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rlgleason51

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  1. Vcf help file

    Thanks Jim
  2. Repositories

    Thanks Michael. I will take a look.
  3. Repositories

    Thanks, Terry
  4. Orphan records

    Is ther a way to generate a report listing standalone persons with no relationships attached. In other words, orphan records?
  5. Orphan records

    Jim and Terry, thanks for the suggestions. Terry - this appears to be exactly what I am looking for.
  6. Adding existing spouse

    I have a very complicated situation that, if I went into detail, would be very confusing. Suffice it to say, I have two existing records in my database that I need to link as spouses. How can I do this? I've not been able to do this without adding a new person to the database. Thanks
  7. Adding existing spouse

    Thanks Jim. so simple that I have say "DUH", and not for the first time today.
  8. I have ancestors who served in the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. Until now I've used the mili-begin and mili-end tags to reflect their service and annotating the details (commanders, special accomplishments, etc) in the memo field. Is this how others do this? Is there a better way? Thanks.
  9. Describing military service

    Thanks. Terry, your info will,help a lot.
  10. Immigration

    I have a situation where records show an ancestor immigrated here in 1684 (apparently by himself) and then again in 1709 with three of his sons. M initial thought was to treat the first as his immigration, then the second as immigration for each of his sons with him as a witness. How do others handle this?
  11. Immigration

    Thanks. As the second immigration records shows him with three sons, I'm thinking a return trip for family records. I've ordered a book dealing with the migration of this family so hopefully I'll get additional info in support. Either way, I like your method of handling the data.
  12. Describing military service

    Thanks everyone. I will look at the tag sentence suggestions.
  13. I have applications applying for membership in the SAR from ancestors, which lists their genealogy. I would like to add this info to the individuals but am not sure which source and tag to use. Thoughts are appreciated.
  14. Handling sons of the American revolution info

    Thanks to everyone who responded. I decided to try Jim's original suggestion to create a dummy project, then export and import the source types. Worked like a charm.
  15. Handling sons of the American revolution info

    Thanks Jim. I will try that. I don't know what happened but I do know with complete certainty that t have not deleted any source types and I don't recall ever specifying lackey or mills.
  16. Handling sons of the American revolution info

    Thanks Jim. I was looking at the Mills sources on my laptop and found many that I do not have in my official project. Sources for DAR, military career, etc. Is there any way I can incorporate them in my main project without damage? I am not well versed in creating templates. what do the "import' 'export' options do and can they be used to merge my sources?
  17. Handling sons of the American revolution info

    Terry Thanks. I was preparing for the worse. Now tell me it I dodged a bullet. I backup my desktop data base and restored t on my laptop. I then initialed Mills on my laptop. I then compared my sources between the two computers (sorry, I had to have both opened at the same time). I found, to my surprise, that I had the same number (and names) of sources on both. does this mean the I can initialize without data loss? Or am I not seeing the real damage that would occur?
  18. Handling sons of the American revolution info

    Jim (& terry) - This is what I see: 1. I access Master Source List 2. I Select 'Add' from them options list 3. I do not see the 'Lineage Application' source from he list, so I then 4. Select add again. From the custom source type screen, I open the drop menu for 'Most similar to: 5. and there I find the Lineage Application source, with blank sections for sentences. Related question (which may solve issue): while is step 3 above, I did notice an option to 'Initialize' which took me to a screen to select the custom source type (Mills or Lackey). However, I did not do this because it advised that any data entry templates associated with each source type would be overwritten. That gave me great pause so I stopped, as I was fearful that all sources I had entered would be lost.
  19. Handling sons of the American revolution info

    Thanks Terry. I have the actual application but the only Lineage Application source type is one I have to create the sentences for (footnote, short notes, etc), for which I have previously heavily relied on Michaels website for. Is here a template I can refer to?
  20. I recently created a List of Descendants report for one of my lines. It listed only the names (indented) of the my direct ancestors for that one line. I saved the report layout because I wanted to use it for my other lines, and promptly lost it when I had to do a reinstall of Windows, although I would have thought it would have been saved in my backups. ​Anyway, I cannot for the life me remember how I did it. Could it have been the list of people report? I know that I did not have to create a focus group; I did not use flags; and I think I entered the ID for my most distant ancestor for that line, plus my ID. The format of the report, which I created Feb 23, 2017, is as follows: Indented for each generation: (1) Name of ancestor + Spouse (2) name of next ancestor + spouse. Etc. Help. How can I recreate this report? Thanks.
  21. List of Direct descendants report

    Thanks Michael, it does help
  22. List of Direct descendants report

    Thanks to you both for responding. I gues I must have done some editing of the report but I sure don't remember doing so. I'lll fingered it out.
  23. I was thinking of installing apple's iCloud for windows to facilitate syncing my database between my two Macs. (I am running parallels). What are the pitfalls of,doing this?
  24. Backing up to iCloud for windows

    Thanks all. Michael, that's how I've been doing but was hoping to shorten the process.
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