Delete Shared Fact on Family Tree Maker 2014

Allow's face it… Genealogy is non just near names and relationships. It is almost telling the story of a person's life. Using facts for events that occurred is the mode to help others understand more well-nigh the history of your family.

This commodity discusses the following:

Commonly used facts
Shared facts
Calculation a fact
Calculation alternate facts
Choosing a preferred fact
Copy and paste a fact (Family Tree Maker 2012-2014)
Editing a fact
Deleting a fact
Making a fact individual

Unremarkably used facts

In addition to nascency, union and expiry facts, here are some facts you volition probably meet as you lot tape your family history.

Address – Addresses can be useful for recording the contact information of living relatives or for recording the area where an antecedent was known to have lived.
Also Known As (AKA) – If an individual was known by a nickname or AKA rather than their given name, you lot may wish to record this in your file to distinguish them from other people in your tree.
Crusade of Death – Knowing your family's health history may help you prevent and care for illnesses that run in your lineage. You can tape an individual's cause of death or enter any details you feel are of import about the individual'south medical history.
Christening – Nativity records are not e'er available for people in your tree' therefore, christening records go useful because they may exist the earliest available info yous tin find for someone.
Emigration/Immigration – Emigration and immigration records are the commencement step in finding your ancestors in their homeland. Use these facts to tape dates, ports of departure and arrival or even ship names.
Physical Description – Although not necessarily beneficial to your research, a physical clarification of a person tin be a fascinating addition to your family's history.
Title – If an private has a title, such as Captain, equally part of their proper noun, y'all'll want to record this information in order to distinguish them from other in your file.

Shared facts

Some facts you can enter into your tree are shared with another individual. These will exist marked as Shared on the fact pick dialog when adding a new fact to a person. On your list of facts in the Person tab, shared facts will be listed in their own section with the proper name of the person who they are shared with.

Most of the pre-existing facts y'all'll detect within Family Tree Maker will be related to marriage or divorce blazon events. However, when creating a new, custom fact, y'all take the option of marking it as shared which can be tied to another individual besides.

Adding a fact

Go to the Person tab on the People workspace for the advisable individual.
Click the Facts button. The information you've already entered for the private volition testify in the Individual and Shared Facts section.
To add a fact press F4 on your keyboard, Correct-click in the workspace and select Add Fact, or click the button in the toolbar and the Add Fact window will open.
Annotation: Exist advised that if you click the down-arrow side by side to the + sign, yous volition only get a list of your most commonly used facts. Be sure you're clicking on the + sign itself if you lot want to take the selection to add any blazon of fact.
Cull a fact from the list and click OK.

Note: If the fact you want to use is not in the listing (for case, Pac-Man high score), you can add it by clicking the New button in the Add Fact window. Family Tree Maker then adds the new fact to the list for future use.
Consummate the Appointment, Identify, and Clarification fields as necessary.
When you are finished entering your data press either Tab or Enter on your keyboard, or click another field in Family unit Tree Maker. This will crusade your cursor to exit the field you were editing and automatically save the information to your file.

Adding alternate facts

As you're recording details near an individual, yous may discover that you take conflicting data about the same life result, such every bit two different nativity dates. When y'all have multiple facts for the aforementioned event, one fact will be preferred and the other facts will exist alternating.

Note: An alternate fact doesn't accept to contain conflicting information. For instance, y'all may have several Address facts for a person, all of which are correct.

Choosing a preferred fact

If you practise end up with multiple facts of the same blazon, you lot will have to choose i to be preferred. Typically, this is the fact that you believe to either be the most accurate/complete or the one that is more than relevant (in the case of facts that are all correct). One time yous marking a fact every bit preferred, it will be the default fact displayed in various views, charts and reports throughout the plan. To set a preferred fact:

Go to the Person tab on the People workspace for the appropriate private.
Click the Facts button.
Right-click on the fact that you desire to exist the preferred fact and choose Prepare As Preferred from the drop-down listing.
Note: If the fact is already the preferred fact the selection to Set As Preferred will be grayed out.
The Preferred column in the Private and Shared Facts section now shows the fact as preferred.

Copy and paste a fact – Family unit Tree Maker 2012-2014

With Family Tree Maker 2012-2014 y'all tin can copy a fact and paste it to anyone in your tree. This is useful when you have a fact (such as a residence) that may apply to more one individual. To re-create and paste a fact:

Go to the Person tab on the People workspace for the advisable individual.
Click the Facts button.
Right-click on the fact that y'all want to add to ane or more other individuals and choose Copy.

