So off I went earlier this evening, thinking this would be fun and easy information to find out, and half an hour later I gave up. I waste so much time on things I can't figure out! I have Family Tree Maker 2009. I went to Edit, Find Individual, entered Reference ID in the first box and 1000 and clicked on find. Guess what I got, nothing! Ok, so then I went and tried it for 100 and guess what I got? Nothing. Same thnig when I tried ten.
So then I went to help and tried to figure out why they weren't coming up. It shows in my index how many people I have in my tree, so why doesn't it come up when I search this way for them? Ok, I poked around and around and finally said oh well. Seems I come across so many things that should be so simple to do or figure out and it never works out that way for me. I felt like picking a person from my tree to say was my 1000th person, after all who would know?
I would!
Looks like I will have to look more into this on a rainy day!
Thanks for stopping by!
Wishing you success in all of your genealogical treasure hunts!
Msteri
Sounds like the same thing that happened to me at first. I have FTM2005 but it probably works the same.
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File
click Preferences
click Reference numbers tag
check the box for Individuals
Mine sort of looked like it was already checked but it wasn't.
Mysteri, I have yet to discover who my 1000th person is...I too use Family tree maker, although an earlier version I believe. I may give it a whirl late this evening when kids are in bed and all is quiet. If I have any luck, I will share my method of "discovery" with you! Have a great day! Let's not stress---it's the holiday season.
ReplyDeleteI was so excited Apple to try what you suggested, but my version is newer and doesn't work the same. It is geting to me. I played again with it tonight and finally made a comment to Randy, now I really want to know! Maybe he has a suggestion. Thanks so much for the info and trying! Appreciate it!
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