Yep as long ad you own the tree yourself. -----Original Message----- From: "Eric S Johnson" <crates@oneotaslopes.org> Sent: ‎9/‎24/‎2013 5:09 AM To: "autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com" <autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] AUTOSOMAL-DNA Digest, Vol 3, Issue 174 > Another Ancestry question. I understand an Ancestry tree will sync with > Family Tree Maker. Is this a two way sync? Suppose one has a tree on > Ancestry and buys a new copy of FTM that is blank. With sync turned on will > the Ancestry tree transfer to FTM OR will the blank FTM wipe out the tree on > Ancestry? If you start with an Ancestry.com tree (as I did) and buy a copy of FTM 2014 (as I did), you can then give FTM your Ancestry.com credentials, and FTM will download the Ancestry.com tree into FTM and establish a "synch link" between the two. An FTM license says it's good for installation on two PCs. But an Ancestry.com tree can be "linked" with only one of those PC's FTM instance. The synch between the two (the Ancestry.com tree and the .ftm file on my PC) appears to be two-way; i.e. each time it synchs, it uploads to Ancestry.com any changes I've made on my PC, and it downloads to my PC any changes made (by invited editors) to the online tree. It synchs automatically when I launch or quite FTM, and I can click on the "synch now" button in FTM's upper-right-hand corner if I want. Once I got my Ancestry.com tree into FTM, I found I could use FTM to import a GEDCOM file; FTM would compare the GEDCOM with my existing .ftm file and find the matches, then offer to me to "merge" the imported .ged into my .ftm, letting me make choices about the data for each overlapping person (same as when adopting into your tree via FTM from data from Ancestry.com "hints"). Does anyone ever use this method to share information with newly-discovered relatives who have their own tree? "Hey, can you export that branch to a GEDCOM and e-mail it to me so I can 'merge' it into my .ftm?" (Sorry if this is an old question--I'm a newcomer to the list.) Best, Eric ______________________________ For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message