"one logged into Ancestry.com and one with FTM software up and running"
This is the reason you should work to be proficient in one program or the other. Would you run your financial database in Quattro Pro and concurrently in Excel?
Decide which program will be your primary program and do all of your work in that program. If you want an online tree, upload or sync the tree to the online provider.
With two program you are four times more likely to create problem than if you are running one program. You will always being updating or adding to one that will not get transferred to the other.
This is the reason you should work to be proficient in one program or the other. Would you run your financial database in Quattro Pro and concurrently in Excel?
Decide which program will be your primary program and do all of your work in that program. If you want an online tree, upload or sync the tree to the online provider.
With two program you are four times more likely to create problem than if you are running one program. You will always being updating or adding to one that will not get transferred to the other.