tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post6260293583030675920..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Family Tree Maker 2012The Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-48787002288471142352013-07-18T00:22:01.204-06:002013-07-18T00:22:01.204-06:00Isn't the ability to save and sync your Family...Isn't the ability to save and sync your Family Tree Maker files on Ancestry more accurately described as a "free" backup provider service as opposed to Cloud storage? <br /><br />To my understanding Cloud storage is being able to store selected files on the internet so you can share them and access them whenever you wish on any device, i.e. Nook, Kindle, Ipad, tablet, surface or smartphone. Until there are reasonable apps available for all the popular devices you are limited to finding a PC somewhere that is running the correct version of FTM.<br /><br />~Skip<br /><br />Follow me on Twitter @Skip_MagyarAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15154749999811634852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-63021288375333581362013-03-31T19:21:13.568-06:002013-03-31T19:21:13.568-06:00Can anyone help me? I did a lot of work on Family ...Can anyone help me? I did a lot of work on Family Tree Maker 2003, Version 11. This included printing out my Grandpa Ley's family tree on paper, taping them up, until it reached nine feet long. I also had my other grandparents, back to the 1700's; and my husband's Swedish family. Then I joined Ancestry.com for a year. I understand they took over FTM. NOW ALL MY FILES ARE LOST, GONE ... WHAT HAPPENED? Did Ancestry.com eat up my old FTM files? I dread typing in all that info again ... I dropped out of Ancestry.com as I didn't like being sucked in to an automatic renewal. If I go back to them, can anyone get my old files back ... thanks, Nancy RuthAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06733259571581600101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-71212370475178659082012-03-25T13:08:29.653-06:002012-03-25T13:08:29.653-06:00FTM understands LDS data. It has an LDS option and...FTM understands LDS data. It has an LDS option and an LDS Ordinance Report. It does not talk to new.FamilySearch.org.The Ancestry Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-39687536619045517202012-03-14T07:37:58.368-06:002012-03-14T07:37:58.368-06:00Yes,they do and we are happy for the partnership, ...Yes,they do and we are happy for the partnership, but as of this date, they only have 1.2 million of our names loaded and we have a million more on our website. We have provided them the updates and I am hoping that they will soon incorporate the additional names because it is wonderful for people using Ancestry to connect with this local index.Hayes Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07162454787572437698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-16054749597094349132012-03-13T19:04:50.500-06:002012-03-13T19:04:50.500-06:00Congrats on your FTM 2012 initiation! FTM has a lo...Congrats on your FTM 2012 initiation! FTM has a lot of advantages, especially the ability to filter people based on specific criteria and create reports and charts that can't be done at Ancestry. Just be aware that not everything syncs between Ancestry and FTM. Also, FTM has lots of bugs, especially the Mac version, which is based on the Windows version. See my full review of FTM for Mac 2 at http://genealogytools.com/family-tree-maker-for-mac-2-review/.Keith Rigglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09211666785587732418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-6247526523055456472012-03-13T18:55:22.951-06:002012-03-13T18:55:22.951-06:00Ancestry.com also hosts this index, which makes it...Ancestry.com also hosts this index, which makes it super easy for Ancestry users to graft data onto their trees.Keith Rigglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09211666785587732418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-60212830257149526812012-03-13T18:05:12.096-06:002012-03-13T18:05:12.096-06:00I have been looking around at my options to conver...I have been looking around at my options to convert from PAF to another genealogy package. I have a lot of information on 2 Ancestry.com trees -mother's side and dad's side. My question is - do Ancestry trees and/or FTM 2012 handle LDS ordinance data? I have tried searching around the ancestry learning center and help and google, but can't find anything that tells me what to do with LDS data. If FTM and Ancestry do handle ordinances, they seem to be keeping it secret. Do you have any information about this? I do know that they don't sync with nFS.Marian Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07558258780164233080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-26545082933547107192012-03-13T09:58:46.792-06:002012-03-13T09:58:46.792-06:00AI, do you know, or can you find out if Ancestry.c...AI, do you know, or can you find out if Ancestry.com is eventually intending to allow use of an API so that other genealogy software packages besides FTM can take advantage of synching and/or matching? I commend FamilySearch for doing so with FamilySearch Family Tree (nFS). Is Ancestry intentionally being uncooperative?<br /><br />For those with Ancestry Member Trees who just want to be able to run an occasional report and not necessarily sync, a GEDCOM of your tree can be imported into a genealogy software package of your choice, including those that are free. Of course, some people go the other direction, uploading a GEDCOM to create an Ancestry Member Tree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-69822865927951668202012-03-13T09:40:55.058-06:002012-03-13T09:40:55.058-06:00This has been one of the most educational of all y...This has been one of the most educational of all your blog posts! Learning how to sort through to Ohio (I also have OH issues), fix names/locations and a centralized RBHayes resources is great! I guess it's time to load FTM2012 and download from Ancestry.com. I've done most of my work there and didn't want to have to go back and forth.weskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11558846585517085544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-38794133134846744892012-03-13T09:06:05.152-06:002012-03-13T09:06:05.152-06:00Re: your Ohio roots - be sure to check out the fre...Re: your Ohio roots - be sure to check out the free website Ohio Obituary Index (www.rbhayes.org/index) which indexes 2.1 million Ohio names before you come. The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center hosts this index, partnering with 50 public libraries in Ohio. You might find an obit you want to look up. Most of the newspapers indexed have not been digitized yet, so a field trip to a library (gasp!) might be necessary.