Paste fact to immediate family unit members

To paste the fact to anyone in the firsthand family for this person right-click on the fact again and choose Paste.
In the Paste fact window select whatsoever additional family unit members y'all want to add the fact to past checking the box to the left of their name. You tin can also select all family members by clicking on the Select all push at the lesser.
Note: The individual that you lot copied the fact from volition exist listed in Bold. Exist sure to uncheck this individual or you lot will create a duplicate a fact for them.
Click Ok to add this fact to your selections.

Paste fact to someone else

To paste a fact to anyone else in your tree printing F2 on your keyboard or click on the Index of Individuals push button at the top.

Note: Be advised that if you click the down-pointer to the right to the folder you volition merely get a list of your well-nigh recently accessed people. Be certain to click on the folder if you lot want to accept the full index to select from.
Select an private in the index that yous desire to add the fact to and click Ok.
Correct-click on their proper name fact and select Paste.
In the Paste fact window will exist the name of the private yous selected and their immediate family unit members. You can select whatsoever additional individuals you want to add the fact to by checking the box to the left of their name. You can also select all family unit members past clicking on the Select all button at the bottom.
Note: The individual that yous copied the fact from will be listed in Bold. Be sure to uncheck this individual or you volition create a duplicate a fact for them.
Click Ok to add this fact to your selections.

Editing a fact

One time facts accept been entered, you tin can besides edit them to modify the data.

Go to the Person tab on the People workspace for the appropriate private.
Click the Facts button; so click the fact y'all want to edit.
In the editing panel to the right you will have several areas (such equally Date, Identify, Clarification, Notes, etc..) that can be edited. Click into the advisable box and enter the necessary changes for your fact.
When you are finished, press either Tab or Enter on your keyboard, or click another field in Family unit Tree Maker. This will cause your cursor to exit the field you were editing and automatically save the information to your file.

Deleting a fact

If you wish to delete a fact that you have entered for an individual:

Go to the Person tab on the People workspace for the advisable individual.
Click the Facts button.
Right-click on the fact that you want to delete and select Delete Fact from the drop-down list.

Making a fact private

You may enter facts about an private that you do not want to share with other family unit members or researchers. If you lot brand a fact "private," you lot tin cull whether or non to include the data on reports or when y'all consign the file. Setting a fact equally private also prevents it from showing in your online tree when it is uploaded to Ancestry and prevents it from syncing to your online tree when y'all are using TreeSync in Family unit Tree Maker 2012-2014 or Family Tree Maker for Mac 2. In that location are several options bachelor for setting a fact as private.

Setting a fact as private for one individual

Go to the Person tab on the People workspace for the appropriate individual.
Click the Facts button.
Right-click on the fact that yous desire to set as individual and select Marker Private from the drib-down list.
You should now run into the icon side by side to the fact in the list.

Setting a fact as private for all individuals

If you apply a certain type of fact (like social security numbers or telephone numbers) and make up one's mind that you would like to keep them private for the unabridged file you lot have two options available to apply.

Fix a fact equally private past default – Family Tree Maker 2012-2014

This option is bachelor in Family Tree Maker 2012-2014 and allows all data entered under a sure fact blazon to be individual all the time. To apply this selection:

Click on the Edit carte du jour in the upper left area of your plan and select Manage Facts.
Scroll through and click on the fact you want to set as private past default in the list of facts and select the Properties push button on the right.
Place a checkmark in the box for Private past default and click Ok.

Notation: This will only set up this fact equally private going forward from the time yous brand this change. If you lot have used this type of fact for any private prior to making this alter the data that has already been entered will remain as it was originally entered. If you want to privatize all entries for this fact inside your file continue with the steps listed below.

Set all facts of a specific type as private

If you have used a sure type of fact in your file and determine that yous want to set all entries for that fact equally private please follow the steps listed below.
1. Click on the Edit menu in the upper left area of your program and select Manage Facts.
2. Scroll through and click on the fact yous desire to set as private by default in the listing of facts and select the Data Options button on the right.
3. A Backup prompt will open. We highly recommend backing upwardly your file earlier standing since any changes that are made in the Information Options screen cannot be undone. For data about backing upward a file click here.
4. Once yous take completed your backup a data screen for your fact will open and display the names of individuals that you have used this fact on and the data that was entered. To gear up all instances of this fact as private identify a check mark in the box at the bottom for Mark the selected fact as and gear up the drop down box to the right as Private and click Ok.