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Perhaps not surprisingly, most of them refer back to a database on Ancestry rather than the original source.įor instance, the citation for the baptismal record for my great grandfather, John Ward, says the record comes from ", Lancashire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911", with an additional note that its source is the "Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers, Preston, England: Lancashire Archives." It tells me nothing about the actual source of the information: page 165 of the parish register for St Leondard's church, Walton le Dale, for the years 1831-1854.
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ged file, or through TreeShare, although it is possible to export and upload part of a tree from RootsMagic to a new Ancestry tree.Īnother drawback is that the source citations downloaded with the file are not in the format recommended by professional genealogists. There's no way to export part of a tree from Ancestry, either as a.
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My preference is to keep the two separate and use the Ancestry-downloaded tree as a back up and resource.Ĭomparing two entries, offline and online, before syncing RootsMagic also allows me to compare two offline trees and merge them. Once the tree is imported I can keep syncing any new information between the online and offline version.
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I can only download from Ancestry into a new, empty RootsMagic file, not an existing one. It is possible to find them through the individual they are attached to, via the media button. So I can't just look through the folder to find, say, the 1851 census for Walton le Dale. The media files from Ancestry all download to one folder, and come with what, to me, seem meaningless labels. The process might take quite a while to complete if the tree was very large, but with my trees of around 1,000 entries each, it takes less than half an hour. I could also upload trees to Ancestry this way.
I simply have to hit the icon in the RootsMagic menu bar, log in to Ancestry and specify which tree I want to download.
I've been trying it out recently and found it fairly easy to use. Downloading them all one-by-one would be a huge task.įortunately RootsMagic has a tool called TreeShare, which allows me to download the media files with the data from Ancestry. It doesn't allow me to download all the media files - photos, images of original documents such as census records - that are attached to each person. The problem is that this only exports the actual information. ged file and then import it into RootsMagic (or any other software). It's easy enough to export a whole tree from Ancestry as a. So, how can I get the information from Ancestry onto my laptop and into RootsMagic? That way, if I ever drop my subscription to Ancestry, or the internet fails in some way, I will still have access to them.
I also think it's important to have the information from my online research backed up offline, including copies of all the media files from my Ancestry trees. In theory, I should be keeping my online and offline records in sync, but I'm not always methodical about adding information to RootsMagic as I find it on Ancestry.
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But the most useful, editable, way of creating profiles and lists is through the genealogy software that I use offline at home, RootsMagic*. One difficulty with doing this is that often the most up-to-date information I have is stored online, on my family trees on. That means, amongst other things, updating the family trees (available in the top tabs) and making sure that the Index of Individuals has useful links to profiles and relevant posts. I've mentioned before that one of my goals for this year is to bring this blog up to date.
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