I have made a group of instructions and keep them in a file to share with friends who ask. If you have any questions, just ask and if I know I will try to help...Betty

 

 Creating a Word Document from Family Tree Maker

Open your family Tree Maker file and highlight the oldest person that you want to descend your line from. On the row at the top of the window, click on Genealogy Report (many of the words are abbreviated). After the window comes up, go to contents and show how many generations you want to copy. This is an easy way to leave out the younger, still living generations. You may want to change some of the things in "format" or "contents". Just play with it until you get the look that you like. Go to file, click on "export file" and you can save it in whatever file you would like. I have a "Family file" in "my documents" and in that file I have folders with different families etc..
Other things you can do with Family Tree maker family files are fun also. You can make the ancestor charts, Outline the entire line of a given person, do a family group sheet, report, which tells the kinship of all in the file..that is fun...all of these things can be done with the row of icons just above the file window.
Good luck...Betty Pickens Phillips

SULFNBK.EXE is a Windows system file that restores long file names in the case of a catastrophic crash. You'll probably never need it, but why take the risk?

Here is how to restore SULFNBK.EXE on Windows 98 and 98 SE:

Go to Start --> Run
Type SFC and hit enter.
Click on "Extract one file from installation disk"
In the "Specify the system file you would like to restore" box, type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SULFNBK.EXE and then click on "Start"
On the next screen, you'll see a "Restore from" box. Type in the path to your Windows CAB files (usually C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS). If you can't find the CAB files on your computer, insert your Windows 98 CD and then type *\Win98, replacing * with the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive. For example, if your CD-ROM is your D drive, you would type D:\Win98
Click the OK button.
Here is how to restore SULFNBK.EXE on Windows ME:

Go to Start --> Run.
Type MSCONFIG and hit enter.
Click on the "Extract File ..." button.
In the "Specify the system file you would like to restore" field, type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SULFNBK.EXE and then click on "Start"
On the next screen, you'll see a "Restore from" box. Type in the path to your Windows CAB files (usually C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS). If you can't find the CAB files on your computer, insert your Windows ME CD and then type *\WinME, replacing * with the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive. For example, if your CD-ROM is your D drive, you would type D:\WinME
Click the OK button.
Also, as Fred Langa [ http://www.langa.com/ ] notes,

A good rule of thumb is NEVER to forward any email just because it says "Urgent: Pass this on to everyone!" or comes from a buddy. In fact, anytime you get any email with a "pass this on to everyone!" in it, or a letter that has been forwarded dozens of times, it's almost always (99.99999% of the time) a hoax or scam designed solely to generate a chain letter--- that is, to trick the gullible into perpetrating the hoax.

Don't be taken in! It only takes *literally* a minute to find out about if any email about:

supposed virus alerts (even if the email says they're "confirmed by IBM, Microsoft, AOL and Oracle" or some such)
pending legislation, including email surcharges and taxes
sick/dying/missing children who need email or prayers
body part theft rings
free vacation giveaways
free money or products from Bill Gates (or Disney or AOL or Nokia or....) to those who forward the most emails
foreign government workers who will pay you to let them move large sums of money through your bank account
or any of hundreds of similar chain letters.
These are ALL almost always pure, utter hoaxes and scams.

Keep that in the mind the next time you get a virus warning in your email inbox.

 Scanning and Saving Text & Photos for E-mailing
(I use Hewlett Packard Precision Scan)

On your scanner window at the top, go to settings--then page settings--set custom resolutions to 300 DPI--click on "save this custom resolution and use every time"--Click OK-- In "Scan To" line, set to "Image & text file"--Set to scan in color or not--On tool bar at top, go to settings--to preferences--turn off "auto detect"-- On Photo quality do "Best true color"(Most of these settings will stay and will not have to be redone till you want them redone.)--click scan--After it scans, I go to tool bar on top to View & click "entire scanner bed"--click on the box with the dashes made into a box with an arrow in it. Frame the part of the picture you want with the dashes. You may just want one person in a group. go to settings on top of the window--then to size--then region size. Click specify custom size--then If you want a small photo to e-mail, change the SMALLER of the two to 1, the other will follow in ratio. click OK. On the window that comes up, click file--then "save as"--in the "Save in" line, make sure you have a folder that you can find. I save mine in "My Documents" then move to folders. At the bottom in the "Save as type" line, click on JPEG file, Name your small picture with an "E" at the end for e-mail and click save. After it saves, x out of all. Go to the file where you saved the picture. ---To Print out: If you are saving the picture for printing, save it full size for better quality. Double click on the name of your picture--it will come up on a window--In the tool bar at the top, click image--then image properties--click "Maintain image ratio" (If you ever forget to do this and get a whop-sided picture, just don't save and x out and start over)--go to the larger picture and make it whatever size you want the picture to be--the other will stay in ratio--such as 5x7 or 8x10 ETC. say OK-- on toolbar in new window, click on print icon--go to properties and set all up--click OK-- click on what kind of paper and quality you want, print preview and if you like it, click print--When it says "save changes to the picture" say "no", this will let the picture stay saved the way you have it. If you scan and save a picture for e-mailing, save at 1x1something and for scanned text, save at 2 inches for the width. It has to be at least that big to read it. It will be page size when it arrives at its destination.
E-mail: You can send pictures by attachment or as inserts. As an insert, put the format to rich Text or HTML. Put the cursor on the body of the letter where you want the picture to go--go to insert--then click on picture--then browse--then find the picture file, retrieve it--click OK and it will appear in your letter. It will be like this:
Sunset in my backyard in Texas.

