At the 19 October meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Computer Group, attendees were asked to relate any
specific problems they were having in operating their computer or an
application on their computer.
Marie, working on Windows 7, said she
was having some problems with Source Citations. Randy went through
some of the common problems between different versions of Family Tree
Maker (FTM) and other similar programs.
Tvette, working on Windows XP, said she was still
trying to come up with a good system for organizing her Photos and
Images. Randy talked about some of the methods he has developed for
media organization and warned that it is important to know whether
your FTM software embeds media files in your data-base or only saves
a link to the file in your data-base.
Jane, on XP, said she had old CDs of
FTM research databases which came with an older version of FTM.
Could she somehow access these old files? Gary mentioned he had tried
several approaches to unlock these files with no success. Randy said
she may need to re-install the old version of FTM to gain access to
the research data-base. There was also conversation about how to
un-install old versions of FTM software.
Jackie, on Windows 7, was still trying
to find her way around in Rootsweb and FamilySearch. Randy briefly demonstrated working in the Rootsweb WorldConnect database and finding FamilySearch collections using keywords, like states or countries, to narrow the search.
Virginia, on XP, wanted to learn more
about how to create, rename and move folders.
Joanna talked about how she was unable
to get the results from her submission to Family Tree DNA. She enters
the code provided to her from FTDNA and gets everything except the
DNA Results. Her brother, who is very knowledgeable on computer usage,
was not able to get the results either.
The next meeting of the CVGS Computer Group will be on Wednesday, 16 November at 12 noon in the Computer Lab at the Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library.
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