Hi, I don't see how, by numbering people by generation, it can work! I have some very big families in my family history where the wife has married and started her family aged 17 and is still having babies into her forties, with the younger children hardly even meeting the elder children, also one man who married three times with the third wife being younger than his eldest children, her children were still of the same generation but a thirty year age difference between some of them. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: [email protected] GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Usher via" <[email protected]> To: "Ron Lomax" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [G] FTM/Organisation Advice Needed Please > I'm similar stage to you, I have my family trees on ancestry, I have also > started building up excel spreadsheets which have "events" bmd and census > mostly, and trying to work out way of checking off who in the excel ss > relate to people in the family trees. My one name study is in the > miniscule category by size, so lots of it I can do by memory, for example > I have established a direct relationship with everyone called Isaac > gilhome ever recorded, but I have another significant family of gilhome so > where I have not been able to prove a relationship, it is only inferred by > geographical closeness. When I started with paper records, I tried to give > everyone a Code based on a generation, so I was m1, my parents were L1 &2 > but that didn't seem to help > > Chris U > >> On 9 Jun 2016, at 10:48, Ron Lomax via <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I am relatively new to the concept of a one name study, but have been an >> amateur genealogist for many years. I would like to pick people's brains >> concerning how to organise and record the study. According to the WIKI, >> the >> most favoured family tree software is FTM, which I also use. I have >> upwards >> of forty sourced family trees. If I keep them in separate FTM files, then >> finding someone is a nightmare, as is checking for duplicates which may >> link >> two trees. If I merge all the trees into one FTM file, (some 7000 >> people), >> it is almost impossible to locate a particular person, even with birth >> and >> death years, due to the 19th century spawning hundreds of Williams, >> James', >> Johns and Charles'. I have to use trial and error, and if I do not have >> either a definite birth or death date, then I may go through each one and >> not know whether I have him recorded or not. FTM does not give me the >> option >> of showing places in the index. I thought of using the FTM Person ID with >> a >> prefix representing the tree the person comes from, but this is >> overwritten >> if you merge all the trees. There is no report within FTM which shows BMD >> dates AND place of birth/death, so I cannot export a list from each tree >> and combine them in an Excel table. I cannot help feeling that, if there >> are >> many people using FTM, I am either missing something or expecting too >> much. >> I have considered switching from FTM, but I like the interface better >> than >> either Legacy or RM, and would prefer to stick with it if I can find a >> way >> round my issues. Has anyone else found a solution to this problem, or >> have I >> to bite the bullet and use more appropriate software? Any advice would be >> much appreciated. Many thanks >> >> Ron Lomax >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > 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