One more thing..If you have a picture to copy and want a good clear copy, after you have scanned, blocked off what part you want, and are in settings and region size....go ahead and put in the size of the picture that you want such as 8x10 or whatever, go ahead and print out and then after it prints, if you want to save, make the size back to 1x1 something. You will get a better copy before it is saved. Good luck...Hope this helps...Betty

I am using a Dell AIO Scanner and my computer is a new Dell with a Pentium 4 processor and 2 G of memory, so it is fast. The old computer I had would not have let me scan and do anything else at the same time. If your computer won’t let you do something else and scan at the same time, just adapt these instructions to your equipment. I have tried many ways to do the scans and save in Adobe & complete the file. These instructions are written for the way I found to be the quickest and the best quality on the pages. If you find some way that is better on both, please let me know.
First open Paper Port 9 and create a new file, for Paper Port to save what you are about to scan. You will need this file open when you start to scan. Also make a second new file to store the same scans when you convert to PDF. For your settings, click Scan and go to the blue “settings”, “File Type” JPEG, and the options to “good quality” or larger file.
Set the DPI on the scanner at 300 and scan in Black Text. If you scan any other way, the scan won’t let the “Paper Capture” make the index for searching. It takes a while for the scan to process, so as soon as it is quiet, get the next page ready to scan, name & fix the last one you did. This keeps you at a fast pace, but you can scan, name, & fix forty pages in at least an hour. On all scans after the first, as soon as the scan starts, click the gray Paper Port desktop and start to work on the last one. You should be able to complete it before the scan processes. You may not have to name your pages if you are scanning them in numerical order. The computer will number them and keep in order. If you do have to name them, you can do a copy / paste on the name, if it needs one, and only have to add the page number. On the paperport window, highlight the page to be worked on, go to the “page” icon on the top left, click and the page will come up in a new window. Click the auto straighten first (It is found in “Page” on the top tool bar.) if it is needed and then crop. Most of the time that is all you will have to do because you have cropped off the “dirty” spots. Sometimes, there are gray or black places left to remove with the eraser. Click the save icon on top tool bar then go to the desktop icon on the top left and click to go back to main page. Repeat for each page.
Don’t delete the JPEG file until you are sure you have completed the PDF file and won’t need the scans any more. Sometime I have had to replace a page just before I finish the file and make the CD.
Next, when all have been scanned and fixed, with scan window open, “select all”, file, save as, (be sure you save in the Paper Port 9 folder you prepared for the purpose,& save in PDF.) In the file name, I put (example) “1982 Book 3 Page”. This was the name of each of the pages after it was saved and all I had to do was add the number. I have to scan mine out of order so it is necessary to have the page numbers in the name so it will line up correctly in the file. After they are saved in PDF, since mine are not scanned in numerical order, I have to add the page number again, so I can probably get by with not naming them the first time as I scan them. I’ll see about that. Again, you won’t have to do this if you are scanning them in numerical order.
You need to check the pages and if some of them need to be darker, do this now. Close Paper Port.

