FAMILY TREE MAKER to be discontinued!

[groom]

It does seem rather silly people threatening to cancel their subscription to Ancestry - as you say, what will they gain by that? No other site will sync with FTM, so I can't see the point, as whatever you use you will still have to manually update it. It's probably idle threats in a lot of cases, in the hope that Ancestry will reconsider. That won't happen! 

[smudwhisk]

Someone has apparently started a petition to try and get Ancestry to reconsider, that's as much use as threatening to cancel their subscription.   As you say, Ancestry aren't likely to reconsider, they've not backed down on any other major change they have made.

It could have been worse, they could have ended support at the end of this year rather than next year.

[KGarrad]

I use FTM on two separate laptops,  6000 miles apart, due to lifestyle and use the online tree (kept private of course ) to sync and keep and the two FTMs up to date.   With the expiry of the online version in due course, can anyone give me any advice on how to keep my tree synced and up to date when dealing with two laptops (and no, I do not wish to carry one half way around the world each time I travel )

Thanks.

YB

Export from 1 laptop in GEDCOM format (or FTM format?).
Copy that file to a USB stick - or email to oneself - or copy to Dropbox (or similar).

After travel import the saved file to the 2nd laptop.

Easy-peasy!!

[Yellowbird]

Thank you groom and KGarrad, I can certainly do that

[andycand]

hi

Could I ask a question about synching media. If you had an image to FTM does that then upload to Ancestry when you synch?

Andy

[stonechat]

hi

Could I ask a question about synching media. If you had an image to FTM does that then upload to Ancestry wihen you synch?

Andy

Yes

[andycand]

hi

Could I ask a question about synching media. If you had an image to FTM does that then upload to Ancestry wihen you synch?

Andy

Yes

I have wondered about that, and where they would stand legally. The Terms and Conditions of Ancestry do put the onus on the subscriber to ensure they have permission to upload material from sources other than Ancestry but I have wondered how synching would be viewed legally. Somehow I couldn't imagine Findmypast giving permission to upload Parish Register images from their website to Ancestry.

ps Apologies for typos in previous post as I was rushing out.

Andy

[Beeonthebay]

hi

Could I ask a question about synching media. If you had an image to FTM does that then upload to Ancestry wihen you synch?

Andy

Yes

I have wondered about that, and where they would stand legally. The Terms and Conditions of Ancestry do put the onus on the subscriber to ensure they have permission to upload material from sources other than Ancestry but I have wondered how synching would be viewed legally. Somehow I couldn't imagine Findmypast giving permission to upload Parish Register images from their website to Ancestry.

ps Apologies for typos in previous post as I was rushing out.

Andy

Yikes I have done that!!  Though my tree is private and I also disabled the button to be found in a search........

[bugbear]

hi

Could I ask a question about synching media. If you had an image to FTM does that then upload to Ancestry wihen you synch?

Andy

Yes

Ah - I'd always wondered why so many people were carefully uploading pictures to the site.

 BugBear