<br />Becky Hill, Head Librarian, Hayes Presidential CenterHayes Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07162454787572437698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-31655390104776135432012-03-13T08:29:28.692-06:002012-03-13T08:29:28.692-06:00I hope no one comes along and draws and quarters y...I hope no one comes along and draws and quarters you for being ( gasp) a fan of cloud based genealogy. I also keep my primary record on Ancestry, it's happy up there and I can share just by setting it as public although it will always be a work in progress. I DO use FTM though and used PAF for years before. Not so much for finding who lived where, but for creating GEDCOM files to attach to email to send to others, usually those for whom I have solved some problem or another.<br />But, just between you and I, I have been just short of ripped to shreds by those stuck in the age of analog who think the important part is the original piece of paper,,,,,,, short of photos and the occasional original ( but usually not official) birth or death certificate worthy of framed display. Not so, the important part of all those old documents is the information recorded on them. So, my paper records are in banker's boxes fairly loosely arranged by surname out in the garage except the ones waiting to be scanned and the scanned documents or photos uploaded to my Ancestry Tree. My public tree is there for sharing, aka " networking" and it's worked. I've had wonderful luck " cousin fishing" and made contacts I otherwise never would have. I don't care if people " steal my hard work" , it will work exponentially harder the more people have access to it; if they happen to use it in an in progress, incomplete, or imperfect state, that's their problem not mine. I don't have six LDS generations of work to build on, I'm a first generation convert , blessing and a curse since when I began to do family history I had absolutely nothing to build on on my mother's side, beginning with a " tabula rasa" was a lot of hard work and brick walls, but I didn't have to fix granny's " family history" in which she had traced one of her lines " back to Adam". When teaching or assisting others who have these records from granny, correcting mistakes is priority one and it's somewhat sad for granny's family to see how blatantly erroneous her work was,,,, I have found big errors in the first couple of generations and scary stuff further back. Now I am convinced that many well meaning grannies made stuff up. My daily prayer is now to digitize as many grannies as possible and teach them criteria that will foster the production of family history more valid than that based on hearsay and the desire to gather names for proxy baptism. It's unfortunate that there is so much resistance to this and that FS made some unfortunate decisions in what was part of the site and what could be uploaded and now must backtrack for the sake of improving content. <br />I've said it once and I'll say it again, probably many times, that digitized data will long outlive those boxes of papers out in the garage.<br />Perhaps I need to go scan the foot high pile of land records on the floor beside my desk or the bushel basket of family photos on the kithen table?ldave45https://www.blogger.com/profile/01093870979901228548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-67273766248277825582012-03-13T07:04:18.062-06:002012-03-13T07:04:18.062-06:00Well, Russ, I do see now you can export the custom...Well, Russ, I do see now you can export the custom reports as 'columns' and it does turn out the way I want. I had called the ancestry help desk months ago to ask about this...thanks for making me take a 2nd look at all the options.Celtic Treehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722841959389221214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-88197691232623107242012-03-13T06:14:33.335-06:002012-03-13T06:14:33.335-06:00The Ancestry Insider,
Welcome to FTM2012.
Here i...The Ancestry Insider,<br /><br />Welcome to FTM2012.<br /><br />Here is my approach:<br /><br />http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/2009/06/library-visit-family-tree-maker-version_28.html<br /><br />Although that blog post is for FTM2009, the same would work in FTM2012.<br /><br />@MidwestAncesTree - the SAME report from FTM2012 took me 4 Reports in Version 16. I blogged about that as well. I was comparing Version 16 to Version 2009.<br /><br />You CAN Export to a .CSV file for EXCEL in FTM2012.<br /><br />RussCousin Russhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00326890362591254874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-59420840913114554382012-03-13T05:12:45.011-06:002012-03-13T05:12:45.011-06:00I, too, keep all my info on ancestry.com but have ...I, too, keep all my info on ancestry.com but have found FTM2012 useful for a few things. You can "clean up" all your locations in FTM2012. Go to the "Places" menu. you can scroll through the list and see all the occurrences of a place...including misspellings, abbreviations, missed counties. You can correct all instances of those incorrect entries in one fell swoop right there. You can also see all of the people in your tree who have that location attached to them. It is my favorite feature of this program.<br /><br />I do wish they would bring back the old FTM16 custom report so I could export a list to excel and sort to my heart's content.Celtic Treehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722841959389221214noreply@blogger.com