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From: "Anne Burcham-Thompson" <>
Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] sending charts was Re: Sheets
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 02:09:27 -0400
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Thanks for the directions, Sandy. Believe me, you will not catch up with
your mail when you retire !
I retired two years ago and have barely started. Later, Anne
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:48 AM
Subject: [OHGALLIA-L] sending charts was Re: Sheets


> In a message dated 6/6/01 3:47:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
>
> > I will be happy to
> > share all I have since I
> > finally have figured out how to send a chart from my FTM. It took me
> > forever to figure it out; but I
> >
>
>
> the outline is the best and easiest to read,
> I wrote this a few months ago for someone who wanted help emailing charts.
> Family Tree Maker is a versatile program but most people don't realize
they
> can send several different types of charts as well as a quick and easy
> outline via email, [without the need for attachments, which are the bane
of
> the Internet]. You should never send attachments without permission.
>
> The outline is by far the easiest, all you to is click on outline, click
on
> contents, items to include, choose name, all three dates [b,m,d] in
location,
> spouse's father/mother, take out the short default date or you will have
> double dates, click on contents again and choose 2 or 3 generations, don't
> send people 10 generations down to your grandchildren unless they ask,
> besides it is a bad idea to send out so much personal information to
> strangers. Then just click on edit and copy the outline, and simply paste
> into email. You only have to choose items to include the first time, the
> program remembers this the next time.
>
> There are 3 charts you can create but these must be copied, pasted to
word,
> cut from word, and pasted to email which seems like a lot of work to me
when
> the outline is so easy, but…
>
> Click on GEN REPT, click on format and choose one. Click on contents and
> choose options, you don't have to include the notes, which makes a shorter
> chart, then choose 2 or 3 generations. Also if you put your source notes
> inline you don't get all those numbers after the names of each person [and
at
> the end].
>
> First is the register style which prints the entire name in ALL CAPS and
> skips lines between most people, this form takes up a lot of space and the
> all caps are hard to read.
> Second is a much better form called the NGS format, which is descent
ordered
> and prints a nice compact list of children, then in the second gen. lists
the
> children that you have more info on and their children. It is by far
superior
> to the register style.
> Third is the ancestor chart which does just that, prints out ancestors,
you
> can choose how many generations, again it is best to choose only 2 or 3.
>
> Thanks for writing.
> Sandy in Florida
> Maybe I'll catch up with my mail when I retire, in 2010!
>
>
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