Genealogy Chat

Yes - I have such common names in my tree and then have to trawl through 100's of US records janey

I dont think you can, it would be handy though wouldnt it ???Come on Heather where are you another £5 on its way

HI 'H' Hope your ok!!! As you know I have bought FTM 2006 and have finally loaded it on my Mac and started using it. I read your thread with interest and am still getiing use toFTM but I tried the search (I think)!!! LOL How do you stop all the USA records coming up?

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Blimey, that seems good value. Dont bother getting the one with the cds - its info you probably dont need and can get elsewhere. Check out the my-history website for a comparison chart, but just the standard one will do you or the deluxe. I think I got the deluxe - it has a charting companion - I havent used that yet! I just checked and my-history have my one for £25 so yours sounds a good buy.

Ancestry are emailing me offering FTM 2006 for $19.95 (£10.78)ish. I have not as yet been able to establish which package this is. There are at least seven different packages starting with a Programme disc £20.65 upto £59+ including other CD's. Is this a good buy or is it better to purchase it from S & N? Margaret N

I have the 2005 and can also do the websearch its fantastic spent all this evening finding new info, but I may update to the 2006 one later this year if its easy to transfer my stuff over.

Marie the 2006 is very good as you can do the websearch and other things;; so as far as Im concerned it is very good;; Babs

Just opened the packet after all this time and says Starter Pack so guess I have to buy the full version. Considering doing this as I am fed up with PAF. Thanks,. Margaret N

Well to be honest Margaret, I think for a quid it must be just a trial version. Does it not say anything on the packaging.

When I joined Ancestry last year I paid a £1.00 for a CD of FTM. Is this a full programme or just a taster? Have any of you had the email from Ancestry with an offer for FTM + a magazine. Is this the same version. Margaret N

Just to confirm peeps Viewing internet Web sites - Glen and I have now looked at each others and we were well satisfied.

All that stomping will play havoc with your turnips Glen. And anyway, I have to admit to being the Cuckoo in a Sparrows nest of my family - Gawd knows why they all had the s-a genes when I got the sturdy Viking ones. So I am in absolute agreement Glen, small men rule! (or so Napoleon, Churchill, Cromwell, Hitler, Mussolini,Caesar etc. said!)

Little stature!Little Stature!!!!! Good things come in small packages,that's what i always say anyhow. (stomps off in a huff) Glen

Oh yee of little faith and equally little stature! When you do your homepage Glen, they give you an url - so you type in your website url and bingo! (though I must say you can quite often get an unavailable for some reason when you try it ). I give my addy to any genuine person who contacts me about shared ancestry. For a while you have closed access which is good, cos it gives you time to make sure there is nothing on there you dont want seen. There is an automatic mailing list for you to enter persons you want the site to be sent to. After a couple of months, I noticed I was getting people contact me through doing a search engine search for a particular surname and they had found my site. I have my 'not cold' mail addy on the front page as that filters spam and stuff so I dont get a million viagra ads going to the mail box. So I guess if you wanted to look at someone elses home page, you either ask them for the addy, or they add you to the mailing list for it or you could try a google for a particular surname and hope that it turfs out that persons home page? Glen, send me your email addy (I dont think I have it?) and we will have a trial run with my home page?

Ok then If you have a homepage you can easily access it,but how do you access other users homepages? I have put a few photographs onto mine,but how would i search for anything (my homepage or someone else) if for example i were to visit a friend or rellie and use a different PC. Glen

No Babs, Im useless, I just fumble my way through and often dont remember how I did it when I have done it! I rely on people like Peter who seems to be a ftm whiz and some of the others on here.

Hehe Heather;;; I'm sure your on commision from FTM;; you must have sold loads onto it now, but it is really good, Your getting quite a teacher arnt you ;;;;? Babs

Sue, honestly its easy - if your program has the facility. On the 2005/6 versions (the only ones Ive had), you just bung in a writable cd into the coffee cup holder tray, go to your FTM program, click on back up and then to cd and thats it, you sit there and it tells you its done and the disc comes out and you put it somewhere safe, in case the worse should happen and the puter fails. And to treble check, I also use the family home page facility on there - (gawd the boys were impressed when I said Id made a web site!!) Again, you just click on create homepage and the program does it all for you - and you have a website on the internet with your family history.

Now you are being really clever!!!! I expect someone in the family can help - after raising their eyes to heaven again!!! Sue