Re: Family Tree Maker 2012 Sync Problems
Well not really ... if the download stops it ruins or damages some of the pictures ... and you have to retrieve them from your previous tree name.
View ArticleHints on ancestry not showing on FTM
Why are the hints not consistent between ancestry.com and FTM? I have been noticing that ancestry.com is showing hints (good ones too!) that are not showing up on my synched family tree maker tree.
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Do you have online search turned on in FTM?Tools>Options>General>Search online automatically when connected to the Internet
View ArticleRe: Sourcing Relationships
@silverfox,You indicated: "BTW, a feature of such a structure might include a judgement about the degree of confidence of relationships - similar to the radio buttons for sources:"I agree 100% and so...
View ArticleGedcom Upload results in Living Duplicates
Hi Everyone, I have just purchased FTM for Mac 2 and I am hoping someone may be able to help me or point me in the right direction.I am trying to upload a gedcom created by the Legacy software.It would...
View ArticleRe: Gedcom Upload results in Living Duplicates
First of all you are posting to the FTM Windows board. You may be better advised to post to the FTM Mac board at http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.software.ftmmac/mb.ashxI assume what you are doing is...
View ArticleRe: Gedcom Upload results in Living Duplicates
Wow John - Thank you very much for the very thorough and detailed response.I have been debating FTM for awhile.I was actually not trying a merge, but am trying to import a new Gedcom into FTM Mac 2...
View ArticleRe: Sourcing Relationships
Thanks for the comments KJ. Educational as always.However, I disagree with you on one aspect: that DNA evidence should just be "rolled into" the normal equivalence of a judgement of a relationship...
View ArticleRe: Hints on ancestry not showing on FTM
I had the same problem a couple of years ago and never got a complete answer here. From what I could understand it seems that the Ancestry tree looks for hints in a different way to FTM. I did wonder...
View ArticleRe: Hints on ancestry not showing on FTM
The search algorithms in FTM are different to those in the AMT.Given they are separate applications this should not be too surprising.In fact, it could be considered a bonus as one application may pick...
View ArticleRe: Gedcom Upload results in Living Duplicates
I would recommend opening the Legacy file as a new file in FTM and thoroughly examine it, run the appropriate diagnostic reports etcJohn D
View ArticleRe: Member Connect Queries
Thank you again BurgessDonnelly and keithnuttle.Yes, the message was located in the "sent" folder.
View ArticleRe: Sync Failed-An error occurred while "Preparing data to be downloaded from...
Thank you for the help! I did try again yesterday to no avail. I don't do manual FTM backups since I backup to my external drive regularly but I will start doing that now. Thank you for the reminder....
View ArticleRe: Sync Failed-An error occurred while "Preparing data to be downloaded from...
I was thinking the same thing that you said about online not having what the FTM has. But then my online tree has tons of websites. Ugh, will have to think hard about what to do next. Thanks for the...
View ArticleRe: Sync Failed-An error occurred while "Preparing data to be downloaded from...
Thank you for sharing your experience. I've got to really think hard about my next step. Please update if you got the upload to work.
View ArticleFTM 2012
The time has come for me to say goodbye to this old trusty computer and switch my files over to the new one. The new computer runs Windows 8 and I wondered if FTM 2011 is compatible with that or will I...
View ArticleRe: Sync Failed-An error occurred while "Preparing data to be downloaded from...
My 'new' tree - uploaded from a backup - is working fine, so far. By the way, a downloaded tree doesn't have tasks, either! Also some notes - I forget which ones.
View ArticleRe: Hints on ancestry not showing on FTM
Thanks. That makes sense I guess. It would be better though, IMHO to either sync the hints or run both type of searches in both places. Especially for Ca birth records. In FTm the mothers maiden name...
View ArticleRe: FTM 2012
You should not have any problems as long as this new computer is a PC and not one of the Tablets such as the Surface. But the new Surface Pro that was just released should be running the same OS as any...
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