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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] Help with mega-project manager
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:38:28 -0500
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Bob:

I opened my project with two datasets as well. My biggest desire was to
look at EVERYTHING about two people to determine if they were indeed the
same person, or more important, a son, brother, uncles of the person. Can
FTST do this?

I have my two datasets in the project .. one large (all know relatives)
~30,000 and the other only about 100 individuals that are the WELLS family
.. but, lots of birth, death, marriages, etc. and not sure how the all fit
together yet. I was hoping I could do this comparison (and later in 5.0
drop and drag) and merge (in 4,0d now) the 'found' relative into my
Ancestor database. I found the Project Manager that has the picklist type
of box with individual DB# but how can I view ALL the data for each person
side-by-side to make those hard decisions as to where the new guy fits?

I know that I have a lot of cleaning up to do and was in hopes that it would
help me identify people I need to go into TMGW to merge and where/why (don't
want to wait for 5.0 to drop and drag).

Can you tell me where to go from the Project Manager 'picklist' to view both
side-by-side?

A second question: I pulled both datasets into FTST from my backup files.
Do they maintain the same TMG ID as the FTST ID? (This will help in my
cleanup of 4.0d).

Bonita



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Velke" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FTST] Help with mega-project manager


David said:

>I had two datasets imported into one project and didn't know what to do
with
>them from there on!! I read into the Wholly Genes statement something that
>FTST just doesn't do!

What did you read into it that it doesn't do? You can import more than one
data set and see a combined alphabetical list of those people so that you
can see where there are similar names - but you don't have to merge them
together as you would with other programs. You can also color-code
according to which data set they came from and you can use the Project
Explorer to drill down through two lines of descent to compare them, one
above the other. You can also open two windows containing the same project
so that you can navigate them separately and compare two people (or two
families or two trees, etc.) side-by-side.

It has always been described as a read-only product (so you can't merge
data sets, etc., until TMG5). What else did you think is implied by the
statement below?

-Bob

> > > "- A meta-project manager
> > > Family Tree SuperTools allows the user to manage multiple independent
> >> data sets within the same project. View data sets from different
> researchers and/or
> > > different programs in one master alphabetical list without merging
them.
> >> Ideal for coordinating and comparing data with other researchers."



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