User Question: How to enter a known father for an illegitimate birth so that a report shows both parents and the child appears as a descendant of its mother You enter the parents normally. The key is the Relationship Setting between the Parents. Select that father or mother, of the child, go to the People Workspace, Person View, Relationship Tab and make your choice of the Relationship. ____________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2022 by Cousin Russ ..read more

Ways to Support Ukraine Please use this link to visit the Software MacKiev website. I have friends that have been impacted by the events in Ukraine. I understand that they are safe and hope they remain safe. As you may know, RootsTech-2022 is Virtual, but in past years, it was live. The team in the Ukraine would be in Salt Lake City with use, talking about Family Tree Maker. ____________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2022 by Cousin Russ ..read more

What do I want YOU to see VS What do I need to see I recently create a "Book", using the Family Book Creator plugin for the Family Tree Maker program (FTM2019). It was a draft to show a class what an "end result" might be for our research. The book was about 120 pages, with charts, stories, Pictures, records, and a Place and Person index. This book was created from a file that I have been using, in an "in person" class, based on some research for one of the students. The research has been shared with the class, over the past several months, some of the material has been used on this blog ..read more

Review of Certain Facts: In my  review of those I hope to find in the 1950 Census, before they are indexed, I have a series of Facts that I look at and make note of. Do I have an Address Do I have the 1940 Federal Census Do I have a Marriage Date for Females Do I have a Death Date Some of these Facts are taken care of my the Filter Feature. I look to see of the Residence Fact indicates that the family moved around. As mentioned in an earlier post, if attempt to get each profile, with each Census Record that I should be able to find for them. If  I don't have a specific year ..read more

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I have not published this before, but have had a couple of comments on the blog that I will not publish. That is a three letter abbreviation for this website. I will be very happy to publish comments about this website, and I have many blog posts about my use of it, but the Website NAME MUST be spelled out. I hope you understand. ____________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2022 by Cousin Russ ..read more

Are you ready for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census ? Watch for this graphic, on this Blog, and DearMYRTLE's Blog and Facebook Groups as we will use this for the DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie branding. Will demonstrate the three (3) steps that I am using, when working on the 1950 Census Preparation. 1) Who I should find in the Census, 2) Address needed for the One-Step Website, 3) Those who I have 1950 ED's. Here is a link to my previous 1950 Census Preparation blog posts: https://ftmuser.blogspot.com/search?q=census1950 Preparation for the rel ..read more

Are you ready for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census ? Watch for this graphic, on this Blog, and DearMYRTLE's Blog and Facebook Groups as we will use this for the DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie branding. On the Steve Morse Unified 1950 Census ED Finder website, one of the Places I had was in an Incorporated location. This video demonstrates how I dealt with this. It is a little different and took a few minutes to figure it how. Thought I would share it with you. References:  1 - Preparation for the 1940 US Federal Census&nb ..read more

Are you ready for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census ? Watch for this graphic, on this Blog, and DearMYRTLE's Blog and Facebook Groups as we will use this for the DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie branding. In this blog post and Video, I will share a trick I found while trying to use the  "Cross or back street on same city block" feature, on the Steve Morse Unified 1950 Census ED Finder website, and you don't see a cross or back street on the Map. References:  1 - Preparation for the 1940 US Federal Census on this blog alre ..read more

Are you ready for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census ? Watch for this graphic, on this Blog, and DearMYRTLE's Blog and Facebook Groups as we will use this for the DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie branding. This is the 6th Blog Post on what I am doing to be ready for the 01 April 2022 release of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census. In the December CensusGenie, we looked at how to find your ancestor's 1950 Enumeration District (ED), before the Census Records are indexed. I spent some time trying to figure out HOW to use the information we learned and put that into FTM2019, so that I could get right ..read more