I have followed this thread with interest. John, you have some great points and I agree with you that the user needs some method for tweaking the templates or at least generating and formatting some of his own. However, a decision was made some time ago that the program would attempt to encourage the less experienced users with some type of access to using ESM's guidelines. The 100 or so quick templates were selected and implemented. Some like them. Others use them and then there are a good many like me who sticks with the older default format. The ESM templates are useful only if you intend to create reports and charts with Endnotes. They then format the data is specific ways and use generally accepted formatting of the documentation structure. Since I don't intend to publish my tree and I don't create a lot of reports and trees with endnotes, I don't use the templates. I understand FTM's desire to provide guidance to the inexperienced user in which template to use, I find it very difficult to navigate; unfortunately, I haven't been able to devise a better way of making it easier. I think you will find that FTM has implemented ESM's templates and will not be changing them. BJ On 1/6/2014 3:50 PM, John Yates wrote: > Russ, > > Well, you seem to prefer to do things manually instead of computerizing > them. > > I prefer to computerize thing so I don't have to do them manually. > What if we carry this to the ridiculous limit: Why use computers at > all since we can do it all manually. > > Proper classification of things also has big payoffs down the road. How > do you think the Green Leaves got so smart? ;-) > > Smart sourcing opens up all kinds of opportunities in addition to > time saving in constructing tens of thousands of source references. > > John > > On 1/6/2014, 5:07 PM, H R Worthington wrote: >> John, >> >> And this is what a Reference Note might look like, using the FTM2014 Template for a City Dirctory: >> >> "U S City Directories, 1821-1989", Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com), accessed 07 May 2012; entry for Joseph Worrell Strode. Citing R. L. Polk & Co's - West Chester Directory 1923-24 (New York, New York; R. L. Polk & Co., 1923) Page 170. >> >> >> Russ >> > ********************************** > 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 >