okay, good sound advice. Thanks Kirsten. Barton On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote: > Barton: > > Since PAF and FTM apparently won't do what you want, you might check > out Roots Magic and Legacy. I know Legacy has more reports and > options than I've ever had the time or energy to experiment with. > Either developer should be willing to tell you whether or not you can > get the result you're looking for by inquiring before you buy. Legacy > does have a free version but I'm not sure whether it includes all the > possible report features. I don't know what the case is with Roots > Magic. > > Kirsten > > -----Original Message----- From: Barton Lewis > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 6:07 PM > To: 'Kirsten Bowman' ; 'Web Roots' > Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Sources and Citations > > Thanks for your reply, Kirsten. In PAF, an "event" is simply the > rubric > under which the source(s) for birth, death, marriage and burial are > entered; > you can add events such as residence or military service and identify > a > source or sources to verify same. As for notes, I tend to agree with > you; a > source should be entered within a field which identifies what kind of > "event" it corroborates (as this applies to PAF). I'd like to publish > a > book documenting one of my lines by generating a register report in > FTM. > The downside is that a discursive narrative about a particular > individual > can not then appear (what's entered in PAF under "Notes"). Only > source > citations for particular "events" appear. I don't really want to > retype a > record of thousands of descendants of an ancestor just to have this > kind of > narrative included, but I also would like this option along with full > citations for data. If anyone knows of a software program which > generates a > register report but allows you flexibility to enter narrative I'd > appreciate > hearing from you. > > Thanks, > > Barton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kirsten Bowman [mailto:viking@rvi.net] > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 12:42 PM > To: BARTON LEWIS; Web Roots > Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Sources and Citations > > Barton: > > My limited knowledge about this situation says that data in some > fields will > > transfer seamlessly via GEDCOM and some will get put into odd spots or > lost > altogether depending on what you're going from and to. I'm thinking > that > perhaps both PAF and FTM recognize the Notes tag in the GEDCOM (which > is > probably "NOTE") but Ancestry doesn't. I don't know the solution to > your > problem, but I suspect that only suggestions from people who are > following > the same export/import process as you will work in your case. > > Personally, I don't use Notes or Events. Everything gets turned into > a > source citation with detail added. I post from Legacy to RootsWeb > WorldConnect and dislike the way WorldConnect places all Events toward > the > top of the person's listing above the family information. It took a > lot of > tinkering with test trees to get an arrangement at RootsWeb that I > liked and > > you may have to do something along the same line. Or you may decide > that > the format you've already established in PAF/FTM is more important to > you > than the way it appears at Ancestry. > > Kirsten > > -----Original Message----- From: BARTON LEWIS > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 12:05 PM > To: Web Roots > Subject: [ROOTS-L] Sources and Citations > > hello list, this query pertains to sources and citations. I use PAF > as > my genealogical software. If I import my GEDCOM into FTM and generate > a > register report, if I've entered information under "Notes," this data > appears on the report. But data from this section does not appear if > I > import my GEDCOM into Ancestry for that particular person. > > Therefore, I'm now entering data as a source for an "event" in PAF and > this appears in the register report as well as on Ancestry. This is > straightforward for births, deaths and marriages. But what if my > ancestor is mentioned in a book as a witness to a will? What kind of > "event" is that? I am using "residence" but I guess it's possible > that > a person witnessed a document even though s/he was not a resident of > where the document was executed. If my ancestor was listed as > appearing > on a grand jury, I think "residence" in most all cases would be the > appropriate event for that citation. > > Entering this type of data under "Notes" in PAF was nice because it > all > prints out right under the person's name in the register report, and > it > doesn't really matter what kind of event it was. Using headings like > "LAND," "DEATH," "RESIDENCE" or "MISCELLANEOUS" and then listing the > data underneath covered it all. But entering the data as individual > sources is nice too, since it appears on my Ancestry tree. So I guess > my questions are: how would you handle entering the data and what > kind > of event would you use for data such as jury lists and witnesseing or > appearing as principal or secondary parties in deeds, etc. > > Thanks, > > Barton > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to > roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > > the subject and the body of the message

I have FTM but didn't know what PAF was so I Googled PAF and found "PAF for MAC" so I took a look and saw even more software listed that I had not heard of. I'm currently using Reunion 9 and found there is a Reunion 10 so I ordered it. I have FTM, GEDitCOMII, and Reunion 9 for Mac and I've tried to keep all three up to date with my tree because I haven't fully made up my mind which I want to stay with. Then I have The Master Genealogist Gold version from when I used Windows so it has gone unused for years. I'm not LDS and not far enough along to be concerned about writing a report but I do want software that is quick to navigate and easy to enter new people. I liked FTM for the way it synced with Ancestry.com but some things were really clunky to enter, such as a second wife or husband and more children. So I'm currently using Reunion 9 again. I have notes all over the place and have no idea how they will be treated when the time comes for me to commit this to writing. I'm sure everyone has their favorite software but I'd like to know why it is the favorite. Gale Gorman Houston On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:15 PM, BARTON LEWIS wrote: okay, good sound advice. Thanks Kirsten. Barton On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote: > Barton: > > Since PAF and FTM apparently won't do what you want, you might check > out Roots Magic and Legacy. I know Legacy has more reports and > options than I've ever had the time or energy to experiment with. > Either developer should be willing to tell you whether or not you can > get the result you're looking for by inquiring before you buy. Legacy > does have a free version but I'm not sure whether it includes all the > possible report features. I don't know what the case is with Roots > Magic. > > Kirsten >