Īfter all this chatter finally think I can go to the people I follow in the Genealogy community and hire a person to clean up my data. My daughter declined the gift, It was on sale for $30. FTM 2019 stands for Family tree maker 2019. FTM19 is a boon for beginners and a blessing for the experts. Thanks PS I bought an extra copy of Roots Magic (download) I bought for a Holiday Gift. Family Tree maker 2019 has a wide variety of tools, and simple navigation and web search features make it more fascinating than other available genealogy software. Thanks for listening to my long tale of woe. This has gone on for for most of our 55 plus years together. My husband refers to Great great grandma Lehaney (Drawing in dining room) as the old bitty.
I am willing to pay someone to help with the software management. Think I need to hire someone who can help Have some ideas on cleaning up some of the data.
TODAY Have many gigs of data but it is a complete disaster. Noticed my backups contained many shortcuts that led nowhere. Started moving my backups to external hard drives. Then microsoft decided to move my files to their cloud… I was in a panic. By 2018 had multiple copies and began to loose track of what I had.
Finally downloaded the entire tree as a GED.does not use most image files(jpg etc.) Many images were stripped from the tree, and uploaded the tree again.(Should have stopped and hired someone to help. When I was able to sync again (1 1/2 yrs later) My tree would not sync. About 2014 Family Tree Maker was no longer supported by the owner. Think I need to stop looking for a magic solution.