I exchanged emails with Ancestry Support, and really verified what has been stated here.
In FTM Mac2, you can use standard places and further define with Descriptions, or you can define a Custom Place. You can go back to a standard Place by redefining a Custom Place. You can pin the Custom Place. Importantly, defining and pinning that Custom Place changes, and is available to, all facts which already use or will use that place.
Sync shares the standard Place facts, and puts in the "text" for Custom Places, but online DOES NOT get the custom place location info. You must pin the custom location online separately. And important, and most annoying, the Custom Place only is defined for the fact you are working with. You must go through each and every fact with each and every person that uses the Custom Place and pin it individually - which of course means they won't be identical locations [at least I could not see a way to do that - maybe I missed it]. Here is a portion of the Support reply:
"If you change the pin for a place in your online tree it is only changed for the fact that place is attached to. There is not a way to change the pin for all places with the same name in an online tree. We are constantly making improvements to our website but we cannot say if this particular feature will be changed."
The last statement is in response to my query of whether this feature would be added.
Now that I know how to handle Places, in both "places", they are quite useful and nice. But the lack of a Custom Places list, with associated locations, available to all facts, is a real short-coming, whether or not synced.
I hope this info might be helpful to others, and perhaps they will chime in and ask for sync to fully sync Custom Places, or at least provide a list for the online places like in FTM Mac2.
In FTM Mac2, you can use standard places and further define with Descriptions, or you can define a Custom Place. You can go back to a standard Place by redefining a Custom Place. You can pin the Custom Place. Importantly, defining and pinning that Custom Place changes, and is available to, all facts which already use or will use that place.
Sync shares the standard Place facts, and puts in the "text" for Custom Places, but online DOES NOT get the custom place location info. You must pin the custom location online separately. And important, and most annoying, the Custom Place only is defined for the fact you are working with. You must go through each and every fact with each and every person that uses the Custom Place and pin it individually - which of course means they won't be identical locations [at least I could not see a way to do that - maybe I missed it]. Here is a portion of the Support reply:
"If you change the pin for a place in your online tree it is only changed for the fact that place is attached to. There is not a way to change the pin for all places with the same name in an online tree. We are constantly making improvements to our website but we cannot say if this particular feature will be changed."
The last statement is in response to my query of whether this feature would be added.
Now that I know how to handle Places, in both "places", they are quite useful and nice. But the lack of a Custom Places list, with associated locations, available to all facts, is a real short-coming, whether or not synced.
I hope this info might be helpful to others, and perhaps they will chime in and ask for sync to fully sync Custom Places, or at least provide a list for the online places like in FTM Mac2.