Ancestry.com data

[Gordon soares]

I no longer use Ancestry.com as my primary genealogy program; instead I use Family Tree Maker.
I didn’t know that all the source documents on Ancestry is considered theirs and so I no longer can put that data into FTM. Cheri says she just copies the data from Ancestry but I’m finding each time I try I get a solicitation to rejoin Ancestry and pay. Even if successful at copying it will take a lot of work to look at 17,000 entries on Ancestry and copy them to FTM.
Does anyone have a way to get Ancestry data onto their computer and into another genealogy program? I’m surprised it doesn’t happen when I do a gedcom from Ancestry to FTM.
Gordon

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[Cheri Mello]

Sorry Gordon, I should have been more clear.

What I did was when I was on the image I wanted, I clicked the Save button. It brought up options:

I would pick the one for saving to my computer. It would go to my Download folder. I would then go to my Download folder, rename it, and then drag it to the appropriate folder (example above I would have a Pinkley folder).

I don't do this anymore. It's kinda a lot of work. Well, I only now do it on records that I have a hard time finding. I feel that I source them so well that anyone can retrace my steps. So the above one, I would be putting in a Census event/tag/whatever in my genealogy program. The date would be April 1940 and the place is White River Township, Stone Co, Missouri. In the memo field, I type: enumerated as Wallace R. and Suzy Q. Pinkley, along with their children.....  And if there was a mistake then: enumerated as Wallace R. and Suzy Q. "Pingley"....  Or if the image said Pinkley and Ancestry screwed up: enumerated as Wallace R. and Suzy Q. Pinkley (Ancestry indexed it as "Pingley,")....  Then my source citation is the 1940 U.S. Federal Census with whatever else goes with that citation.

I think the problem that you have is you attached the images to your tree on Ancestry. You did not SAVE the images. So if you want access to the images, you need to have an Ancestry subscription. You might want to try my workaround (documenting it so that anyone can retrace your steps). That's still not going to be fun for 17,000 entries. Maybe someone else has another idea.

Cheri

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[Gordon soares]

What I’ve done is try to do a screenshot of the document then rename it for the source. Kind of what you do, I think. Luckily I did have all my pix in a file before I posted them on Ancestry. 

Almost everything Ancestry has can be found through public sources... just didn’t want to go through the “search” again. 

Kind of makes all ancestry’s “hints” useless on other programs. 

Gordon

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On Dec 8, 2019, at 11:59 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsc...@gmail.com> wrote:



Sorry Gordon, I should have been more clear.

What I did was when I was on the image I wanted, I clicked the Save button. It brought up options:

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[Anthony Silver]

does the family tree maker have a website ??? 

[Cheri Mello]

Yes, it was bought out by MacKiev. The website is here: https://www.mackiev.com/ftm/

Cheri Mello
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[Lisa Harley]

Gordon,

Provided you have Family Tree Maker 2017 or 2019 versions, the following will work.

Try syncing your Ancestry Tree with your Family Tree Maker and all the documents will download and will be on your FTM software.  Be sure to back up your FTM beforehand. You may need to select an option for that.

If it does not work because you are not a current Ancestry subscriber, then you may have to join for their minimum time frame and then discontinue it.

Feel free to contact me if you need help.

Lisa Caetano Harley

[Gordon soares]

Hi Lisa:

send me your email and I’ll contact you.. I do HAVE FTM 2019 and I synch all the time but none of the dox seem to come through.

Gordon

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