Genealogy Chat

Thank you Ron, I understood that too - went into programme files - lots of red ones, lots of blue ones - HUNDREDS of ones with little yellow + green clog wheels on !!! Went to look in a blue one but it wouldn't open unless I saved it so I got 'scaried' and came out !!!! Don't like it in there, but at least I know things are backing up - Heaven help me if anything ever goes wrong and I have to go in there again to recover them !! Dea x

The FTM 'Tree icon' on the desktop is the original you downloaded. Once you have the program on your computor and up and running - here's how I have done mine for years. I make a folder called Genealogy in My Documents (or on a second drive 'D' if you have for which is safer because if your C drive goes down it does not affect your D drive.) In the Genealogy folder I make a new folder for each name I research and one for 'All branches' which is my main file. Inside each folder I make another new folder (s) for census', gedcoms I download from LDS, Word docs for notes etc. Family Tree makes 3 icons besides the Tree icon. One is a blue box which is the working file, one has a 'safe' on it which is a backup file and one is a box with the windows icon in it (no idea what for). When I have my FTM opened with all the branches on it I save it to the folder 'All branches' Any other files (ie downloaded gedcoms I am searching goes into the folder for the apprpriate name. FTM, when you hit 'File' and go to save it asks you to specify where you want it saved to - ie: C:/my documents/genealogy/all branches..or you can specify which folder to put it in. Note that if you download a gedcom from anywhere else - like LDS ,that being the last folder you used, will the first FTM opens. You have to go to My documents/genealogy and open the file you want to use. I download masses of gedcoms, especially from LDS, and all the census sheets and it makes finding them easy if you know where you saved them/ Having just one main file makes it easy to track all your hard work. Whe in doubt - click on the HELP files at the top of the page. That works for most things. Hope this isn't confusing. I will try to make out a step by step work sheet and you can message me for it.

thats so kind June I am going to go through this step by step and see how I get on thanks a lot

Wow, that IS organised Joan. I wish I could sort things like that.

I just wanted to say - I WISH I COULD BE LIKE JOAN. !!! I don't really understand what she said but I know she has got it sorted. Dea xXxx

she has made me feel very lazy I dont do any of that, 3 cheers for Joan , but I still have a problem tried to register my FTM thought I already had but cannot remember my password so clicked on that and they said an email would be sent with my new password been waiting but nothing how long does it take anybody ?????

I expect a nice young american gentleman is working on it right now val. You could always ring them I guess - its a freephone number.