Hi Karen,
In FTM you can pick and choose people to go into your file. When I want to be sure I get only the information I want I create a new family file and import only the people I want. This gives me an opportunity to review it before I make a GEDCOM to upload. When importing to a new file you have a choice of just the individual, the individual and his ancestors, or the ancestors and his descendants. Using the latter two choices will speed up the process of filling the file. I would leave his name as he is shown in records and show his father's name as it is shown. Most all of us have name changes in our family. Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Spring, TX Formerly of Epping, New Hampshire Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha Ponta Delgada, and Achada Grande, Sao Miguel, Acores From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Huffman Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:19 PM To: Azores Google Group Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Uploading Gedcom question I just got awesome information from Joao Ventura and now have info on my grandfather back to my gr gr gr grandparents!!! The name my grandfather used to come over with and used is different than the name he was born with. He is naturalized as Evaristo Rodrigues Medeiros. That is also on his death certificate. However Joao did some research. His birth and baptism in Sao Pedro, Ponta Delgada he is Evaristo Rodrigues ROQUE!! I want to upload my GEDCOM but I don't want to use my Ancestry.com tree. That tree has other families tied into it. Lots of people not needed for this tree. I also have Family Tree Maker. I did not share the info from Ancestry to this tree. Will it be enough information if I just input the parents, grandparents and so forth without putting in siblings and more current/living people? I am curious as to how many people are needed in your tree to be able to tie in with other people? Another question I have is do I leave my grandfather in my tree with the name we knew him as or the one he was born with? All U.S. documents are with the name we knew. Does it make sense to just switch it at my gr grandfather? His name is Antonio Rodrigues Roque. His father is Jose Rodrigues Roque. Then it switches to just Roque Rodrigues. Thanks for reading and replying! Karen :) -- Hugs and Blessings from Karen Medeiros-Huffman in Paso Robles, CA USA Searching for Rodrigues-Medeiros and Cabral in Sao Miguel, Santos, Silva and Costa in Terceira Acores. Searching for Anderson and Swanson in Sweden and Schaeffer and Schommer in Germany. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
