Maria you can add a place for Godparents in Family Treemaker you just have to click on the Tab Person which is next to family and go to the far right where there is a + sign click on it and scroll to Godparents and okay and type parents names. Have you tried to compact your file already? That seems to help, I have 31,300 in my file and I have no problems if I compact the file occassionally. Just click on tools and click on compact. Hope this helsp
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Maria, out of curiosity, if you renumber people, are you talking about > the number that is automatically assigned to them as you enter in new > people? > > If that's the case, then what if you decide you want person 111 to be > number 10 now? What happens to the person who is already number 10? Do they > switch to being number 111? Or am I on the wrong track? > > It might not have any relevance, but in my program, Brother's Keeper, if I > want one of my own direct ancestors to have a lower number, I have to first > vacate the number by entering in a new person and then renaming the person > with that number. I just use X for something handy. Then I take that person > named X and rename them as my own ancestor. I attach them to the right > spouse, parents and children and their old number is now named X and I can > use that person as another person in another family. This way I never > "delete" a person and never have a false number of people in my database. I > usually keep "good" numbers that I want to save for my own ancestors named > X until I find an ancestor for that number. > > Since I don't use the other programs, this method might not be > understandable and a pure waste of time to try explaining it. :-) > > As for the size of your database, 2000 seems impossibly small to cause any > program to have problems. > I'm at over 240,000 people and over 98,000 marriages and it's as fast as > ever. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > ============================================= > Get ready for NFL Fantasy Football and join me in the newly created Azores > Genealogist League. Still looking for more participants. > Write me here for more info: [email protected] > ============================================= > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Genealogy Software > From: GS1138 <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, June 14, 2014 10:40 am > To: "Genealogy, Azores" <[email protected]> > > Sorry I wasn't clear. > Transcription field: A field where you can enter the transcribe > information that keeps it connected with the document. Some have a > description field which isn't really meant for adding the transcription. > I own the current version of Family Tree Maker. FTM is user friendly good > program, but limited (godparents and witness have to be added in > comments). I've out grown it. Also, once my tree went past 2000 > individual it started having hiccups, freezing, stop working and closing. > I was looking at the scrambled data, trying to see if I could fix it or > just rebuild. I'm finding the parish birth, marriage and deaths records > are now attached to other people or not connected to anyone. If no surname > was entered it move the given name to the surname field. It's going to be > faster and easier to just rebuild. Thankfully, I saved all my research and > data in different forms so it will just take time to get everything back to > where it was. > I just want to avoid doing this again and find a program that meets my > needs. > I've down loaded the 30 day trial of TMG and was just looking at Legacy > Reviews. RootsMagic doesn't import on-line sources or let you renumber > people. > Maria > > es <http://groups.google.com/group/azores>. > > -- > For 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." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
