Gene Dixon's Page

"Stephanie, I am not sure that the large Chart printing format is where it needs to be and I do hope that Family Tree Maker developers continue to improve that feature. From what I have seen, the issue is my local Printer restrictions. Remember,…"

"Gene, If you turn the Web Searh feature off, there may be some performance improvement. As for the Generation reports, please check the Items to Include options. The 2010 report you displayed Starts with Eldon and does NOT reflect the ancestor,…"

"Mom never actually made corn meal mush when I was growing up. You could buy it in the stores. It was packaged in a rectangular package 2 or 3 pounds I believe. Mom would slice off squares about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick and fry in bacon grease.…"

"Are you talking about polenta? It is an Italian corn meal mush. The only way I have seen it packaged (ready to use - fry) is in a roll like sausage in a plastic type wrapper. It's very good."

"This is my great grandmother's lemon pie recipe that my mother used. Take the juice and grate the yellow portion of the rind of two lemons, two cupfuls of sugar, yolks of four eggs, four tablespoonfuls flour and two cupfuls of water. Cook the…"

"I've only traced back to my 4th great grandfather (lots more research to do). George M. Enders DOB 9 Aug 1824 York County, PA DOD 3 Oct 1887 York County, PA Burial Greenmount Cemetery York PA Spouse Elizabeth *Liza* Spahr Married 1 Oct 1846 by…"

"1. Well, yes. compared to v16 and the FTMs I have had before that. But, it makes no difference whether I am comparing to a previous verson or not, if 2010 was the only version I knew about, it still loads very slow. I have never liked the automatic…"

"You are probably right about the versions. I am way behind the times. Maybe it is time for an upgrade."

"Hi Russ, Thanks for your reply. Answer to your comments below: 1. MyCanvas is for Book Publishing but also for charts. Basically what I want is a big wall type chart so I've been investigating that. With Legacy you can design big charts and…"

"Stephanie, Thank you for your comments: MyCanvas, as I understand it, is more for Book publishing. The limitation on printing of Charts is what type of Printer do you have access to. With Family Tree Maker you may be able to generate a PDF file…"

"I just installed my new FTM2010 the other day and find it to be a real computer hog and very slow to load as you say. It does do as promised in regards to being able to download a complete file including pictures and stories from your Ancestry.com…"