Ancestry Family Tree - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Transgender / Trannsexual

gailireland72 — 2013-05-14 22:49:38Z

I have a t member of my family (F-M). How can I record his name and gender as of transition without a birthdate? I know his birth record has been changed now. Can I use "aka" with former name? Should I create an event "transitioned"? I use Legacy program. I appreciate your help.

Re: Deleting "UNKNOWN" Spouses

charleshenry70 — 2013-04-21 20:28:15Z

I find that adding a spouse any name and then deleting same usually works

Re: multiple spouses Must be a simole way to record

TonyCheal75 — 2013-04-20 16:05:17Z

It's not obvious to me - can you explain exactly where in simple terms

Re: multiple spouses Must be a simole way to record

bobjuch2 — 2013-04-19 16:31:23Z

There's a button that allows you to change the order. Sorry but I'm away from my computer that has AFT installed on it. It's pretty obvious.

multiple spouses Must be a simole way to record

wandafmyers — 2013-04-19 15:59:48Z

I posted my grandfather's first wife, no problems. When I typed in the info on the second wife, her name comes up as though she is the first spouse. Will someone please tell me how to type in multiple spouses in the correct order?

Re: Any way to search for a street in census?

ajsamuels — 2013-04-18 11:47:02Z

Findmypast has a facility to search the UK census by street name.

Re: Parental mess

bobjuch2 — 2013-04-16 21:01:57Z

When all else fails read the instructions. :P

Re: Parental mess

irene_mcgregor1 — 2013-04-16 19:29:45Z

Thanks for the help. In the cold light of day I resorted to the instruction manual and after only a few attemps I got it sorted.

Irene

Re: Parental mess

irene_mcgregor1 — 2013-04-15 20:35:09Z

Will I have to input him again? He is my 2x gretgrandfather and there are a lot of us attached to him.
thanks

Re: Parental mess

bobjuch2 — 2013-04-15 20:31:55Z

You can just removed him from the incorrect mother and add the correct one.

Parental mess

irene_mcgregor1 — 2013-04-15 20:12:26Z

Hello
Can anyone help please? I have a man who had two wives. My main character is the son of the man but of his second wife. My character has been in my tree a long time but when I tried to add his mother the wrong one was attached.

I am not prepared to delete my man because he is pivotal in my tree so do I need to delete all those above him and re-enter them or is there an easier way?

Thanks for any help
Irene

Re: Born with one Surname but adopted different Surname later

lgonzale67 — 2013-03-25 16:14:43Z

Put both in the surnames field.

Re: Double cousins

DSUpshaw — 2013-03-13 15:41:37Z

I have double first cousins in my tree. I am not sure what your question is but will attempt to answer. The only was to avoid having them in your tree 2 times is to check each name before you enter them but it may still happen.

If you have these people in your tree twice you can merge them. I start with the parents and then merge the children. The people will only be in your tree once but will show up on both lines in the tree.

Hope this helps.

Re: Splitting a tree

EHayden91 — 2013-03-11 21:49:46Z

You really should leave the tree togather cause spiltting it would only resalt in loosing your information to the other tree. It doesn't matter how big your tree gets there is enough room for all your ancesters to shair their stories with.

Re: Duplication of parents!!

bobjuch2 — 2013-03-11 17:58:53Z

Yes, you need to merge your duplicate people.

Duplication of parents!!

65hplane — 2013-03-11 16:55:03Z

My parents are first cousins and when I added my mother to my tree (my father was already on), I now have two mothers, two fathers and myself and my sisters also appear twice. Have I done something in the wrong order or that how first cousins appear when they marry?!

Any help gratefully received!

Andrea

Re: Shortcuts to reproducing part of one tree into another???

Smilebird — 2013-03-10 22:08:18Z

Makes sense. I'll give that a try. Thank you.

Re: Shortcuts to reproducing part of one tree into another???

bobjuch2 — 2013-03-10 22:01:21Z

Then you need to merge the duplicate people in your tree, not add new duplicates.

Re: Shortcuts to reproducing part of one tree into another???

Smilebird — 2013-03-10 21:34:09Z

Merge both trees? They are both already the same tree. There are lines in the tree that would be duplicates at a certain point, but the relationship might be off from the father's side and the mother's side.

I don't think I could merge a tree with itself??? I need something where I could highlight and copy part of one line and add it into the line after the connect on the other side just to save me the trouble of adding each name manually.

Re: Shortcuts to reproducing part of one tree into another???

bobjuch2 — 2013-03-10 21:00:19Z

You should merge both trees.

Shortcuts to reproducing part of one tree into another???

