Tweet
Hi
Grateful if anyone can help. I hurtled into Ancestry.co.uk 12 months ago and built up quite a tree with connections to census etc. 1370 people (for wife and I).
Wanting to de-couple myself a little I now have FTM 09 and imported my Ancestry ged into it. This has 2 issues.
1. Though I've retained the source info I've lost the actual link to the right census image for each census/person. I sense I should resign myself to having to re-do every link for every census for each person. Or have I missed a quick way?
2. On Ancestry web my census enteries I identified as 'residence' with date , the location I used as full address house no, street, location and the description field I used for occupation and other interest points. This simplified the view. Seems this was wrong thing to do as now 99% of the imported GED in FTM is now flagged as unresolved places. Only solution seems to re-do every entry as Residence - date (of census) , place and use description field for number and street AND then insert a new fact for each person for each census attrributed to occupation. Thats one big ouch in terms of time! Any quicker fixes? Why isn't there a single fact that holds key census data of name, full address and occupaton. Seems silly. Also putting house number and street in desciption field of residence leaves entry looking weird with a '/' in between and the house n street coming after the town, county.
oh and one last thing ! - If I have an unresolved location in places. why can't I relocate the pin and say thats the place ?
I know - daft problems I've caused myself!
Expect answers are stop moaning and get typing !
Sigh.
All best
J
Grateful if anyone can help. I hurtled into Ancestry.co.uk 12 months ago and built up quite a tree with connections to census etc. 1370 people (for wife and I).
Wanting to de-couple myself a little I now have FTM 09 and imported my Ancestry ged into it. This has 2 issues.
1. Though I've retained the source info I've lost the actual link to the right census image for each census/person. I sense I should resign myself to having to re-do every link for every census for each person. Or have I missed a quick way?
2. On Ancestry web my census enteries I identified as 'residence' with date , the location I used as full address house no, street, location and the description field I used for occupation and other interest points. This simplified the view. Seems this was wrong thing to do as now 99% of the imported GED in FTM is now flagged as unresolved places. Only solution seems to re-do every entry as Residence - date (of census) , place and use description field for number and street AND then insert a new fact for each person for each census attrributed to occupation. Thats one big ouch in terms of time! Any quicker fixes? Why isn't there a single fact that holds key census data of name, full address and occupaton. Seems silly. Also putting house number and street in desciption field of residence leaves entry looking weird with a '/' in between and the house n street coming after the town, county.
oh and one last thing ! - If I have an unresolved location in places. why can't I relocate the pin and say thats the place ?
I know - daft problems I've caused myself!
Expect answers are stop moaning and get typing !
Sigh.
All best
J
Comment