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 Well that has been a good start.

The Gorse Fox fired up the only remaining Windows laptop (Osprey) and triggered the update process... after all, there's always a bunch of updates to apply to Windows. Then, when everything was underway, he downloaded a copy of Family Tree Maker (FTM), and Family Book Creator (FBC). Both installed seamlessly. The next task was to backup the FTM files from the Mac (Condor) and take a copy across to Osprey. The files were then restored to FTM. There were several errors reported, but the Gorse Fox ignored them for now. The important thing was to try FBC and see if he could get any output that would be useful and presentable.

The Gorse Fox picked an ancestor at random and told FBC to create a book of the individual and his descendants. It blinked, then started to wade through the data. Ten minutes later, the Gorse Fox had a very presentable booklet. He tried again, on another ancestor, 30 minutes later he had a 108 page book. The Gorse Fox is very impressed. Now, that's not say that the output is perfect. There is clearly some tweaking to perform on the images, and some of the text. This will take some time, but is best done back in the FTM database so that, once correct, it will always be correct in any future publication.

Tomorrow the Gorse Fox will start to review some of the YouTube videos so that he can try to pick up all of the best practices.

In the afternoon we collected Ellie from school. She spent the afternoon playing schools with the Silver Vixen. Once we had all had our dinner and cleared away, we took Ellie home so that she could settle in before Urban-Cub got home just after 7pm. This worked quite well and we will probably do this again when she has a shift ending after 6:30pm.