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? Exchanging data - FTM supports GED-COM files (the standard family tree file for-mat)but not multimedia links within them. Uncheck вЂњDisplay only preferred dates/locations.вЂќ In the right panel, click on Special Section: Facts, and then click on the Options button. Hint: To include all facts, display a family group sheet, go to the Contents menu and select Items to Include. To top it off, facts appear in alphabetical order, and you canвЂ™t print them in chronological order. By default, FTMвЂ™s family group sheets show only one fact of each type, such as census data, even though you might have found the person in several census years. Most other programs automatically include all events in a personвЂ™s life on these reports, and list those events by date, creating a chronology from birth to death. Then there are FTMвЂ™s family group sheets, probably the worst youвЂ™ll find in any genealogy software. Unlike most genealogy software, FTM canвЂ™t print вЂњcascadingвЂќ pedigree charts, which are numbered and say, for instance, вЂњPerson 1 on this chart is the same as person 16 on chart 1.вЂќ ? Printing charts - Family group sheets and letter-size pedigree charts, probably the two most important genealogy reports, are poorly designed. It also ignores correct child and spouse orders when you import a GEDCOM file. FTM has a clumsy system for reordering children and no way to reorder spouses.

? Ordering spouses and children - If you donвЂ™t have dates of birth or marriage, but know the order in which children were born, itвЂ™s nice to be able to specify the correct order.

On the downside, FTM still lacks several basic features that have been standard in most genealogy programs for years: ? Web merge wizard - If you find a match for your forebear on, click Web Merge to add the info to your family file. When I searched for John French, born in 1790 at Pittsfield, Mass., the first match was my John French, in the 1850 census of Pittsfield - a new find for me. FTM displays the results in a format that makes them easy to scan for the right person, even if youвЂ™re looking for a common name.

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(FTM parent company owns the software isnвЂ™t affiliated with this magazine.) Just click on the Web Search button beside a name.

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? Web search - FTM 2005 ably searches вЂ™s huge data collections, most of which require a subscription to see the full results. With the impressive new pedigree view, you can hold the mouse cursor over a name, and a window pops up showing the personвЂ™s dates and places of birth and death. ? Pedigree view - Amazingly, FTM went through 10 major upgrades over 14 years and never had a pedigree view - a key component of most genealogy programs. Instead of awkwardly navigating through your family tree with tabs, now you click on buttons to edit personal details or go to a childвЂ™s family view. ? Family view - The feeble old family view showing only two generations and no more than four children on screen at a time has been replaced with a superb new layout showing three generations and up to eight children without scrolling. These new-and-improved properties also impressed us: Strong photo-editing capabilities help you prepare images for use in reports and charts. Or you can choose from several pre-designed templates with well-coordinated graphical elements.

Family Tree Templates and Relationship ChartsДЇTM still lets you design and print a wide assortment of graphical family trees, all with your choice of backgrounds, borders, fonts and colors.

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