FTM2012 - Places hint

While cleaning up my place names, to get them into the new hierarchical format, I was having screen issues. Moving from place to place, the screen would jump all around before I could get to where I wanted to go.

As it turns out, I was trying to get around too quickly. What I discovered is that IF I select the 'next' place first, then expand that location, for example, the screen worked quickly and smoothly.

For example: I want to look at my locations in California. In the past, I would just scroll down to USA and immediately click on the Right Pointing arrow to the left of USA. BUT if I first Select (hi-light) USA, THEN click on the Arrow, it works smoothly.

 I had not been selecting USA first.

After clicking on the Arrow, to expand California, again, it works much smoother.

I am showing that arrow above. Selecting California, then the arrow works.

Lesson Learned: Select First, then expand.

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington

FTM2012 (704) - Map Feature

While working on my Place Names, I realized a feature that I hadn't seen or used before. I don't know when it was added, but I really like it.

With the new Place Format, I selected a Town, then at the Top of the Center Panel, Left end, there is a pull down menu, where I selected Cemeteries.

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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington

Duplicate Place Names

When doing a Web Merge, there are times when the Place Name provided by Ancestry.com do NOT match the Place Name Authority in FTM2012 (and earlier versions). So, you end up with Duplicate Place Names, one of which is NOT resolved.

Go to the Place Workspace and here is what you will see:

 You will see the duplicate, the first one has the Unresolved ICON, the other does not. Selecting the "resolved" place name, you will see the GPS information in the upper right area. What needs to be done is to Replace the Unresolved Place Name with the Resolved Place Name.

Select the Unresolved Place Name (with the ICON) and Right Click on that Place Name and  window will appear. Select Replace With Other Place Name ....

The next window will open, where the Unresolved and the Resolved Place Name, and others from the Place Name list are displayed, and select the Resolved Place Name. This is Usually the one with the Country Name, in this case USA.

A "Are you sure" window will appear, where you would select, Yes.

 The Place Name is Resolved and the GPS information is now shown.

 Lesson Learned: Clean Up after a Web Merge is suggested

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File Sharing and Brick Walls - Part 14 - Maps

So, I continue to track William Knapp, in hopes of finding his parents.

The more I look, the question list gets longer.

Decided to use the Map feature, within the Places Workspace, and selecting a Person, rather than a Place to track William's Journey. Consider the Map:

The record that have have found, shows that he was born in Dutchess County, New York. After considering that what is not Putnam county was also Dutchess County when he was born. It wasn't until 1812 that Putnam County was created.

Looking at where he was born, with the little detail that we have, and where he died, it's a pretty straight line between Dutchess County and Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey. In fact, there is a road that pretty much connects those two places. Along that road (Rt94) you'll pass through Goshen, New York on your way to Newton. Having driven that road, stopped at a couple of cemeteries, I found Knapp's along the way, with several large families in and around Goshen, part of my wife's ancestry.

But, now let's through in where William Knapp was Married.

 Again, this was generated by FTM2012, just added the boxes to see the three points a little clearer.  By car today, that would be about a 5 hour trip, mostly interstate. Remembering this is between 1775 and 1804, and adding a "what if" here, What IF "Dutchess County" was really closed to Poughkeepsie and there was more "commercial" boat traffic on the Hudson River connecting Albany, north of or upstream from Poughkeepsie down to New York City, or over to Newark or another New Jersey landing, what does that do?

That changed the "distance" issue that was in my mind, back into reality. Another mode of transportation, the Hudson River, makes the trip so much easier.

OK, so far, just now need to find the reason for the move, remembering that he was a Shoemaker.

Lesson Learned: Use the Map feature to see the migration path of the person, or people you are researching. But, keep history in mind. I was stuck in the reality of today (car) verses the mode of transportation of the late 1700's in mind.


Copyright © 2011 by H R Worthington

File Sharing and Brick Walls - Part 3a - Why Map

Perhaps a quick look at the Map feature will shed some light as to why this Place Name feature may be important. After the last post, I went to the Place Workspace, and selected Person, in the Left Hand Panel, drop down menu, to see the journey of the Home Person, based on data that we have so far.

The Right Hand Panel, shows the Facts we have for this person. The Birth (1775) is in Dutchess County, New York (upper right end of line), it is believed that he was married (1804) in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the bottom and mid point in the line, and Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey. (1856).

The brick wall, is to locate the parents of our Home Person.  Just this view, might raise some questions, not with the data, but why and how. Is there a reason? Far to early to tell, but there may be a hint in to looking into this movement of our Home Person.

There is another bit of information, not in this file, but this Surname shows up in a location that is almost a direct line between the starting point and ending point that this map shows. Today, there is almost a  single road that connects these two end points. So, visually, this points out that the movement over time, of the home person, may help with the Brick Wall.

Copyright © 2011 by H R Worthington

Civil War Map

As a follow up to: Military History in FTM2012 I wanted to map out the 2nd Regiment Infantry, Maryland during the Civil War. I have the dates and locations of the Battles that they fought in, and wanted to get an idea how far this Infantry traveled.

The first step is to go to the Places Workspace. In the Left Hand (LH) Panel, under Places, there are two choices. 1) Places, and 2) Person. The Places is the default settings and will show on the map where the place is that is selected in the LH Panel. In this case, I want to see where the "person" had events (or Facts). So, in the pull down menu, Person is selected.

When Person is selected I scrolled down to Maryland, 2nd Infantry in the LH Panel. In the Right Hand (RH) Panel, is a list of Places that are listed with Facts for that person. In this case, none of the boxes were selected, as normally Birth, Marriage, and Death Facts are checked, so I put a check mark in all of the Military Facts that I had inputted into the file, based on the Regimental History.

 

The above doesn't look very good, because it was zoomed in pretty close. Using the Minus (-) sign in the upper left of the Center Panel, I zoomed out to get the map I wanted.

The squares indicate the locations of the various battles that they fought in.

Copyright © 2011 by H R Worthington