FTM - Meeting High Points

The next meeting of the FTM-SIG will be
Saturday  April 15, 2023

The April 15, 2023 Meeting Agenda:

1. How has FTM 2019 ver 24.2 been treating you? Good surprises? Not as good surprises?
2. How do you find orphan (unattached) people and 'tree branches' in your tree? And ... what to do with them???
3. How do you find duplicate people and facts, in your tree? And ... what to do with them???

You may contact us at:
ftm@californiaancestors.org

A DropBox folder containing all the 2016 thru 2023 handouts and power point presentations, from Meeting #3 - Jan 20, 2016 thru Meeting #76 March, 2023, can be found in FTM-SIG Handouts Folder.

WHAT'S NEW IN THE FAMILY TREE MAKER 2019 ver24.2???

OVERVIEW AND GENERAL CHANGES ( over all earlier versions)
This important new build provides not just significant fixes, greater stability, and improved performance in many areas, but also a few exciting new features that we hope you will like as much as we do. For instance, in TreeVault Cloud Services you now have the opportunity to add your media collection to your Antenna tree to keep it safely stored for the future in case you ever need to restore your tree or want to pass it on to the next generation. There are also Historical Weather Sentences that you can add to your Smart Stories and books to paint a more detailed picture of the days your ancestors lived through. And you can only benefit from the convenience of linking multiple people to a media item, viewing detailed lists of your changes in the Change Log, and quite a bit more.

NEW IN TREEVAULT CLOUD SERVICES

Media for Emergency Restore. Media collection from your Source tree can be included to Antenna tree. It can then be used with the Emergency Tree restore and Next of Kin services.
Smart Weather Sentences™ using our Historical Weather® database. All that fascinating historical weather data can now be automatically added to your Smart Stories with just a single checkbox. And not just dry facts but reader-friendly descriptions of conditions on a particular day.

OTHER NEW FEATURES

Detailed Change Log. Now it’s possible to see all the details of bulk operations like syncing, Web Merge, and others, right in the Change Log.
Sync cropped profile pictures with Ancestry. Profile pictures cropped in FTM 2019 can now be synced with Ancestry and vice versa.
Link multiple people to a media item. The ability to link a media item to more than one person at a time has been added, including easy linking to an individual’s family.
Face detection and auto zoom. Face detection of multiple faces on a photo for a profile picture is made possible with the Auto Zoom button, as well as auto zooming by clicking on a face.
Default workspace. We’ve added a new option to the application preferences that lets users choose where their trees will open.

VERSION 24.1 - WINDOWS
WEB SEARCH / ANCESTRY

Ancestry login issue fixed. We’ve fixed a problem that blocked the Ancestry Sign-In window for some users.
More reliable sync with Ancestry. The most frequently reported sync interruption errors have been fixed.
Source citation links to facts. Source citation links to facts are now synced to Ancestry for all individuals without exception.
Preferred parents issue fixed. The “Preferred parents” relationship is now synced with the FTM tree when it has been changed on Ancestry.
Private names stay private after syncing if interrupted sync happened before. All names marked as private now remain private after syncing with or uploading a tree to Ancestry.
Searching and merging of records. We’ve resolved issues that prevented search result details from loading and the merging of records when working with certain collections, including new format census and Newspapers.com records.
Preview of an image at Ancestry.com fixed. Now, when you click on an image from any Ancestry record inside the Web Search workspace, it is opened correctly, without showing a blank page.
Merging of source citations fixed. An issue where source citations were not merged into the tree from Historical Records when using Web Merge has been fixed.
Ignore Hint issue fixed. The Ignore Hint button for Ancestry hints now works correctly, including when the tree is not synced.
Ancestry messages access fixed. Messages from the Messages menu (accessed via the Ancestry tree button on the Plan Workspace) now open correctly.
Vital facts duplication resolved. Vital facts are no longer duplicated after you add them to a person and then switch to the Web Search workspace for the first time.

FAMILYSEARCH

High security connection to FamilySearch. We’ve upgraded the FTM 2019 connection to FamilySearch, applying the same technology we use to connect you to Ancestry. This ensures a secure connection for getting hints, searching and merging records from FamilySearch.
Source structure compatibility greatly improved. Sources and source citations downloaded from FamilySearch now merge more reliably and without duplicates into the right FTM 2019 fields.
Download of large branches. An issue has been fixed where an attempt to download a large branch of the FamilySearch Family Tree led to a jump in system memory usage which sometimes resulted a crash.
Matching people with FamilySearch issues fixed. All buttons now work correctly when matching a person in your tree with a person in the FamilySearch tree, and hint results appear without a long delay.

