FTM2014 - Places Workspace Views

This is a high level view of the Places Workspace and an example of how I use this Workspace



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FTM2014 - Place Names - Person Migration Path

I try to keep my Places in the proper format to take advantage of the Place Name Authority. The normal use of the Places Workspace is to help make consistent the location. (list by Place). There is a second way to use the Places Workspace, that is my Person. You can track a person based on the locations where they had an event (Fact).

This is an example of a Civil War Unit, where the dates and places of the battles they were involved in were documented.







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FTM2014 - How I resolve Place Names and handle an Address Fact

This is a follow up to the Resolve ALL video posted earlier.

FTM2014 - How to Resolve ALL Place Names

This will be a couple of individual locations to be resolved and how I handle the Address Fact.




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FTM2014 - How to Resolve ALL Place Names

A Video on how I use the Resolve ALL Place name feature. This feature allows us to resolve many or all of the Place Names that are not in the format that FTM2014 wants. There are a couple of examples of when you do NOT want to resolve a place name.



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How to Upload and Link a New Ancestry Member Tree

This HOW TO will demonstrate how to Upload and Link a file from FTM2014 to a new Ancestry Member Tree.



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A Tour of this Blog

To help understand how this blog has been set up, here is a virtual tour of the Blog.




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FTM2014 and Ancestry Member Tree Settings

Its been a while since I talked about the Ancestry Member Tree from within FTM2014 and how you control the Privacy Settings. Here is a relative short video that will show both the FTM2014 Privacy Settings and how to set them from within the Ancestry Member Tree




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My Heritage - another mess to clean up

Based on my Upload to My Heritage, I received another email. This one was from Geni.com. Now, I have just been ignoring Geni.com because I had worked on that website, to share and to see how it worked, a while ago.

Then I remembered that Geni.com was part of My Heritage, as was discussed in the +DearMYRTLE  Genealogy Community. So, I thought I would look.

Oh no, another mess to clean up. If I am reading this correctly, I have a Geni.com account and a My Heritage account. When I logged in, I was asked to subscribe, but I just paid for a subscription AND the "name" on this account wasn't the same.

End User messed up. That be me.

Since I was there, I thought I would look to see what THESE

Good news, Geni found 1 new Tree Matches for you!

were all about. This time there were some helpful information.

What is a Tree Match?

Geni is a shared family tree which means that there should only be one profile on Geni for any individual. Using advanced technology, we constantly search Geni trees for duplicate profiles that appear to be for the same individual. We call these Tree Matches. You should merge these duplicate profiles to grow your tree and discover new relatives.

Tip: Merging profiles can add an average of 100 more people to your family tree!

Here is what I found.

68 Matches. OK. Now I need to see what "tree" is on Geni or what part of the tree I had uploaded from an earlier version of Family Tree Maker.

I thought I would look around a little more to see if I understood what was there.

It appears that I have 21 Tree Matches, 32 Record Matches, and 24 Smart Matches.

When I start to work on this, I can start from here. What is nice, that on a per person basis, I can see how many of those three categories that person has.

I am thinking that I am just going to delete this Geni.com tree and use the tree I uploaded onto My Heritage, as it would be more up to date.

Before I do any of that, I need to look around the My Heritage and the Geni.com website to see if they have some suggestions, articles, or blog posts about my "next steps".

Why am I talking about My Heritage on my Family Tree Maker Blog? Simple, 1) not everything is Online, 2) not everything is on Ancestry.com, and 3) from within FTM2014 you can capture information from other websites. That is very important to me, as I demonstrated in that Newspaper Article that I have only found on My Heritage. I do it ALL from within FTM2014.

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First "confirmed" SmartMatch

OK, now my email is filling up with notifications from My Heritage. I am going to blog about the First SmartMatch™ result. As I look at what a SmartMatch is, its where there are Two Trees, online at My Heritage that have a match. I want to share the experience of the first one.

I get this email:

[ user name ] a MyHeritage member from Germany, just confirmed 2 Smart Matches between his family tree and yours, for the following people: 

Linus John Theis and Mary Elizabeth Theis (born Kessler) 

View these Smart Matches 

Recommended next step: click the above link to review these Smart Matches and confirm whether they're correct. 
This will help you learn new information about these people in your family tree. 

Tip: when you and the owner of another tree mutually confirm a Smart Match, it becomes fully validated. This is useful for distinguishing between correct and incorrect matches. 

If you have not done so already, view your Smart Matches and confirm all the correct matches. 

Have a great day, 
MyHeritage.com 

 This looks interesting. Not one of the names that I have looked at for awhile. So I clicked on the View these Smart Matches.

This is not the full page but I know THAT name and it says that the user "confirmed this match on May 1 2014 (today)

So, this USER has already Confirmed this Smart Match and All I need to do is to Confirm This Match. Well, lets see. You will see below that Mary Strode is marked in both trees, with the same birth and death DATES (years), BUT, and a really Big BUT, none of the relationships are right, at least in my tree.

My answer was No - reject this match. My database reflected NO 2nd marriage and the places aren't right.

After I clicked on the "NO" button I saw this:

I do have a chance to add additional information as to why I was rejecting this "match"

I was stunned a bit, because I thought "here we go again" someone "matching" trees with no documentation. As soon as I saw that there were not relationships and the place wasn't right, I stopped and will go onto the next message. I am not going to base my results on one SmartMatch™ and walk away. I'll work on another.

Guess I better get a score card out, like my Genea-Blogger +Randy Seaver at Geneamusings.com does, just to see what really happens.

I will now have to determine what a SmartMatch is really supposed to do. I did have a good result when I followed a Newpaper Article Hit.

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FTM2014 - HOW TO:Import from My Heritage

From a SmartMatch from My Heritage into Family Tree Maker. The steps I took to capture an Obituary from a newspaper article that was found in my online tree at My Heritage [ www.myheritage.com ] and input that information, including the text of the obituary, the data, image and a citation, and putting that into my FTM2014 file.



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