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Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on November 6, 2009 at 8:38pm: Hi Bill, I was afraid of this.. I didn't run into this issue with RM3... and I was trying to see if I could change her over but with the number of printouts she makes doubling the paper is not good. I really like the east of working with 4. What kind of mess does it make to make a gedcom from 4 and use it for reports in 3? Can this be put before Bruce so he can 'fix' the issue. Thanks

Comment by Bill Bienia on November 6, 2009 at 8:16pm: Michael, there is no specific report for Lineage Societies. Are you looking for an ancestor report or a decendant report? Are you looking for a narrative type report, or a "chart" type report? Have you looked at the Lists, such as Ahnentafel or Descendants Lists. Perhaps the Ralationship Chart, with the boxes turned off. If you are looking for a narrative, you may have to generate a GEDCOM file with only those people who you want to include (with spouses), then go into the Fact Type List and set any fact you don't want included to No, don't include it.

Comment by Bill Bienia on November 6, 2009 at 7:57pm: Brenda, unfortunately, there is no option to put all the data and sources onto a single page. Data, sources, person index and place index are all placed on separate pages.

Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on November 6, 2009 at 7:14pm: Hi all, I have switched to RM4. In checking things out I see 'print a report' for family group sheet appears to use more pages. Example: page 1 half filled up; the next page has one line for documenting the source. Is there a way to get all of this on one page vs 2. It will consume way to many pages this way. Thanks Brenda

There are definitely some great new items in the software.

Comment by Michael Stills on November 6, 2009 at 11:17am: Hi Again, How can I generate a report for a lineage society? I have not found a lineage report. I only want to print the direct line and each individual's birth, marriage, death, and associated references if possible. - Thank you.

Comment by Michael Stills on October 21, 2009 at 5:48pm: Thanks for the Customized List instructions Bruce. I had a bit of a challenge until I discovered that I needed to do the following. Individual List (Reports > Lists > Individual List>People to Include (Select from List)>Mark People>Select People by Data fields. Now I can do lots of slicing and dicing of the info. I will enjoy this very much.

Comment by Bill Bienia on October 12, 2009 at 9:53pm: If you are using FTM2008/2009/2010, you will need to create a GEDCOM and import that into RM. Versions prior to FTM16 can be imported directly by RM without going through a GEDCOM file. Whichever way you do it, import the FTM data into an empty RM database and clean up the data - place names, people names, etc. - before bringing the data into your main database You can then copy (drag and drop) people from the FTM converted database into your master database. To copy family facts, you must drag both people in the fact at the same fact. BUT BACKUP your database before starting, and make sure you can open the backup without a problem.

There are those of us who would suggest that you bring up FTM and RM side by side and enter the data into RM without going through the import and merge step. This way is more tedious, but there is less issues with sorting out the merged data (RM creates a second fact if two facts (one in each database) exist rather than merging facts, and there can be linking problems.) You can also copy and paste text from one screen to the other, which can lessen the typing effort, particularly for Names, Notes and Sources.

Comment by Linda j. Skena-Walker on October 12, 2009 at 5:13pm: A year or two ago, I was suckered into giving FTM another try. I used it for 6-8 months and entered data. Sometimes I would open both programs, kinda a side-by-side comparison. I have since gone back to RM 3, and intend to upgrade to RM 4 soon. However, now I have data in FTM, but I don't know exactly what it is.
How can I combine the FTM file with RM 3 data?
Should I export a gedcom from FTM, and merge it with my RM 3 file.
Please give specific steps, as I have never merged any file into my file.

Linda

Comment by Bruce Buzbee on October 10, 2009 at 4:08pm: Michael, you can either do the Individual List (Reports > Lists > Individual List) or a custom report. In either case the trick is to select the criteria for the people you want to include.

1. Birth | Date | Is after | date1 AND Birth | Date | Is before | date2

2. Birth | Place | Equals (or Contains) | place

You can also do Reports > Lists > Place list, select a place and get a list of all events (not just birth events) which happened in that place.

Comment by Michael Stills on October 5, 2009 at 5:52pm: Customized Lists: I would like to do two things. 1. Print a list of people born between a specified date range and 2 Print a list of people born in a specified location. Is this possible?