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Re: old value of Brother's Keeper

August 11, 2009, 8:21 am
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What version of BK is she using?

I am using the current version 6.

I been using BK for about 15 years with not problems.

Jim
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Re: old value of Brother's Keeper

August 12, 2009, 9:00 am
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I'm also a BK user.

As for your questions:

1 - yes, it's a long standing program in the field, with regular updates.

2 - Define better. If you have some specific requirements, you'd have to state them.

3 - Yes and no. Any reasonably modern genealogy program can export and import GEDCOMs, so in that sense, yes. Can she shift from BK to say Family Tree Maker with absolutely no loss of data, probably not. Note, that the same is true for almost all programs. Very few programs can fully read the data sets from another program. So, if she wanted to shift from Family Tree Maker to Roots Magic, she'd likely lose data.

4 - What is special, from a computer programming issue, about Australia?

As for notes, you have to select to back up notes, images, media files, etc when you do the backup routine.
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Re: old value of Brother's Keeper

August 12, 2009, 9:32 pm
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Thank-you very much for taking the time to help me, I really appreciate it.

To define what Mum uses BK for. Originally she traced the usual decendents on the paternal side and some on the maternal in Australia. As you would well know this quickly led overseas (away from young Australia) into our anglo english past. She has done quite a lot in this area as well. Now she is looking to do more but also wants to create an "accessible" mini-magazine type of thing with pictures etc for our family.(Thats where I come in at some point to supposedly help). So I guess what I am asking is will the current version of BK do all that well?
Thanks again for your help
Dave
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Re: old value of Brother's Keeper

August 13, 2009, 3:56 am
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Hmm. I'm not seeing anything special or different about the needs for somebody in Australia vs any place else in regards to genealogy programming.

BK can create the standard reports (desendent, ancestor, register, etc) like other programs.

It can auto generate family group sheets in html, including the notes (stories, etc) created for the various events / facts. That report can include one photo per group sheet.

I'm not sure if Any program can really easily auto generate a mini magazine.

What I have done is create a web site, partially from BKs auto generated html family group sheets and partially by hand. I copy the entire site to CD along with an auto executable and mail it.

The auto generated part contains up to date facts, notes and stories about everybody in the database. The hand generated part contains the photos of people.

The problem I've seen with sharing info is what happens when you add a fact to a dozen or so people. With the auto generated html, that fact is published faily easily, albeit not in a very pretty method.

Trying to put out a magazine would mean re-formatting, re-editing or such to add in what is often a few lines of often not critical facts such as they lived in Perth during WWII before moving to a suburb of Perth after the war.

In summary, will BK do what you want? Sort of. Will any program do it better? I don't think so.

BK does have a significant advantage over other programs. The programmer runs a mailing list via rootsweb. He has been very willing to add new types of reports to extract data from the database.

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Re: old value of Brother's Keeper

August 13, 2009, 9:26 pm
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Well thanks again. I am now armed with all the information I needed.Didn't hurt a bit.Thankyou
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Re: how to do a backup

October 9, 2009, 10:19 am
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I copied my text files to a 3.5 floopy (years ago) and when I tried to "restore" to the hard drive of a new computer, the text files didn't go. What did you do to retrieve the text files in your situation....or...what do I do to get my text files from the floppy to the hard drive?
Kirk
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Re: Running Brothers Keeper 5.2G on Windows Vista

October 16, 2009, 3:40 am
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My laptop is offically extinct.

Anyone got 5.2 running on Windows 7? Offically the rpoblems with old software not being able to run on Vista does nto apply to 7 but would like to hear from someone that they are using it successfully first. The story is that not all versions of Windows 7 will run old stuff - the entry elvel Home Premium for example might not. Since I expect that version to eb the one installed on all new pcs it woulod be nice to know if 5.2 will run on it or nto before I replace my old laptop.
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Multiple first names

November 26, 2009, 7:58 am
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I have many people who have multiple first names, especially when a descendant uses a last name as a first name. However, BK only looks for the first of the first names.
Examples:
Martin John Harry Minchin [search for > ? Minchin]
Minchin Frederick Frend [search for > Minchin ?]
Joseph Bernard Minchin Boyle [what do I search? ]

I can find those with Last name Minchin no problem, and Minchin Frederick Frend but the third example seems impossible to find easily.
It is possible if I use Find>Word Serach>Any Field>Create Report. But then I have to sift through hundreds of people (I have over 500 Minchins) with the last name of Minchin, but I want to find those that have Minchin as one of their first names. A long a tedious way of searching.
Has any BK user a simpler method??
Assistance greatly appreciated.
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Re: Deleting Imported Gedcom

January 23, 2010, 11:07 am
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Re: Deleting Imported Gedcom

January 23, 2010, 11:08 am
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out of stack space on Brothers Keeper?

February 20, 2010, 10:51 am
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Hi:
I'm using BK5 and while entering data,it locked up on me and gave me an error message, "out of stack space". Both the edit page AND the main page are locked up tight. Nothing works. I've got plenty of hard drive space so I know that isn't it. Does anyone have ANY idea about this?
Thanks
Sandy
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Win7

February 25, 2010, 1:23 pm
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Does anyone know if there is a way to use Brother's Keeper on Win7?
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Re: Running Brothers Keeper 5.2G on Windows Vista

April 14, 2010, 10:17 pm
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I'm running Vista Home Premium 64-bit and I can't even get the setup program to open.

Can you be a little more specific at how you performed the install?

Were you logged in as a normal user or with an Administrator account?

If you were logged in as a normal user, did you use the "Run as Administrator" option?

Do you have UAC on or off?

Did you use a compatibility mode setting?

Any other details you can provide would be great.
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Re: Running Brothers Keeper 5.2G on Windows Vista

April 15, 2010, 3:53 am
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I have the UAC turned off. As the log in user, I am the Administrator - no other users on my computer. However, I am using Vista - 32 bit, and I see that you have the 64 bit. and that could be the difference.
The older version of BK 5.2 is not designed for the newer 64 bit. There may be a fix for that, but you would have to read the instructions for install.
Sorry, I can't help you - I have no knowledge in that department.
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Re: Running Brothers Keeper 5.2G on Windows Vista

April 15, 2010, 12:49 pm
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No, you helped quite a bit. You have given me several data points. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Andre
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Re: Win7

June 21, 2010, 11:14 am
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BK works fine on Windows 7. I'm running Windows 7 Professional and have no issues at all.
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Re: out of stack space on Brothers Keeper?

October 31, 2010, 7:48 pm
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Greetings,

I too am getting an "Out of Stack Space" error message on my new computer where I transferred my database of 136,000+ names to.

Must keep rooting,

TINY
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How to create a GEDCOM from Brothers Keeper

April 21, 2011, 7:12 am
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I do not use Brothers Keeper but a cousin in NY does. He would like some help in updating his files, I have sent him a GEDCOM from FTM but apparently is having problems with it. So I asked him for a GEDCOM from his Brothers Keeper software, he does not know how to create one, any tips.

Also, he seems to only be able to send a PDF file of descendents report that is so confusing to read. I think the Registry Book report is what I need from him, how does he create that?
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Re: How to create a GEDCOM from Brothers Keeper

June 19, 2011, 6:22 am
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1. First step Go to "File". Click on it.
2. Select Gencom.Click on it.
3. Select export. Click on it.
4. Select All people. Click on it.
5. name the file you are making. type the name of the gencom you are making. press enter.
6. select save. press enter.
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Re: How to create a GEDCOM from Brothers Keeper

June 19, 2011, 8:24 am
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