Family Tree Maker 16 question on exporting

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Mark Fields

Family Tree Maker 16 question on exporting

Legg inn av Mark Fields » 09 okt 2007 00:48:00

I have a 2nd cousin who will be purchasing FTM 16 which is what I use.

How can I extract the portion of the file she would be needing without
sending the whole file?

My file is m/l 8,000 persons but only 300 or so are pertinent to her line.

I know there must be a way to do it, including "everything" like notes,
source tags, etc. but I need some help on how to do it. I can't find
anything in the FTM help section or else I don't know how to look it up.

Mark

Nick Bassard

Re: Family Tree Maker 16 question on exporting

Legg inn av Nick Bassard » 09 okt 2007 03:22:59

On the menubar,

Mouseclick: File;

Mouseclick: Export File;

Mouseclick: Selected Individuals;

Select a name from the left pane...
choose if you want to export just that person, just the ancestors of
person, or just the descendants of such.




Personally, I stopped using FTM 16, using the new FTM 2008 is much
better imho. It does have a learning curve to it but once you get her
going it is great.





Mark Fields wrote:
I have a 2nd cousin who will be purchasing FTM 16 which is what I use.

How can I extract the portion of the file she would be needing without
sending the whole file?

My file is m/l 8,000 persons but only 300 or so are pertinent to her line.

I know there must be a way to do it, including "everything" like notes,
source tags, etc. but I need some help on how to do it. I can't find
anything in the FTM help section or else I don't know how to look it up.

Mark


Lesley Robertson

Re: Family Tree Maker 16 question on exporting

Legg inn av Lesley Robertson » 09 okt 2007 09:34:29

"Nick Bassard" <_@_._> wrote in message news:7CBOi.9968$vS1.6767@trndny08...
On the menubar,

Mouseclick: File;

Mouseclick: Export File;

Mouseclick: Selected Individuals;

Select a name from the left pane...
choose if you want to export just that person, just the ancestors of
person, or just the descendants of such.


Or alternatively set up a family tree on screen showing the branch you want
to send. Then use [export file] then [export individuals in tree].

Personally, I stopped using FTM 16, using the new FTM 2008 is much better
imho. It does have a learning curve to it but once you get her going it
is great.

As long as you don't need the features they've removed - many of which were

the reason I was using the programme.
Lesley Robertson

Mark Fields

Re: Family Tree Maker 16 question on exporting

Legg inn av Mark Fields » 12 okt 2007 02:25:23

Thanks.

It had been a long time since I did this and could not find anything in the
help area about how to select the individuals.

I used FTM clear back to about 1994. I don't remember the version but I
think it ran under Windows 3.1

I just bought version 16 a few months ago after no upgrades since about
version 8 or 9. I have corresponded with a second cousin for many years and
she is buying FTM. I didn't know much about FTM 2008 so I told her I could
not recommend one over the other.

My goal was to export all common ancestors and descendants, so I picked our
common great grandparents and selected all their ancestors and descendants.
Often though I research a bit horizontally, for example I try to find all
siblings of an ancestor and sometimes the sibling descendants so I hope I
got everyone common in the file.

Mark




"Nick Bassard" <_@_._> wrote in message news:7CBOi.9968$vS1.6767@trndny08...
On the menubar,

Mouseclick: File;

Mouseclick: Export File;

Mouseclick: Selected Individuals;

Select a name from the left pane...
choose if you want to export just that person, just the ancestors of
person, or just the descendants of such.




Personally, I stopped using FTM 16, using the new FTM 2008 is much better
imho. It does have a learning curve to it but once you get her going it
is great.





Mark Fields wrote:
I have a 2nd cousin who will be purchasing FTM 16 which is what I use.

How can I extract the portion of the file she would be needing without
sending the whole file?

My file is m/l 8,000 persons but only 300 or so are pertinent to her
line.

I know there must be a way to do it, including "everything" like notes,
source tags, etc. but I need some help on how to do it. I can't find
anything in the FTM help section or else I don't know how to look it up.

Mark

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