These are notes from a Family Tree Maker User.
With
FTM2017 and FTM2019 the blog posts will apply to both the PC and the Mac Versions of the programs. Any differences will be noted
Going to take a "road trip" to Pennsylvania to visit cemeteries where I know to have people buried there. How do I create a List of Cemeteries and who is buried in each? The trick starts with the use of the Historic Place Name feature [ Place detail (historical name, address church, cemetery, etc): ] in the Resolve Place Name screen. Here is the Cemetery Name: Birmingham-Lafayette Friends Meeting, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA This is the entry in the People Workspace, Person View
The Place Name is entered as listed above. In the Right Panel, with that Burial Fact Selected the Pencil "edit" ICON appears. That is to Resolve the Place Name.
Clicking on that brings up the Resolve Place Name Edit screen
Using the up pointing arrow, on the Left, the information to the first Comma, is moved to the upper field, "Place Detail", and the City, County, State, and Country are searched for and selected. This process takes full advantage of the Map feature. It shows where the cemetery is and who is buried there. But, I am going to the State, not just this cemetery, so I need a report.
Go to the Publish Workspace, Person Collection, Custom Report. Individuals to Include (on the right) and this pop up window appears. In the Find Individuals screen, FILTER IN => select ALL Facts and scroll down to Burial.
Now, in the field below Burial, select ANY DATA
and the default "Equals" changed to Exists. That mean anyone who had information in the Burial Fact will be in the list.
In my case, there are 642 entries.
I don't want everyone, I only want those in Pennsylvania.
I select the <= Filter Out, burial fact, select Place, Does not Contain Pennsylvania.
That gets me down to 246 people, buried in Pennsylvania. Still in the Publish Workspace, Select the Items to Include ICON>
which will open the items to include in the Report. I removed the Birth, Marriage, and Death Facts (the Red X) and added (Green +) Burial. The only information I want to Include only preferred Facts. I then selected the Burial FACT and only have a check mark in the Place and again the Include only preferred Facts
I want the report to be sorted by Cemetery. At the bottom of that panel is where the 1st Sort is by Burial Place then by name.
Where is a sample of what that report would look like.
Russ, When you add a source on the Ancestry side of a tree there is a field titled 'other information'. Do you know where or if this information shows up in FTM on the desktop?
Now, I don't work in my Ancestry Member Tree (AMT) so I had to try it out. Went to my AMT, selected an Individual's profile and in the Sources Column (Center) I selected Add, and Add Source
Was offered this Screen
Where I filled out 1. Source with "Test New Source" after selected "or create a new source" In 2. Citation, Detail required, I entered "Test New Source Citation", entered the date, entered "This is a test, Text Transcription", and added "Test Other Information" in the Other Information field. Yes, I know, not very original. I then went to look at what I had done. To my surprise, when I linked that citation to the sex Fact and selected it, my newly created Citation was NOT there.
So I clicked on Edit, in the Fact Name and there it was.
However, the Other Information Text is not present. Can't see it. But, that wasn't the question. Where is the "other information" when I sync to my Desktop computer.
Handling (almost) identical citations when available from multiple sources. Example: a citation was created (using a template) from a source that was originally found only on FamilySearch. Now Ancestry has the same information available, even using an identical database title (and gives a "hint" to it.) How do you recommend handling the "source" which could be argued is identical, although the channel to get to the source, and therefore the citation, is different.