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From: nick <>
Subject: [FTST] Re: FTST-D Digest V02 #3
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:32:55 +0000
References: <200201101100.g0AB0TE08255@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Thanks for your comments, Steven
I'm not sure about (a): does that mean I can retain the <configuration>
of one chart and apply it to a new chart? It doesn't seem so
As to (b) yes, that helps, thanks; however FTST still thinks that there
is a box there so some of the text is left-aligned even when it is
totally inappropriate

Nick

> Nick,
> a) Although this is true *within* FTST, there is a very simple
> solution. Use DOS (or Explorer) to RENAME any chart you have generated.
> FTST will (re)create the default named charts if they do not exist. When
> you want to reuse one of your earlier charts, simply COPY that saved
> version back to the appropriate default chart name. For example, I have
> CHALL-A.rpt, BECKER-A.rpt, CHALL-D.rpt, BECKER-H.rpt, etc. When I need
> my CHALL family ancestral report, I copy CHALL-A.rpt to Ancestor
> Chart.rpt, when I need the BECKER family hourglass report, I copy
> BECKER-H.rpt to Hourglass Chart.rpt, etc.
> It isn't quite as convenient as having a list of all variations
> within the program as you have in TMG4, but it only adds a few seconds to
> the operation and prevents any changes to my configuration from becoming
> permanent unless I specifically save (RENAME) that version. I'm sure
> that TMG5 will give us the internal capability again along with all (and
> more?) text reports.
>
> b) But you can change the line color to white (or whatever
> background color you are using) so the box will seem invisible if all you
> want to do is eliminate the outline.
>
> StevenC
>
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>
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>
> Subject: [FTST] FTST FoxPro error
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 08:51:42 -0500
> From: "Sutton, Scot G." <>
> To:
>
> Since most everyone seems to have a warm fuzzy going for FTST and WG, let me
> say that I have an ongoing problem with FTST which WG has been unable to
> resolve.
>
> On 11/2/2001 I sent an e-mail to WhollyGenes Technical Support detailing a
> Microsoft Visual FoxPro error which was occurring while attempting to import
> my FTM6 file into FTST and preventing the import. They were very prompt in
> replying and requested that I send them the dataset, which I did.
>
> Well, it is now 1/9/2002, over 2 months after I sent my dataset to
> WhollyGenes. I have contacted WG Technical Support several times via email
> and phone and all they can tell me is that they have heard nothing back from
> the programmers and that they think that there is a problem with the new
> GenBridge module for FTST (which is apparently the same as that for TMG5)
> which cannot handle something in my FTM6 file. I have emailed Bob Velke
> several times about this issue and have yet to receive a single reply from
> him. Have I found a showstopper? I hate to burst peoples' bubbles, but to
> me, this is not prompt technical support. I can get this kind of support
> from FTM Tech Support staff. Even if everyone at WG took the entire week off
> for Thanksgiving and then 2 weeks off for the year end holidays (which I am
> sure they deserve), it would be nice to hear SOMETHING back from them
> occasionally so that I know whether and when I am going to be able to use
> FTST (and apparently TMG5) without having to reenter over 30000 individuals
> with accompanying documentation. If a single problem such as this cannot be
> resolved in a 2 month period (even with the holidays), I can't see TMG5
> being available any time in the foreseeable future.
>
> If anyone else is receiving a FoxPro Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005
> while trying to import their file into FTST, maybe we can get together and
> try to figure out what characteristic our files have in common so we can
> help get this problem resolved.
>
> Scot
>
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>
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>
> Subject: [FTST] Project explorer
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:57:23 -0500
> From: "Jerrod Carter" <>
> To:
>
> In the project explorer, it is possible to expand a person and show their
> spouses and children. I just noticed that if a person has a child from a
> person they did not marry, they don't show up when that person is expanded.
> Is this expected behaviour?
>
> Jerrod Carter
>
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>
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> Subject: Re: [FTST] Project explorer
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:46:30 -0600
> From: "Bob Wilson" <>
> To:
>
> Jerrod, look to see if it shows more than one spouse. Select the other
> spouse which may not even be named or married. I have more than one
> instance of this.
> Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerrod Carter" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:57 AM
> Subject: [FTST] Project explorer
>
> > In the project explorer, it is possible to expand a person and show their
> > spouses and children. I just noticed that if a person has a child from a