Smilebird — 2013-03-10 20:47:46Z

My mother and father both came from closely related ethnicity. At some places in both trees there are points where a certain ancestor or married couple are the same people. If I have one tree almost completed out, is there a way to copy and transfer a whole string of shared individuals to the other side of the tree. (Father and mother are both listed in the same tree).

Can I do this and keep the new relationships correct in the added tree information?

Re: Any way to search for a street in census?

barbarajfn — 2013-03-08 16:12:39Z

You might try us and uk postal directories. I found my ancestor in the 1841 Edinburgh postal directory. It even had a schedule of the postman's route so you could find street and then name. By browsing not indexed. Hope you might find some directory as helpful.

Re: Relationships

jw_taylor1 — 2013-03-05 06:34:52Z

Thank you. I will try that.

Since I first posted, I discovered what caused my second problem. I apparently deleted the person that linked us all together.

I have had some success by clicking on the given relationship, and in quite a few cases it has re-calculated and given the correct relationship. Some of this problem seems to have come from duplicate people in the branch, which I seem to have quite a problem with. Looking at the branch has really helped eliminate some of these problems. Some of the information I have downloaded has also caused problems, with, as an example, on person having two sets of parents. I have had to delete about 4 generations from one branch because of this problem. I still have over 5400 people in my tree, so lots of room for error. I will keep plugging away, before I take out another membership to straighten our the last of the problems.

Thanks for your input. I will definetly be trying it.

Wayne

Re: Relationships

Smilebird — 2013-03-05 06:21:00Z

Can't help you with your second problem, but if I have a problem with a relationship, I first run the button under the name on the overview page. It will give you a complete connection from that person to the home person. Use this as clue sheet to find where the problem may lie. A lot of these problems seem to come from second and third spouses not being loaded correctly for me.

Relationships

jw_taylor1 — 2013-02-28 05:47:03Z

I have encountered two similar problems. First, my uncle shows up only as husband of aunt, and that of course makes so many other relationships wrong. Now, rather than being a first cousin, the person is a nephew of husband of wife.

The second one is weird. I have a great grandmother. Her husband, parents, children etc all show as "no know relationship"

What on earth is happening,or, more than likely, what the he-- am I doing wrong?

Right now, I have a lot of people in my tree that aren't related to me!

Re: Changing mothers

sccond — 2013-02-11 23:44:30Z

Wasn't quite that easy,,Before I finally got it staighten out, I had real mother married to her stepdad, or something like that. Think it is ok now.

Thanks!

Re: Changing mothers

bobjuch2 — 2013-02-11 21:33:41Z

Just go to the person, unlink his mother (and father I suppose), and add the correct one.

Changing mothers

sccond — 2013-02-11 20:38:26Z

Hi - I'm not sure if this is where I should post this but here goes:
I just realized that the sister of someone in my tree is really his mother. How do I go about changing that? I don't want to have redo it all. Just want to make his mother different.

Thanks, Lisa

Re: Any way to search for a street in census?

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-02-11 07:07:43Z

True,but I know of no online census that can actually be searched by inputting a street address - and I believe it was that functionally that the original poster was asking about.

Re: Any way to search for a street in census?

Smilebird — 2013-02-11 06:52:28Z

I have no experience with UK census. The Federal Census for the U.S. usually has the street names written off to the left side or sometimes in the heading for the census sheet.

Re: Any way to search for a street in census?

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-02-10 19:26:03Z

AFAIK, there is no way to do what you want.

Any way to search for a street in census?

kworden99_ancestry — 2013-02-10 17:33:02Z

I'm trying to find my ancestors in the 1841 UK census; in 1851 they were at 66 Bedford St, Preston (Lancs UK), but name searches don't give me any believable matches. So I'd like to check the address but I don't see a way to actually search by street name. Is there one and I've missed it? Preston has something like 30 districts in this census so masses of images if I have to look through them all.

Thanks.

Re: Doubled Entries

bobjuch2 — 2013-02-03 17:45:48Z

It doesn't sound like you're using AFT, but it's fairly easy to check for duplicates and merge your data with AFT.

Re: Doubled Entries

kworden99_ancestry — 2013-02-03 15:58:21Z

Well I've managed to solve my problem.

The male parent had 2 spouses - both with children. While adding census data to one of the children from the 2nd wife it managed to add a link from one of the children of the 1st wife to the 2nd wife. So this child appeared to have sprung from both wives! I deleted the child and that fixed the tree.

Fortunately the problem child has no descendants in the tree at the moment so I could do the deletion with minimal impact.

Re: Doubled Entries

kworden99_ancestry — 2013-02-03 14:19:46Z

I have the same problem. One of my ancestors is now showing all the same children twice and some of them are showing the same children twice.