There is more than one way to do this next step. One is: Stack all the pages in your new PDF file. For example, if you have 25 pages, let the #25 be on the bottom, drag and drop #24 on that, then # 23 ETC. When they are all stacked, drag and drop them on the Adobe icon at the bottom and all your pages will go to a new Adobe file and open in Adobe. Open the “Pages” tab and check to see if the pages are in the correct order. If they are, go on to the “Paper capture”, which I address a little later in these instructions. If you have 2 or more Adobe files to make into one file, this is what you do:
Open Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro. Go to “file”, “create PDF file”, “from multi. Files”, in next window, “browse”, go to the new folder you just put all of the PDF pages in. Open the folder and put the curser on one of the files, ctrl A to highlight or select all of them, add, new window, use this window to get the pages in the order you want them in the finished file. (Use move up or down after you have highlighted the page you want to move. When you have everything set, say OK. They will go into Adobe as a PDF file. Save this file at this time in another name such as Master whatever, and keep it as one you can go back to if you mess up. Open it again. Next time you save it, give another name so you will have a good one and one to work on until you have completely finished this book.
First go to pages tab and check to see if the pages are all there and in order. Open first page. Go to “Document” on top tool bar, paper capture, make sure the “Find ALL suspects” is checked on and start capture. In the window that comes up, make sure the “all” is checked or that the #1 to last, is designated to capture. Go to “edit” and click on these 3: English US, Searchable Image (Exact), and Low 300 DPI, click OK. Be sure to do “Paper Capture” first, because if you do the reduce file first, the capture won’t work after you have reduced the file size. This capture takes a few minutes so take a break and let the computer work. If there are any that won’t capture, write down the number and do it, or them, one at a time after you finish the group. It will bring up each page as it works on it. When the capture is finished, try out the search and make sure it works. (and it will…grin) click done and go to the pages tab on the left to bring up the page with the table of contents. Go to bookmark tab, go to “select text” icon on the top left , click, highlight first item in contents, right click on it, tell to make bookmark. After you do the first bookmark, highlight and go to options at top of bookmarks, properties, choose your style and color for your bookmarks. Go back to options and click “Use current appearance as new default” & “Wrap long bookmarks”.
Go back to bookmarks, & highlight the last one so the next can follow if you need a sub bookmark. If the next one just needs to stand on it’s own, don’t highlight the last one. Go to your next item on the contents page & highlight it, using the “select text” tool. Right click , make bookmark….continue until all in contents have bookmarks. If there is something you need to change in the bookmark, just click on, highlight it, and correct it. These bookmarks made this way have the page destination already set.
To make the sub-bookmarks and set destination for them: Go back and fourth between the Pages tab and the bookmark tab to find any pages that may not be bookmarked and make sub-bookmarks for them. To do this, click the bookmark icon on the top of the bookmark window, a bookmark will appear saying untitled, beneath the one you have highlighted, highlight the new bookmark first, then go to the page you need next, bring it up to bookmarks, go to options, tell it to make it the destination for that page. Then you can type in a name for it. You can copy & Paste the bookmarks by using the right click. When you come to a page that is a continuation of the last page you will need to make a sub-bookmark. Sub-bookmarks go in place by: Highlight and then drag under parent bookmark. Move it around until a small red line will appear near the left side of the bottom of the parent bookmark and that is time to drop. The next sub will go in if you have the last one highlighted and go to icon and make a new one. To stop the Parent /child process, close the parent by clicking on the minus sign on its left side. On any bookmarks or sub-bookmarks that represent pages with pictures, be sure to type the word “Picture” on the bookmark before the name of the person or place pictured. This will let the search find the pictures on the bookmark tabs. Finish all the bookmarks and check to see if all of the destinations are correct. Go to options and tell it to collapse the top-level bookmarks. Bring up first page. Go to top tool bar and Document and run again the paper capture, making sure that the “ALL suspects” is checked. It will take a while…take a break. Redo any pages that fail to capture. When it has finished, check the search for “Picture” and a few other words to make sure it works correctly.
Next, go to Advanced on the top tool bar, click on PDF optimize, audit space at the top, write down the number at the bottom, (Just to check how many million bytes of space you are about to save.) Say cancel. Go to file, check on “reduce file size”, then compatible with Adobe 6.0 & later. “Save as” in a dummy file that has a name such as “test” so you can still have the good file, just in case. After you save it, recheck that number in “advanced” and write it down. You will be in a page where you can make sure the “Enable Adoptive Compression” is on. The top part of the page will be inaccessible when it is checked on. On the page, check OK and it will save as again. Replace the same dummy file you just did. When it finishes, go to the “Audit space” and check the number again and write it down. It should be millions of bytes smaller.
“Save as” again the same way as last with the check on the “Enable Adoptive Compression”. Each time you “save as” it takes off about another 1000 bytes. A total of 3 or 4 times to “Save as” are all you need to do. It reaches a point that it starts getting bigger for some reason. Check your numbers, write them down, and compare them each time you “save as”. The last time you check the number, just say cancel and it won’t save as again. This process saves about 58 million bytes on 40 pages. This will let me put the entire 91 quarterlies on one CD and have space left over. Check the “search again, Make sure all the pages are turned right (For some reason, the paper capture will sometime turn the pages sideways or upside down and you will have to rotate one at a time, be careful to set it that way or they will all turn) and in numerical order and then save and close the file. Go to the saved file, Highlight it. Go to file and rename what you want it to be. Open the new PDF file and recheck to make sure it is ready for the CD. You have finished a book! Congratulations!...Enjoy…Betty Phillips
P.S. You can probably tell that I am the type who likes to “Measure twice and cut once.” Maybe after we are all more comfortable with these new programs, we can be less cautious and not be afraid to make fewer files for “Just in case”, and less “checking”. By the way, don’t forget to delete all the extra files and all the scans that you are finished with. They take up a lot of space on the hard drive...BP

