John: I have also installed 2014 - how do I turn on the description field? Jack Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:39:20 +1100 From: "John Donaldson" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2014 To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It should work perfectly Install FTM 2014 and register it It should detect your FTM 2005 file and offer to convert a copy Of course a wise genealogist will always have a backup I suspect that when you get into it, you will have to do some work as a once off on Places but plenty of good tools in FTM I would also suggest that you turn on the Description field for at least Birth, Christening, Marriage, Death and Burial But it works well If you have a 64-bit Windows computer, FTM 2014 will install as 64-bit which significantly improves the speed , especially if you have more than 4GB of RAM John D -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PJK . Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2014 7:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2014 Well, I've bitten the bullet & ordered FTM 2014. It should be here in the next few days, so gird your loins & get ready to hear anguished wails coming your way from the Kent seaside !! :o) No doubt there will be questions & cries for help, especially as I have to try to get everything from FTM 2005 into FTM 2014 :o( Pat.xxx :o) A Maid of Kent http://peajaykayspatch.blogspot.com/ ." > .

John Go the People>Person View Select the Fact that you want to turn on the description field [say] Birth In the RH editing box click on Options Select Fact Properties Tick the radio button for Date/Place /Description Repeat for any other Facts, e.g. C, M, .D, B, etc Note you only have to do this once in any file for a particular Fact So turning on the description field for [say] a birth Fact in a file also turns it on for every other birth Fact and any new ones added Couple with resolving Place names and fixing improperly imported data from FTM 16 or earlier, (see a post I have just sent about the slash delimiter) the description field in invaluable John D -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Hope Sent: Friday, 24 January 2014 12:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FTM-TECH] FTM2014 John: I have also installed 2014 - how do I turn on the description field? Jack