Peggy,
I have used Family Tree Maker for years. The download is easy and
duplicates are not really an issue. There is a feature that will let you
look at duplicate names to see if they are truly duplicate for more than one
person with the same name.
The feature also lets you merge names, that part I use a lot when importing
data from other gedcoms. Ie your data has more details on a specific person
than I have in my database. I can merge the two and keep your data.
The same name thing is very prevalent in my Snapp line. The German naming
convention was to name your first son for your father, your second son for
yourself and so on for both male and females were named in this manner. We
use to tease my Grandmother that she had 12 kids so she could have unusual
names for a few of her dozen.
Family Tree Maker has its own numbering system that can be turned on or off.
I have used the same numbering system from the Capwell book. It really
makes it easier to find them in the book when I have to go backwards. My
mother-in-love, Clarice Capwell is #1300 in volume two.
The other fun feature of Family Tree for me is the relationship charts you
can create. When I did my first one I was shocked to see I was my own
cousin!! I had not noticed before than there was some marriage of close
relatives a long way back.
You and Clarice are half second cousins it says.
Be prepared to spend some time with that program. Once I started uploading
and entering the slips of papers I have stuck around, I was in the computer
room for a full four day weekend.
Teresa and Jack
jatsh(a)msn.com
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I bought The Family Tree Maker program and I am supposed to be able to
download gedcoms and import them into my file also but I haven't done it
yet. When you do that what happens to the information you already have in
your file? What about people with the same name? Did you have any problems
with it?
Peggy
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