Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: > I have a set of old CDs from way back when I used FTM that consists of > marriage indexes for many states. I don't remember exactly how they > were used, but I think they could be used without actually having FTM > installed. You need the Family Archive Viewer download from http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/abtffiv.html > And I've been using Ancestry, but their search engine is so poor that > I get MANY ridiculous hits, like looking for births in the 1820's and > getting people in the 1900's. That's what you may get with Ancestry new search. Use old search and exact for exact results. Point to Search, click Search All Records, click Go To Old Search top right. Old search is way better than new search! Trevor Rix

Trevor Try Find My Past far superior indexes and they are free to search - you only pay for the images .... Regards Bill -----Original Message----- From: gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Trevor Rix Sent: 22 December 2012 10:55 To: gencmp@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Using old FTM CD data set Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: > I have a set of old CDs from way back when I used FTM that consists of > marriage indexes for many states. I don't remember exactly how they > were used, but I think they could be used without actually having FTM > installed. You need the Family Archive Viewer download from http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/abtffiv.html > And I've been using Ancestry, but their search engine is so poor that > I get MANY ridiculous hits, like looking for births in the 1820's and > getting people in the 1900's. That's what you may get with Ancestry new search. Use old search and exact for exact results. Point to Search, click Search All Records, click Go To Old Search top right. Old search is way better than new search! Trevor Rix ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCMP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message