Whew! Places are as I had them. They all need to be resolved, but that is SOP, if I remember right from the last upgrade.
A couple of points need to be made about syncing. These have been learned as the result of very extensive beta testing. Tree syncing was the most demanded enhancement from version 2011 and a lot of time went into developing and testing it. But as the song says, "be careful for what you ask for".... You will get much better results if you get your FTM tree is good shape with low errors, Use the data errors report to trap problems and fix them. Make sure your relationships are correct Make sure your sources are clean etc Even then there are differences between FTM and the AMT These are some notes about syncing taken from the Ancestry board. Wise users of FTM/AMT will take careful note of the "fine print" ******** Questions and Answers (FAQs) Do I have to pay to upload my tree to Ancestry? No, family trees on Ancestry are free to create and maintain. How long does it take to upload and sync a tree? The first time you upload a tree to Ancestry.com it may take awhile, especially if you have a lot of media items. After that though, because only your changes are synced and not your entire tree. Can I download and sync my Ancestry tree to more than one computer? No. You can only sync an online tree to one desktop tree. Can I merge my Ancestry.com tree with a tree I already have in Family Tree Maker? You can if you are simply downloading your tree. If you want to create a link between your online tree and desktop tree, you cannot merge the two together. How do I download my Ancestry.com tree into Family Tree Maker? To download your Ancestry.com Member Tree, simply open Family Tree Maker and click the Plan button at the top of the window. Click the New Tree tab and select "Download from Ancestry." What happens someone is making changes to my tree online while I am making changes in Family Tree Maker? When you sync your trees, you will have the opportunity to view any conflicts between the two trees and accept or reject the changes. I cannot edit my online tree. What happened? If you cannot edit your synced online tree, it may be because the online tree is temporarily unavailable while the desktop and online trees are being synced. Wait a few minutes and try again. What are the differences between the Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com trees when using TreeSyncT? Most content in trees is uploaded and/or synced seamlessly between Family Tree Maker and Ancestry. However, because Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker trees are in different formats, there are a few differences you should be aware of. Note the word "Most" This is the bit really worth understanding........!!!!!! Facts In general fact dates, names, places, and descriptions (including custom and alternate facts) are the same in Family Tree Maker and Ancestry trees. However, you may find that some fact types are labeled differently. For example, the Physical Description fact in Family Tree Maker is the Description fact in Ancestry trees. Media Items The caption of a Media item in Family Tree Maker is the same as the Picture name field on Ancestry. Audio and video items are not transferred between Family Tree Maker and Ancestry. Media items attached to relationships in Family Tree Maker are not uploaded to Ancestry.com. Records you've found on Ancestry.com and merged into Family Tree Maker won't be re-uploaded to Ancestry. Documents in Family Tree Maker will be uploaded to an Ancestry tree only if they are in one of these formats: .pdf, .doc, .txt, .rtf, and .htm. Photos uploaded to Ancestry Member Trees cannot exceed 15MB, so a photo in your desktop tree that exceed this size limit will be resized when it is copied to Ancestry-your original file will not be affected. Images need to be in one of these formats: .jpeg, .bmp, .png, .gif, and .tiff. Notes In Family Tree Maker you can create a variety of notes: person, research, fact, relationship, media, and source citation. When you upload a tree to Ancestry only person notes will be included; they can only be viewed by people you have invited to your online tree. Places If you have entered shortened display names for locations or custom GPS coordinates in Family Tree Maker, they will not be included in your Ancestry tree. Publications Saved reports, charts, and books cannot be transferred from Family Tree Maker to Ancestry. Relationships In Family Tree Maker only you can view information you've entered for a living individual. In your Ancestry tree, anyone who is invited to your tree can view information about living individuals. Sources Sources created in Family Tree Maker using source templates will transfer to Ancestry, but you cannot edit these sources online. Media items attached to source citations in Family Tree Maker will be uploaded; media items attached to sources in Family Tree Maker will not be uploaded. Stories A story created on Ancestry.com will become a .htm file in Family Tree Maker, which can be viewed in a Web browser. You can edit the text in a word-processing program. Smart Stories created in Family Tree Maker will become .rtf text files in Ancestry. The story can't be viewed within your Ancestry tree but the document can be downloaded. (Smart Stories are uploaded only if they are attached to individuals) John D