The Secret to Standardized Source Citation Ratings in Family Tree Maker 2012 and Mac 2

Using standardized source citation ratings in Family Tree Maker can help you make solid conclusions about facts. You’ve probably heard of original versus derivative sources, primary versus secondary information, and direct versus indirect evidence. That’s what FTM calls standardized source citation ratings. They also add a rating for clarity of the information–clear versus marginal. And both the Mac and 2012 versions support standardized ratings.

Unfortunately, the feature’s isn’t used by default. The source rating stars are there for you to set. The standard ratings are a bit hidden in the source rating window. The bonus is that by using the standard ratings, the number of stars is set automagically!
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Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 and 2012 Feature Comparison

Wondering what’s in Family Tree Maker 2012 and not in Family Tree Maker for Mac 2? I’ve got the answer for you. I took the Family Tree Maker columns from the Mac Genealogy Software Feature Comparison and PC Genealogy Software Feature Comparison tables. I think this will answer your question about what’s missing from Family [...]

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Source Citation Find and Replace in Reunion for Mac

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Finding and replacing text in your family file is irregularly needed, but can save you time when you can use it. Turning over this tedious task to Reunion makes more family history research time available to you. That is, provided you carefully define your search criteria and backup your Reunion family file first! Reunion has [...]

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How to Tab Backward Between Fields in Reunion for Mac

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Sometimes you tab beyond the field you were after, right? Do you know how to go back without your hands leaving the keyboard? If so, great! No need to read this quick tip. You can easily tab backward by holding down the shift key then pressing the tab key. It’s that simple–shift-tab. It should work [...]

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How to Backup A Reunion Family File

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Are you regularly backing up your Reunion family files? Making a backup is important for more than protecting your precious research in the event of hard drive failures and catastrophes. Be sure to make a copy of your family file before making significant changes to your family file. Reunion for Mac’s creator, Leister Productions, even [...]

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Family Tree Maker 2012 Overview Video

The accompanying video will show you the major elements of Family Tree Maker 2012. At its most basic, Family Tree Maker consists of the following workspaces. Plan People Places Media Sources Publish Web Search The workspaces group related features. They are made up of tabbed views and panels that you use to plan, research, analyze, [...]

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Index of Individuals Report in Family Tree Maker 2012

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It’s hard to believe that a report of all individuals in your tree wasn’t already in Family Tree Maker! Ancestry has corrected this oversight in FTM 2012. Now you can print a report listing the persons in your tree. It can be all of them, but doesn’t have to be. You can make a report [...]

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Add an Existing Person as a Spouse in Family Tree Maker

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Adding a spouse in genealogy software Family Tree Maker is intuitive when it’s a person you haven’t yet added to your tree. What’s not intuitive is how to connect two people who are already in your tree. Take heart though; it’s easy once you know the trick. The term for linking people in Family Tree [...]

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How to Chart a Direct Line of Descent in Family Tree Maker 2012

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It’s sometimes helpful to have a chart showing an ancestor and only those descendants in a direct line of descent to another person. There is a descendant chart in genealogy software Family Tree Maker, but before FTM 2012 it included all of the descendants of the selected ancestor. Family Tree Maker 2012 introduced an option [...]

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Family Tree Maker 2012 Blended Family View

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One of the new features in Family Tree Maker 2012 will help you see the relationship of children to parents at a glance. It’s called blended family view. Blended family view is activated by clickinh a new button above the children list on the person view in FTM 2012. When on, the list of children [...]

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