> > person they did not marry, they don't show up when that person is
> expanded.
> > Is this expected behaviour?
> >
> > Jerrod Carter
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records,
> go to:
> > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
> >
> >
>
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>
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> Subject: RE: [FTST] Project explorer
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:48:40 -0500
> From: "Jerrod Carter" <>
> To:
>
> I see two spouses, and they are the ones she married, but there is one more
> person she did not marry that is not listed, although they had a child
> together. Shows up properly in the family and tree views (3 spouses), just
> not on the project explorer.
>
> Jerrod
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Wilson [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:47 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [FTST] Project explorer
>
> Jerrod, look to see if it shows more than one spouse. Select the other
> spouse which may not even be named or married. I have more than one
> instance of this.
> Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerrod Carter" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:57 AM
> Subject: [FTST] Project explorer
>
> > In the project explorer, it is possible to expand a person and show their
> > spouses and children. I just noticed that if a person has a child from a
> > person they did not marry, they don't show up when that person is
> expanded.
> > Is this expected behaviour?
> >
> > Jerrod Carter
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records,
> go to:
> > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
> >
> >
>
> ==============================
> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go
> to:
> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
>
> ______________________________
>
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>
> Subject: [FTST] Re: Selecting data types in FTST
> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:11:59 +0000
> From: nick <>
> To:
>
> Can someone help, please? I have asked this before but annoyingly I
> have accidentally deleted the response over time. I am trying to set up
> a ancestor report in which both birth and baptism dates & places are
> printed. In the data type options I have thus chosen
> 1. Birth* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place and
> 2. Baptism* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place
> but for some reason the baptismal information is not showing.
>
> If I had chosen the data type
> Birth Group* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place,
> then I understand that only one would be selected, as each is in the
> same (Birth) group; however I cannot see why baptism is being left out
> using the two data types above. What have I done wrong?
>
> With thanks
> Nick Shelley
>
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>
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> Subject: [FTST] Very first impressions
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:19:06 +1200
> From: "Lorna McIntosh" <>
> To:
>
> I thought I'd let the dust die down, including xmas, and have finally loaded
> FTST to try it out.
>
> It's great being able to have a copy open and flip to/from my current
> project with the Master Place List open in FTST and check/find/fix the
> places in TMG.
>
> Sorry to see that you still cannot sort the picklist directly on more than
> one column.
>
> Looking forward to TMG5
>
> Lorna McIntosh
> Waikanae, 6454, NZ
> CAI Research Interests: BAIN/ GRAY/ TAYLOR/ MANSON; TAYLOR/ FINLAYSON/
> McDONALD; McADIE/ SINCLAIR/ ROSIE/ MANSON; GEORGESON; MILLER; MALCOLM;
> SUTHERLAND/KEITH/BAIN/McKENZIE;
> mailto: (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/
> databases LornaHenderson & LornaPotential)
>
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> Subject: Re: [FTST] Re: Selecting data types in FTST
> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:31:53 -0500
> From: Terry Reigel <>
> To:
>
> nick wrote:
>
> > Can someone help, please? I have asked this before but annoyingly I
> > have accidentally deleted the response over time. I am trying to set up
> > a ancestor report in which both birth and baptism dates & places are
> > printed. In the data type options I have thus chosen
> > 1. Birth* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place and
> > 2. Baptism* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place
> > but for some reason the baptismal information is not showing.
>
> By doing this you are specifying the _primary_ birth information, and also the _primary_ baptism information. Since birth and baptism are in the same group, only one or the other can be primary for any individual, and thus only on will show in the chart. They are in the same group because in some circumstances users do not have birth information and may chose to use the baptism info as a proxy.
>
> FTST does not allow specification of non-pirmary tags because there can be any number of them for any one person, and it would have no way to "know" which one to print.
>
> Unfortunately, the net result is that you cannot print both the birth and baptism info for the same person.
>
> Terry Reigel

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