Re: Add media to sources, source citations or both?
Rosemary,I use some limited source media. Here are three examples:- cover of a register book and any special pages that describe the information contained in the book. Many of my Italian registers have...
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I can add my own experience to this. I used CTRL+F5 yesterday to download my missing citation media. My ancestry.com is currently inactive, so I was only expecting to get the 1880 census. To my...
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Rosemary/Russ’ comment“So you can definitely link the media to a source, whether you have a citation or not, although for the life of me I can't see what good it does you.”Here is an example of what...
View ArticleThinking about buying FTM 2012 - risk of it erasing online Ancestry tree?
I'm considering buying FTM 2012 since it can now synch with my Ancestry online tree, currently my master tree. I would like to move my master tree to my computer, where I can back it up. However, I...
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NO, the software doesn't get that far. I've had that msg in the past, and gotten to the file, compacted it and moved on.This time I can't even get the software to come up, it gives me the message to...
View ArticleRe: Thinking about buying FTM 2012 - risk of it erasing online Ancestry tree?
You can download your tree from Ancestry.com with FTM 2012 in such a way that it reads only, rather than writes. I would consider this to be a safe way to back up what you have. The problem, I think,...
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You open an FTM or GEDCOM file from Windows Explorer to try my trick. Obviously you can't do that by starting FTM and then selecting another tree to open.
View ArticlePlaces listing and sync
I am getting totally confused as to how to handle Places in FTM Mac2 synced with ancestry.com.I Resolved or Ignored the Places important to me in FTM. I used the standard place listing wherever...
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Assuming the Mac version is like the Windows version, whatever is in the place field and description field should be synchronized. As for how you should do it, that's up to you. I think it's designed...
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When I try and open a tree from Windows Explorer same thing happens
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still no success. running everything as Administrator, Still getting 'Source file not found: c:\PROGRA~3\{48439~1\program files\BCL Technologies\wasyConverter SDK\bprgcomm.dll. Verify that the file...
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Another thing I might try is running FTM from a different user account in Windows to see what happens. If it runs successfully, it might reveal something about where the problem lies.You might also...
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Hi guys,Well, at least I know it is not just me and I'm not alone...I have spent well over a hundred hours correcting download errors so haven't responded to this thread which got lost quite early....
View ArticleFTM 2011 How to best SPLIT tree to allow Ancestry.com upload
Hello!I have read all of the "tree splitting" posts re FTM 2011 and I'm still not certain how to best get this done.The REASON for SPLITTING the TREES is because Ancestry.com will not upload a file...
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Kathy Marie Ann,The issue is that you can't use a Media linked to a Source. Check it out.Russ
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*****Source file not found: c:\PROGRA~3\{48439~1\program files\BCL Technologies\wasyConverter SDK\bprgcomm.dll. *****Okay heimankl, now we get sneaky. The BCL files are part of the PDF to Doc...
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Russ comment"The issue is that you can't use a Media linked to a Source. Check it out.RussI don't know what you are saying.Are you saying 1)I shouldn't use media linked to a source or are you saying...
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