Ron & Meryl If no one has already mentioned this - Have you tried FTM 'Custom report'? Wenda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 10 June 2016 08:00 To: [email protected] Subject: GOONS Digest, Vol 11, Issue 248 Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 19:19:47 +0100 From: "Merryl Wells" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [G] FTM/Organisation Advice Needed Please To: "Ron Lomax" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I've been playing with my FTM to see if there is any way of adding locations to dates in an index and the only thing I came up with is Maps. This shows me a map of USA - not where many of my ONS feature, need one primarily for England and Wales - is that possible? From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: [email protected] GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Lomax via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 10:48 AM Subject: [G] FTM/Organisation Advice Needed Please > 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 Message: 3 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:34:02 +0100 From: Christine Usher <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [G] FTM/Organisation Advice Needed Please To: Ron Lomax <[email protected]>, [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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