Open your family file to Family Page. Go to file--click on Copy/Export
Family File--you get a new window--in the "save in" line, put "My
Documents"-- in the "file name" line, put the name you want your file to
be--in the "save as type" line, scroll down and highlight
"FTM for DOS - uses GEDCOM (*.GED)" and put it in the line --click
"save"--you get a new window--click "fields to export" you get a new
window--make sure you have chosen to save all fields so you can get all of
the notes etc. in the new file. --click OK-- you go back to the last
window---click OK-- The file will save. When you go to "My Documents", it
will look like a little tree with your file name by it.

Before you burn a CD of a family file or send it via the net, make a gedcom
file (little tree) and copy or send that as an attachment. In order for
someone to be able to open a file that has been put on a CD or has been sent
over the internet, you have to send it as a gedcom file. The receiver opens
the little tree usually. You can open the gedcom file yourself and send it
over the net by sending the part with the little blue icon. The icon looks
like the one on the original file, but the file is different and that
difference lets it be opened.

To open a gedcom file (little tree):

Make sure you CLOSE all family files. Go to the Gedcom file (little tree)
that you want to open--click on the tree--you get a new window--tell it to
save in "My Documents"--Make sure the file name appears in the file name
window. (You may want to name the file something such as "Phillips Family by
Betty Phillips" and this will distinguish your new file from any other
Phillips family files you may have. It will also let you know later whose
version of the family this file is.) click save--you will get a new
window--Mark the "Keep first part if location fields are too long"--click
"fields to export"--one at a time, click on all of the fields and say import
field, till you have saved them all. If change field comes up just click OK
and keep going. When you have gotten them all, click OK--old window will
come back--click OK--it will save--you get a new window--it will say whether
or not there were any errors--say OK if there were none--say no I don't want
to see them if there were some--Your new file will open. --Close it out or
minimize it and go to "My Documents". --Go to file and make & name a new
folder.--One at a time click on the files with the blue and the red icons
and drag them into the folder. You can delete the one that has a windows
icon and your file name with LST following it....Enjoy....Betty Phillips

Making a Border for your E-mail Stationary Using Outlook Express

In the tool bar at the top, go to Message....Then to New Message...then Select Stationary...At the bottom of the window that comes up, click "Create New". Stationary Wizard comes up. Click "Next" and follow instructions. You can pick out a pattern, preview it, position it on the page & tile it to go all the way to the bottom or part way of the page ETC. Pick out color or no color for the whole page background,with the design on it. Click "Next", Pick out Font, size, color ETC. Click "Next", Set margins, "Next", Name that particular stationary and click finish. Go to "New Message" or space beside it on the tool bar to use it. Make several for different occasions...Have fun!...Love...Betty

 Creating a Word Document from Family Tree Maker

Open your family Tree Maker file and highlight the oldest person that you want to descend your line from. On the row at the top of the window, click on Genealogy Report (many of the words are abbreviated). After the window comes up, go to contents and show how many generations you want to copy. This is an easy way to leave out the younger, still living generations. You may want to change some of the things in "format" or "contents". Just play with it until you get the look that you like. Go to file, click on "export file" and you can save it in whatever file you would like. I have a "Family file" in "my documents" and in that file I have folders with different families etc..
Other things you can do with Family Tree maker family files are fun also. You can make the ancestor charts, Outline the entire line of a given person, do a family group sheet, report, which tells the kinship of all in the file..that is fun...all of these things can be done with the row of icons just above the file window.
Good luck...Betty Pickens Phillips

 Setting the time on an Older Sewing Machine

Line up top line (on rod that holds the needle) with underside, Needle down. Loosen first screw to lower or raise, then line bottom line on bottom, needle down-- Shuttle carried hook will be directly behind needle, if not, loosen both screws (Places with Allen wrench) , set hook behind needle, then tighten both screws. Be careful not to strip Allen screw places--turn slow and easy. Good Luck...Betty