Family Tree Maker 2019 has become highly popular in genealogy for its ability to help you document, organize, and preserve your family history. One of the main standout features is Turn Back Time, which enables you to restore your family tree back to a prior state if an unfortunate change was made. By using this feature, you can roll back multiple changes at once rather than going through and undoing each and every action manually. Such an ability is indispensable for researchers who may unknowingly delete valuable pieces of data, merge together incorrect profiles, or make other undesired changes. In the blog, we will walk you through the Turn Back Time feature and show you how to use it effectively.
How to Use Turn Back Time in FTM 2019?
Here is the process of restoring the family tree with the Turn Back Time feature:
- Open your Family Tree: Open FTM 2019 and go to the Plan workspace.
- Open the Change Log: Click on Current Tree and navigate to the Change Log section, which keeps track of the last 1,000 changes made to your tree.
- Analyze the Changes: The Change Log provides a chronological list of changes made, along with the date, type of record (person, media, or source), and the nature of the modification (addition, change, or deletion).
- Sort and Filter: Make use of the drop-down filters to search the records based on attributes for easier location of the change to undo.
- Locate a Record: If you are trying to find a certain person, media, or source, click on Go To and be taken to that record in FTM 2019.
- Roll Back the Changes: Select any change in the list and click Roll Back Changes to undo that change along with all subsequent modifications made to the record.
- Make a Backup To Roll Back: Due diligence requires creating a backup before reverting any changes. Ensure that you checked the Backup before rolling back the checkbox before proceeding.
- Confirm Rollback: Review the changes to be undone, print such a list if your need be, and then Roll Back Changes to end the remission process.
Why Use the Turn Back Time Feature?
- Avoids data loss: Easily restore data that you unintentionally deleted.
- Saves you time: You do not need to roll back each change One after another.
- Will be more accurate: In the integrity of your family tree.
- Flexible Restoration: Works even after you close and reopen FTM 2019.
Conclusion
FTM 2019’s Turn Back Time feature is an indispensable tool for genealogists committed to preserving accuracy in their family trees. Though mistakes can occur, this feature has enough power to restore your tree to some earlier version rapidly. Through the Change Log and the rollback functions, it is possible to produce an efficient and error-free genealogy record. Always back up before making major changes, to ensure the efforts made will be preserved for posterity.
FAQs Section!
You will be able to review each change before choosing whether to roll back or leave the change as-is. Very often when you roll back a specific change, all changes made thereafter are completely undone.
Change Log currently tracks up to 1000 of the most recent changes made to your tree.
Yes, because Turn Back Time exists in a state of retroactive opportunity, it is not affected by opening and closing the tree: unlike the Undo command.
Absolutely! Always do a backup to protect against accidental loss of data in the process of rolling back or restoring.
If you encounter difficulties, you may want to reach out to the Family Tree Maker Support team for assistance.
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