FTM Wish List

Multiple Chapters of Notes. Add "Chapters of Notes" and/or add Notes to Facts Fields. Individuals would then be able to store and catalog wills, obituaries, census transcriptions, research notes, private notes and other text in categories.  Individuals would be able to name them as they wish, include/exclude in reports as they wish.

Multiple Windows and Data Bases: Ability to have more than one window open to a single data base, and more than one data base open, at a time. Drag and drop transfers of individuals/lineages between files.

Global changes to names of  people or locations

Fact Fields

• Ability to order the way a user wishes. A move up or down bar would be nice.
• Add fast fields to the Fact Field name

Dual Dating. At the very least, with auto dual dating turned off (which it should be, as it never should be used), the ability to at least be able to enter a dual date. Give more tags that can be used in the date field to record dates that may be old or new. Particularly: date "as found, not sure which calendar", old/new maybe, old/new definitely. Should probably just do away with auto dual dating; it just invites errors.
 

Find Individual The present "Find Individual" search does not recognizes spaces or periods. Mass<space> gets Massachusetts, where it should not. Mass. gets Massachusetts, where it should not. Also problems with searches for specific dates getting range dates that include that date.

Date Calculator, ie date of death minus age = date of birth.

Exporing GedComs:

• Make the "burial" tag export with the BURI gedcom tag. It presently exports with the EVEN tag, which means the information will not go to the right spot in those genealogy programs that have a special spot for Burials.
• Ability to privatize reports or gedcoms, giving the same options that Gedlivng presently does.

• Give individuals the option to "jump" to edit the record and "jump" back to the merge screen
• Give individuals 3 options for facts: Primary, secondary, or pitch.

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Auto Merging Records and Report.

• My interest in this feature is from the perspective of what shows in the possible duplicates report that is "tied into" the auto-merge function. I want a report on paper of possible duplicates that I can customize the criteria for. Give individuals the choice for who to include in the selection criteria. Others, who use the auto-merge feature, want the same flexibility.

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Customizable Button Bars: Give us the ability to customize the button bar, with big or little buttons. Add "function" button bars that a user might include on the button bar if they wish. (like resorting kids, etc.)

Index

• Ability to "interchange" other data field column (ie birth location) in columns where presently are birth and death date. Then, in the index, ability to sort on those fields, ie location.
• List names entered with one name, given name only, with \\; at the top of the list separate from names with surnames.

Show relationships on family screen: Add ability to show relationships of either anyone to a "base-target" individual, or at least show direct-line ancestors somewhere in the view, set the target to a selected person. If I start navigating all of my thousands of 17th and 18th century Puritan ancestors and cousins, I would like a "quick-glance" notation somewhere on the screen of how each person is related to me.

Append: Replace the word "append" with "import".

Placement of stuff within the menu

• Merge Master Source Button from "merge" to the Edit Master Source dialog box
• Possible duplicate reports from "merge" operation to reports section.
• Exporting Genealogy reports from menu to rtf to the print dialog box

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• Ability to choose not to include aunts and uncles in ancestral register reports, as one wishes.
• Ability to do an Genealogy reports BY LINE within the reports section; or the give us the ability to that within a book by giving us flexibility on shutting off notes on the first generation, and/or the first two generations.
• Add spouses, and their vitals and parents, to aunts and uncles in ancestral genealogy reports.
• Add divorce/end of marriage info to genealogy register reports.
• Put Facts Fields in FRONT OF/top of notes, not under, the notes.
• Include all spouses and children of female ancestors in genealogy reports, as is presently done for male ancestors.

• Expand kinship report, as an option, to include anyone related in any way (for file splitting purposes) Presently too restrictive for doing that. I think the kinship report stops now just before a second marriage, ie will not show my wife's sister's husband, will not show my son-in-law's sister or parents. This change is particularly desirable for file splitting purposes.

• Add "Selected Individuals" capability to the marriage report. At least for descendants and ancestors of a given individual, or even other record sets, ie all marriages in a given state, etc.

• In Custom Reports, option to "fit to one page", horizontally. Font would automatically scale, as is done in Excel, Quickbooks.

• A "simple" ahnentafel report. Just a list, separated by generation, with the tfel numbers of ancestors only. (This could be done in the present ahnentafel report by adding an option to include/exclude children of ancestors, which is now mandatory. See next wish)
• Top of line ancestor report. For a designated person, give back a list of "top-of-line" ancestors.
• Married cousins report, ie marriages of two people who are related to each other.

Additional info regarding women in the index of books. Possibly list under both maiden and married names. Or insert married names in parenthesis after the maiden name. Or both.

More functionality added to the word processor.

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