INDEX

Smart Filter color coding performance improved. Color coding applied to a large number of people using a Smart Filter now appears without delay, including for trees uploaded to TreeVault.
Improved hints performance. Ancestry and FamilySearch hints now appear in the Index just a few seconds after login to the respective sites.

MEDIA

Find Missing Media performance greatly improved. Finding all missing media in FTM 2019 is now up to 14 times faster.
Image display issue fixed. An issue where certain images appeared as generic thumbnails on the Detail tab of Media workspace has been resolved.
Ancestry Citation Media downloading when syncing changes from Ancestry. Citation Media now syncs much faster from Ancestry into a FTM Source tree that is linked to an Antenna tree in TreeVault.
Media linking issue fixed. When working with source citations, media linked to a person now remains linked only to that person and not to their source citation and all people linked to that citation.
Profile picture media issue fixed. An issue has been fixed where a profile picture would not be added and the selected media file deleted if the image was already present in the tree and the “Do not copy files” option was turned on.

GEDCOM

Media merge issue fixed. Media is no longer duplicated in an FTM tree after merging with a GEDCOM file containing the same media.
Source citation export compatibility improved. Source citation web addresses are now exported to GEDCOM format in a form that is easily recognized by other software and web sites.

PEOPLE WORKSPACE

Adding a person performance issue fixed. Certain operations to add a new person that were slow to execute in some large trees are now performed multiple times faster.
Global Spell Check issue resolved. Original formatting of notes text is no longer affected when using the Global Spell Check tool.

PLAN WORKSPACE

Priority of tasks retained. The priority assigned to tasks is now maintained when transferring backup tree files from the Mac or Windows version of FTM 2017 or FTM 2019 to the other platform.

FILE OPERATIONS

More convenient compacting. ”Perform extended analysis" is now selected by default when compacting a file.
Export of all individuals without including unlinked items is now possible. The “Include only items linked to selected individuals” checkbox is no longer dimmed if the “Entire file” option is selected.
Tree opening issue fixed. Converted FTM 2017 trees that contain a filter with quotation marks in the name now open without problem in FTM 2019.

Faster startup. We’ve implemented optimization that increases the program launch speed for trees with a large number of hints.

OTHER PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Sorting places by person. Sorting the list of places by person on the Places workspace now works significantly faster for large trees with color coding.
Faster book creation. The Genealogy Book editor on the Publish workspace now performs operations in significantly less time.

OTHER FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS

Easier source citation management. Multiple source citations can be selected for deletion within a source group.
Find Duplicate People tool. Find Duplicate People now catches near-identical people that could not be identified as possible duplicates previously.
Chromium Embedded Framework. A new version of the Chromium Embedded Framework has been applied to take advantage of improvements made in the framework in performance and security. (Windows only)
Sorting places by person. Sorting the list of places by person on the Places workspace now works significantly more quickly for large trees with color coding.
Remotely stored tree issue fixed. We’ve fixed crashes that occurred with a tree located on remote storage when adding a father to a person, or when syncing with Ancestry, after a connection loss.
Greater stability. Specific issues that could potentially cause crashes with some trees have been resolved in many areas across Family Tree Maker.

VERSION 24.1 - MAC
macOS 11.0–12.3 SUPPORT and Apple silicon

Native support for Apple silicon. The 24.1 version provides native support for Mac computers with Apple silicon processors, which means Rosetta is no longer needed to run FTM 2019 on those computers.
Installation issue on macOS 12 (Intel Macs) fixed. Now FTM 2019 installs correctly on macOS 12 on Intel-based Macs.
Large tree performance improved. Numerous freezes have been fixed that occurred with a very large tree (larger than 5000 media items, saved reports, charts and books) when new information was added or when switching between workspaces in a Source tree that is linked to an Antenna tree in TreeVault.

WEB SEARCH / ANCESTRY

Ancestry login issue fixed. We’ve fixed a problem that blocked the Ancestry Sign-In window for some users.
Large tree performance improved. An issue where source citations were not merged into the tree from Historical Records when using Web Merge has been fixed.
Large tree performance improved. Issues with merging census and Newspapers.com records that are in a new format have been resolved, and these records can now be merged.
Preferred parents issue fixed. The “Preferred parents” relationship is now synced with the FTM tree when it has been changed on Ancestry.