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Title: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: Barbara1 on Thursday 03 May 12 19:26 BST (UK)

My tree is on Ancestry, and I am think of putting Family Tree Maker on my computer also. I understand that it is possible to transfer your Ancester Tree too FTM. From what I have read on the internet, this is not as easy as the advertising makes out.

Does anyone have any experience of doing this.


Thanks

Barbara

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: groom on Thursday 03 May 12 19:29 BST (UK)

Hi

I had no problems. In Ancestry you just go to manage your tree, export tree as a Gedcom file. Then you just upload that to FTM. It doesn't save photos etc.

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: Liz_in_Sussex on Thursday 03 May 12 20:09 BST (UK)

 ;D  It's really easy - and I love FTM 12 - be prepared to *waste* a lot of time playing with it - and wonder how you ever managed without it! 

Liz

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: Barbara1 on Thursday 03 May 12 22:15 BST (UK)

Thanks for the replies. Just one thing, I have about 7 different Ancestry Trees, can Family Tree Maker  accommodate them all ? Oh and can you download the program straight off the web or do you have to have the disk. Sorry I am newbie to this.

Barbara

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: groom on Friday 04 May 12 00:45 BST (UK)

I think you need to buy the disk and copy this onto your hard drive- I believe some versions include a few months subscription to Ancestry. I have FTM 2009 and have several trees on there.

http://www.familytreemaker.com/Content/Downloads/Guides/QuickStart_US_2012.pdf

Looking at that,it looks as if the 2012 version does allow you to import photos

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It will
include not only your names, dates, and places, but all the facts,
sources, and images you have manually attached to the tree

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: Barbara1 on Friday 04 May 12 08:10 BST (UK)

Thanks.


Thinks I will go and treat myself them.
 :D

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: halfasheep on Friday 04 May 12 12:33 BST (UK)

I tried FTM having used countless other programmes over the years, and the fact that it links directly into Ancestry to give you "matches" on your relatives has been a godsend for me.

The amount of information I have found, and numerous new relatives I've been in contact with has been amazing.

Also helped me go back another generation on one line (I double-checked everything myself obviously).

The only downside is the false-positive results, but if you're confident in your abilities, or already have a lot of info on a particular person, you can cut through that quite quickly

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: mshrmh on Friday 04 May 12 14:22 BST (UK)

If you're in the UK & have Tesco clubcard vouchers these can be used to purchase Family Tree Maker - showing at the moment as the Platinum 2012 edition for £19 of vouchers & World 2012 edition for £30 of vouchers
http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/spend.asp

Title: Re: Family Tree Maker & Ancestry
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 04 May 12 14:37 BST (UK)

Or if you can bear the 2011 edition, cheaper on ebay.

Pauline