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Family Tree Maker Where to Find Info in Genealogy Database

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where I may find or I will find additional information about specific things like Fort Leavenworth there's a wiki Wikipedia website that talks about for Leavenworth. I like it have it I'd like to have this link in my database so I can go to it from within the database so this is the second use of the web links tab one for I can get go to websites. My family tree maker program I find interesting information like about a Civil War battle or how I did a blog post on Samuel or Vivian so that's the name of that tune and that's how that's . how I'm linking my family tree maker program to my blog post where I have documented some of the conflicting information that I have work through in in my blog post so not in my genealogy database now at some point in time. I may transcribed that blog post and put it into the notes for that person but in the meantime I've got it I've already written it up so why not use it so in that's my notion at the

Family Tree Maker History and Record Help

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I had a graphic that I put in there that that brick wall went down well the bottom line is as far as the records . That I've seen and I've been looking for this for a long time they probably died without a in a document that I found at the Maryland Archives he probably died without any children so that's. Why the brick wall came down because we believe that he died without any children but the cleat again the clue is that I have the blog post here down in the web links tab. FTM Records  I see it up here along with the facts how those two examples were onesies and twosies but I get another one here which I haven't done all the I haven't done the links yet but. I will do that and that is I have a cavalry unit that 11th cavalry you see down here these links are legs to web sites that have a history of since this is a Civil War unit I have history in information about all of the battles right in my database. I'm not gonna probably not going to do it

Family Tree Maker (FTM) History and Issue

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I want to make this link available online or not at the moment it is not because I have marked at private I may change my mind going forward. When this tree is online but at least in Family Tree Maker 2018  when I'm working on a personal I see the web address because I normally don't look at the web links tab but. I want to look because I've got it up here so because I normally work in a task menu or the research notes menu but I wanted something to wake me up that looked down here in the web links let me give you another example. Family Tree Maker Issue  I'm going to give the example of Samuel know Samuel if I go to Samuel I know who his parents are I believe and I know that he's been married but. I can't find any records on him but I did a lot of research trying to find who he was and I go to the people people workspace person view and there is a blog post and in that blog post. I'll bring it over so you can see what the black looks like

Family Tree Maker (FTM) Software History and Problems

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I can open up the blog that was created and I'm going to bring it up wrote it on the screen and here is the link that I put in to my blog and there's a link and and this is what I wrote up about this problem . That I have how I connected to these three people in my database they weren't in the database and I had a problem but how I solved that problem. I had already done my own research but I described how I resolved that problem in the blog post including citations on that census record and how I in fact resolved the problem that. Family Tree Maker 2018 Help I had and it took me and I wrote it up in the blog post now that blog that information in the blog is not in Family Tree Maker yet. I may or may not but what I did was put a link to that blog post in the web links tab and because I want to be able to find it again. I also created a web links the web address links to that blog post included and I included the citation so I can get to it I haven't

Family Tree Maker History Part - 2

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I thought about how what does that mean for me or what can I do about that and what I realized so when I did looking at my blog post. I have done a couple of I won't call it proof arguments but I have worked through some situations in my database but I didn't put the information in my database. I in fact did it in a blog post let me demonstrate that here I have a lady Vivian Howard Worthington and I was trying to make a connection between myself and a cousin that I made and I had their tree in my tree but. Family Tree Maker 2018 History  I couldn't figure out where they matched up because there was something wrong in one of the trees so I'm going to select her and go to the people person view and what I did is I put the web address to my blog post in two places I want to be able to see it as a fact and I have a custom fact that. I created called web address and I have in the web links tab at the bottom I have the name of the blog post and the web address

Family Tree Maker 2017 History Part - 1

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Hi this is cousin Russ a lot of blog posts that I've read and I'll talk about in a second but the blog posts. That I read offered a suggestion or I read it and added the suggestion that I wanted to implement myself and that is " how do I preserve my hat family history " blog post and or combine my blog post into my genealogy program the blog post will be in the comments for the blog post. History of Family Tree Maker  The blog is called parallax view and the the author of this is a friend of mine Tony Proctor but he subtitles his parallax view is a different view on things and he is has a different view on things but creates a lot of interesting thought at least for me. What I wanted to point out was that what he was talking about is preserving what we do and there's a I am fear part way down into blog post that talks about preserving our blog posts in as a way for us who do research. Have blogs to combine that with the research and that's what