I fully endorse Brians comments. FH has excellent tools for searching for relatives.."Pool" is a useful feature. If you go ahead with FH and load your current GEDCOM into FH it is well worth spending time studying their advice before starting. FH has very comprehensive facilities but I would say I have had quite a "learning curve" to go through to become familiar but it has been well forth the effort! I have found that FH provides excellent free support via its Forum which has got me out of a hole a couple of times. Regards John Coldwell 2172 On 9 June 2016 at 14:07, Brian Horridge via <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron > > I use Family Historian (FH) for my ONS where I have just over 7,000 > individuals in about 300 separate "trees" within the single FH file. > The reason I have so many trees is that I often find a group of people I > can connect together but not where they fit in the overall scheme of > things. In that case, I'd build a separate tree for them and then hope > that in the future I can find the missing link. FH has a "Pool" feature > where all individuals connected together in any way have the same pool > number and I have 300 "Pools". From this you can easily see which > "tree" an individual is connected to and related to. When I find the > missing link between 2 trees, FH will re-calculate the Pool number > automatically. > > FH also has an excellent "Query" facility whereby you can narrow down > the list of possible Williams etc. For example I can narrow it down by > surname, forename and father's forename (ie any William Smith whose > father is James). The queries are very flexible and easy to use and the > results layout can also be easily customised to suit your own needs. > > Like one of the the other replies, I keep my raw data / transcriptions > in excel spreadsheets but, when I've matched a specific event, I use the > FH ID to mark that individual's event. That way you can (slowly!!) tick > them off the unfound list. > > I appreciate that one's choice of software is very personal but it might > be worth downloading free demo versions to see how you get on with them > - I think all major software provides tester downloads. > > If you want more help / advice about Family Historian, by all means > contact me off-list. > > Brian > > > On 09/06/2016 10:48, Ron Lomax via 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 -- Prof John K Coldwell Aiming to build a worldwide history of Coldwell people. Please join in! Facebook: Coldwell Genealogy Group Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org/profiles/coldwell.html Coldwell & Couldwell surname information: www.coldwell.info

Ron, I'm also a keen Family Historian user, having used many of the other programs. I also keep my Trees separate on my PC. I have a TNG (TheNextGeneration) website where I upload all the Trees (the Guild can provide one for modest cost). The advantage of TNG is that whilst you upload the Trees separately (and replace them separately) TNG merges them into one database. This means that providing you are online, you can search all the trees simultaneously. Also useful to see if someone is in more than one Tree... Ken On 9 June 2016 at 14:32, John Keith Coldwell via <[email protected]> wrote: > I fully endorse Brians comments. FH has excellent tools for searching > for relatives.."Pool" is a useful feature. > If you go ahead with FH and load your current GEDCOM into FH it is > well worth spending time studying their advice before starting. > FH has very comprehensive facilities but I would say I have had quite > a "learning curve" to go through to become familiar but it has been > well forth the effort! > I have found that FH provides excellent free support via its Forum > which has got me out of a hole a couple of times. > > Regards > John Coldwell 2172 > > On 9 June 2016 at 14:07, Brian Horridge via <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ron >> >> I use Family Historian (FH) for my ONS where I have just over 7,000 >> individuals in about 300 separate "trees" within the single FH file. >> The reason I have so many trees is that I often find a group of people I >> can connect together but not where they fit in the overall scheme of >> things. In that case, I'd build a separate tree for them and then hope >> that in the future I can find the missing link. FH has a "Pool" feature >> where all individuals connected together in any way have the same pool >> number and I have 300 "Pools". From this you can easily see which >> "tree" an individual is connected to and related to. When I find the >> missing link between 2 trees, FH will re-calculate the Pool number >> automatically. >> >> FH also has an excellent "Query" facility whereby you can narrow down >> the list of possible Williams etc. For example I can narrow it down by >> surname, forename and father's forename (ie any William Smith whose >> father is James). The queries are very flexible and easy to use and the >> results layout can also be easily customised to suit your own needs. >> >> Like one of the the other replies, I keep my raw data / transcriptions >> in excel spreadsheets but, when I've matched a specific event, I use the >> FH ID to mark that individual's event. That way you can (slowly!!) tick >> them off the unfound list. >> >> I appreciate that one's choice of software is very personal but it might >> be worth downloading free demo versions to see how you get on with them >> - I think all major software provides tester downloads. >> >> If you want more help / advice about Family Historian, by all means >> contact me off-list. >> >> Brian >> >> >> On 09/06/2016 10:48, Ron Lomax via 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 > > > > -- > Prof John K Coldwell > Aiming to build a worldwide history of Coldwell people. Please join in! > Facebook: Coldwell Genealogy Group > Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org/profiles/coldwell.html > Coldwell & Couldwell surname information: www.coldwell.info > _____________________________________________ > > 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