Family
Tree Maker is one of the most popular software choices for genealogists.
This first class in a series of two is designed to help you in entering
your information into your family file. This includes, individuals,
dates, places, images and, of course, sources. Knowing how to navigate
and enter information into FTM will help you to keep all of your family
history information organized and accessible.
See also Part 2 Advanced
Bio:
Cindy Rowzee
grew up in upstate New York. As a child, she watched her parents travel
to neighboring states and to Canada to do genealogy research, and that's
when her interest began.
A graduate of Brigham Young University, Cindy earned a Family History
degree with a focus on North American research. As a student, she worked
at the Utah Valley Regional Family History Center, and held internships
at the Utah Valley Regional FHC, at the Family History Library (Salt
Lake City, Utah), and for Lineages, a genealogical researching company.
After graduation, Cindy became an Accredited Genealogist in the Northeastern
States Region (now Mid-Atlantic States Region), and returned to upstate
New York, where she has lived for several years.
Cindy has taught on-line genealogy classes for several years and continuing
education classes at a local community college. In addition to working
on her own genealogy, she does a limited amount of professional research.
Her passion is helping others gain the skills they need to find their
own ancestors. She is newsletter co-editor for the International Commission
for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogist (ICAPGen).
Currently a stay-at-home mom of two little girls, she spends most of
her spare time working on genealogy.
LESSON
TITLES
Class Outline
Lesson
1 - Getting Started
1. Installing
the Program
2. Starting a New Tree
3. Importing a Tree
4. Pages and Menus
5. File Menu
6. Edit Menu
7. View Menu
8. Tools Menu
9. Help Menu
10. Toolbar
Lesson
2 - Navigating in Family Tree Maker
1. Multiple
Files Debate
2. Navigating Between Files
3. Plan Workspace
4. People Worksapce
5. Index Bar
6. Pedigree area
7. Family Group area
8. Individual area
9. Navigating with the small pedigree
Lesson
3 - Facts and Relationships
1. Person
Tab
2. Facts View
3. Timeline View
4. Relationship View
5. Adding Individuals
6. Adding Facts
7. Relationships
Lesson
4 - Merging, Notes and Tasks
1. Merging
two specific Individuals
2. Deleting Individuals
3. Merging Trees
4. Notes
5. Tasks
Lesson
5 - Sources
1. Documenting
your Sources
2. Sources vs. Citations
3. Where to input Source-citations
4. Entering a source from the fact view
5. Source Manager
6. Sources workspace
7. Linking a citation
8. Unlinking a source-citation
9. Copy and Paste a source-citation
10. Source quality
Lesson
6 - Media
1. Where
to add media items
2. Adding a media item
3. Linking to an already entered media item
4. Media Workspace
5. Collection Tab
6. Detail Tab
7. Media Group Bar
8. Person Image
9. Other Media files
Lesson
7 - Web Search
1. Web
Search Workspace
2. Search Locations
3. Web Browser
4. Person from your tree
5. Search result detail
6. Searching Ancestry.com
7. Searching other websites
Lesson
8 - Help Menu and Tools
1. Help
for Family Tree Maker
2. On-line Help Center
3. E-mail Family Tree Maker Support
4. Getting Started Tutorial
5. Other Help Menu options
6. Family Tree Maker 2008 Mailing List
7. Family Tree Maker Groups
8. Date Calculator
9. Relationship Calculator
10. Soundex Calculator
11. Find and Replace
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