time getting use to finding my way this one, with so many changes, new screens views etc. back to school for me.... I had to upgrade as I bought a new laptop and my old version was just slightly out of date. :-) It loaded okay, loaded my old data base from backup with no errors which is good. I have been following the threads for years and have / will learn a lot from all the questions and answers being asked and given. I have chosen to ignore the resolve place names and will do this on an individual bases as recommended by most everyone and I also agree as to the reasons, My question: the "Description" field below the place name field, what is this for.? Thank you Desmond Researching: McDowell, Burke, Erwin, Riddick.