Fille du Roi as Occupation?

 

If you have roots in 1600s Quebec, you likely have a few Filles du Roi or Filles a Marier on your tree. 

 

I did the genealogy of the family of a friend and they had many Filles a marier and Filles du Roi on their tree. I wanted to highlight them in my genealogy report. I found that the easiest way to keep track of them and make a list was to put Fille du Roi or Fille a Marier as an Occupation fact for that person. 

I am a big fan of the free program FT Analyzer for it's great features. I downloaded the gedcom for the above tree and uploaded it to FT Analyzer, then clicked on Occupations...

You can see that on this tree there are 10 Filles a Marier and 8 Filles du Roi. Clicking on the the occupation will give a list of persons with that occupation. This one is for the Filles a marier.

Although I have no Filles du Roi, I find it handy when looking on my tree for my ancestors that had a certain occupation.

The trick is to be consistent with how you write the occupation. You can see in the sample above I wrote the occupation mason three ways... mason, maçon, maitre maçon, whereas I was more consistent with the soldiers, starting the occupation with Soldat.

Filtering your Tags in your Ancestry Tree.

 

You have used the Tag feature in Ancestry - so how can that help you?

When I establish a DNA match or connection on my Ancestry tree I make sure to tag either the match or the connection, or sometimes both. 

I wanted to find all the people on my tree that have DNA connections, or are a DNA match, so I used the Tag Filters

Go to Tree View on your tree. It doesn't matter if it is family view or pedigree view.

Click on Tree Search (top right), then Filters.

Then choose DNA tags, and you can choose one of three... common ancestor, connection or match. I didn't necessarily want to know the common ancestor, but the person in my tree that the match is descended from. So I will choose DNA Connection.

Click Done. I get a list of all the 15 people I tagged as a DNA connection.

You can do this with all your Tags. I made custom Tags for people that I have found their will. 

I Tag someone when I have ordered their will and change it to Have Will when I receive it. So using the filter Have Will gives me a list of those 11 ancestors.

You can use one of the many pre-set tags that are offered in the four different categories, or you can create custom tags for whatever suits your purpose.

Media Files in Family Tree Maker

 

I have seen people commenting many times in genealogy Facebook groups that they don't like to upload their gedcom to FTM because they can't get the media. That's because all has to be done from the Family Tree Maker program. 

Here is how to get media attached to people on Family Tree Maker.

First open Family Tree Maker and  make sure your uploader is up to date.

Next, make sure you are logged in to Ancestry.

Here some people make the mistake of going to Ancestry, downloading a gedcom of their tree, then importing the tree into Family Tree Maker. You can do that, but you will not get the media files. 

 

Next go to the Ancestry leaves in the top right hand corner and click on Download from Ancestry.

From the new screen you choose your tree that you want to download and follow instructions. This takes a long time when it comes to the downloading media part. You can do other things on your computer in the  meantime, just don't close the FTM screen.

When I downloaded my FTM program I saved the folder in Documents. All the media that downloads with my tree goes in that Family Tree Maker folder creating another folder named the same as your tree... here is it named Seale Family Tree Media

Once the program is finished downloading the media, you are set to go. When you click on a person you can see the media for that person. Here I chose my 2x ggf Andrew Smith Tait. You can see he has 20 facts and 16 media.

Any records, images, and stories will download with the tree. Since they are now downloaded onto your computer, they are there to stay, even if you do not renew your membership. The only thing it seems that does not download are all the Web Links I had attached to each person. 

One thing I WISH I had done from the beginning of time, is rename the media as it was attached in Ancestry. Now, for example, in the Seale Family Media Files folder there are 93 images named Lancashire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911. I would have to open each one to see who it belonged to. Something to add to my To Do list.