Start a Descent Tree with your father. Create an individual with just his surname. FTM assumes a single name is a surname. Enter your father s birth date, leaving the death date blank. Enter a child of your father, with your mother s surname.
Gender is unimportant.
Enter your mother s birth date. Continue outward along your father s line in the Ahnentafel. Each family of note should be entered as another child on your father s Family Page, with the connecting individual s birth date. Continue with all the other lines. If there are duplicates in your tree, the reason for entering the birth dates will become apparent.