I had this problem once before and fixed it by deleting people until the problem went away. The trouble now is that the person I think is the problem is right in the middle of my tree and I hate to think what would happen if I delete him.

I think the problem happening when I was adding census data for one of his sisters and his name came up in the additional people list - but it didn't give me an option to say it wasn't a new person or to select an existing person.

Re: How to Create a Family Tree

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-01-31 20:42:35Z

You can create an online tree but...

You will find a stand alone genealogy program desirable for a couple of reasons, manipulating data and printing reports are the two biggest I can think of. Also, you don't have to be online to work on your genealogy.

Any software program will do- you aren't limited to Family Tree Maker. Some use FTM because it syncs with the online trees while others wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

If you decide to use a stand alone package try as many as you can before you buy- make sure the program you get it the one you like most- not the one most recommended.

Re: How to Create a Family Tree

MarkAyotte1 — 2013-01-31 20:12:52Z

Thanks for your insight. That's a good point.
So do you recommend buying Family Tree Maker to create a family tree or can I create it on Ancestry.com and not buy the software?
Is Family Tree Maker software necessary?

Re: How to Create a Family Tree

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-01-31 19:33:21Z

Ancestry.com is a website and provides online Member Trees.

Family Tree Maker is a stand alone genealogy program that runs on a computer that is owned by Ancestry and syncs with Member Trees on Ancestry.com

Ancestry Family Tree is an older software program Ancestry used to provide but no longer sells or distributes. It was replaced by Family Tree maker.

As to looking at/copying from other family trees... DON'T!
Do your own research from scratch- that is the only way you can be sure it is as correct as you can make it.

Looking at family trees is *NOT* doing genealogical research.

Re: How to Create a Family Tree

MarkAyotte1 — 2013-01-31 19:08:25Z

Could you explain a little more. I thought Ancestry. Com owns Family Tree Maker?

What about my second question regarding adding onto an existing family tree?

Thanks,

Re: How to Create a Family Tree

bobjuch2 — 2013-01-31 18:38:49Z

Sorry, we support the Ancestry Family Tree program here, not Ancestry.com or Family Tree Maker.

How to Create a Family Tree

MarkAyotte1 — 2013-01-31 18:32:53Z

Hi,

I am new to Ancestry.com and have lots to learn.
In order to create a family tree does one need to buy "Family Tree Maker" to create the tree and then upload it to Ancestry.com or can the tree be created in Ancestry.com directly?
Secondly I see a few public family trees that have members of my family. I don't personaly know the author. Can I use that tree as a starting point and somehow build upon it and save it with my own family name?

Thanks,
Mark

Doubled Entries

theflyingkitty — 2013-01-31 00:16:56Z

Somehow, my tree is showing the same entry twice quite often. I have went through and merged as much as possible, but my great grandmother still has the portrait of the same man stemming from her twice, and so forth for about 4 generations. It's the same entry showing up multiple times.

Any clues on where the issue is?

Re: How to share my family tree with relatives?

bobjuch2 — 2013-01-29 19:52:08Z

You're in the wrong place, we support eh AFT program here, but if you use Google Chrome for your browser instead of IE, it has a built-in PDF "printer". Just select what reports you want to print and select that "printer".

Re: How to share my family tree with relatives?

johntyner2001 — 2013-01-29 18:34:46Z

hi there, is there any way of saving the ancestry tree or family tree maker tree as a pdf file so i can email to my brother? he wants to pass it on to someone else who is coming to our house on friday. so i need it done asap if possible!
i have ftm 2009.
can i save ancestry tree as a pdf straight?
John Tyner in wicklow ireland

Re: Splitting a tree

bobjuch2 — 2013-01-26 00:57:00Z

Oops! You need to be in the FTM board, not AFT.

Re: Splitting a tree

sinta — 2013-01-25 22:28:44Z

I'm sorry...where is the advanced button? I'm using FTM2012.

Re: Splitting a tree

sinta — 2013-01-25 22:23:45Z

Excellent. I will try that, thank you!

Re: Splitting a tree

bobjuch2 — 2013-01-25 21:14:29Z

Yes, you can select the Advanced button, then select your husband's parents and then Select All Ancestral Related from the pull-down. You can the delete them all. If you want them to be in a separate tree, make a copy of the file and give it a new name first.

Re: Splitting a tree

sinta — 2013-01-25 17:41:18Z

I understand the reasons to keep a tree as one, regardless of it's size, but my husband and I are divorcing and I really DO want to split the one tree into two. IS there a relatively easy way to select only his side and save separately?

Tree View

Smilebird — 2012-12-30 04:38:47Z

All of a sudden when I view a new tree it opens in the "family" format. I prefer the "pedigree" format. Is there somewhere that I can change this to the default setting???