Saturday, August 30, 2008

Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Summary of Posts

Rather than put a list of all of the Using FamilyTreeMaker2008 posts at the end of each post, I'm going to put a link to each of them in this post, and then update this post when I add a new post. That will save bandwidth and perhaps make the separate posts more readable.

Here are the posts concerning Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 (updated to 3 September 2008):

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 1: Loading. Installing the program and uploading an existing database file.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 2: Exploring. Looking around the uploaded database file to see what the different views look like.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 3: The Menus. Most of the menus were itemized and described.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 4: Starting a New Tree. I started a new tree and added some people demonstrating the program options to do this.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 5: Adding a Source. I added sources to the Facts that I previously entered.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 6: Adding Children to a Family. I added children to a family.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 7: The Person Menu. I described the items in the Person menu and attached a spouse to a person.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 8: Finding a Person in the database. I described three ways to Find a person.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 9: Places I. I explored the vagaries of the Places icon.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 10: Places II. The different map types are discussed and displayed.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 11: Places III. The method to Resolve many places with standardized place names is explored.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 12: Charts I. Introduction to Charts and examples of pedigree and descendants charts.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 13: Charts II. Examples of Hourglass, Relationships and Vertical Pedigree Charts.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 14: Charts III. Examples of large wall charts created by FTM 2008.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 15: Genealogy Reports. Description and display of Register (descendant) and Ahnentafel (ancestor) Reports.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 16: Person Reports. Description and display of 5 different reports, including Individual Reports and Custom Reports.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 17: Relationship Reports. Description and display of Family Group Sheet, Kinship Report, Marriage Report, Parentage Report, and Outline Descendant Report.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 18: Place Usage Reports. Description and display of the Place Usage report.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 19: Source Reports. Description and display of the Source Usage reports.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 20: Adding Media I. How to add media (photos, audio, video, etc.), demonstrating adding, captioning and describing photographs.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 21: Adding Media II. How to link pictures to persons and more.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 22: Web Search I. How to use Web Search to obtain Ancestry.com images and data.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 23: Web Search II. How to merge the Web Search results into your family tree database.

* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 24: Web Search III. How to use Web Search to obtain Rootsweb website data into FTM 2008.

* Using Family Tree Maker 2008 - Post 25: Web Search IV. How to use the Web Clipping feature to add text from a web site to a person's Notes.

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