If you are asking whether there is some way to link FTM facts or source-citations to a media item on an internet web site, the answer is no. Even with those Census or other images available from Ancestry.com data bases, the user/program must download a copy of the image and link the copy to the fact/source-citation. Now is there any way to save the web address of the web image? Not directly except for those inserted by the Web Merge Wizard; however, I copy the web address using Windows copy feature. I then paste the address into the image copy's description field. It is not a hot link but at least I can now return to the web page and the image on the internet. Hope that helps. BJ On 11/4/2011 9:23 PM, David C Abernathy wrote: > Are these media files from other sources linked within FTM or was there a > copy saved to your dive and that copy is linked within FTM? > > If they are linked to the external source, how was this done, as I have not > seen any of way doing it? > > Thanks, > David C Abernathy > Email disclaimers > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of BJ > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 9:22 PM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Facts - Family Work Space > > See comments below. > > BJ > > On 11/4/2011 6:17 PM, Ali wrote: >> More questions BJ if you please. >> >> -What if not all of my media items came from Ancestry. E.g.: Find My > Past; Ellis Island; GRO; and so on, will they be uploaded to the AMT? > Yes, if the media item is from another source, it will be uploaded to the > AMT. One thing you may want to do is to enter a Caption for every media > item. When a media item has a Caption, the sync routine uploads the media > > item and uses the Caption as the Picture Name which is displayed below the > > media item thumbnail in the Media Gallery. It makes a rather easy way to > cross check the media items in the Media Gallery against those in the Media > Collection work area. Unfortunately, the AMT does not sort the media items > in the Media Gallery based upon the Picture Name. While the order appears > > to be random, I'm pretty sure they are arranged based upon the date and time > they were added to the PC file. > > Rosemary said the "All media will be uploaded, no matter where it came > from." I'm whether she is talking about every single media item or just > those that are manually entered into the Media work area. According to the > description of which media items are uploaded, images from the Ancestry.com > data bases (census images and others) are not suppose to the uploaded to the > Media Gallery because those facts are linked directly to the images in the > > Ancestry.com data bases. Unfortunately this isn't working properly. I have > found some images from the 1900, > 1910 and 1920 census records are uploaded but they are not linked to > anything in the AMT. The 1930 Census images are not uploaded. I don't > know whether or when this may get fixed. >> -Preferred facts. Each time I accept data from a green leaf alert another > preferred fact is planted on my Person work space in the Individual& Shared > Facts area. I can end up with 6-8 preferred facts for Person ID or DOB or > > DOD. I am never sure whether or not I should remove these excess preferred > facts. It seems redundant to have these repetitive facts moved over to the > AMT. > For any fact label; e.g. Birth, Death, Census; only one of the facts for a > > particular individual can be marked as Preferred. The others are shown but > they are alternate facts. All preferred and Alternate facts are uploaded to > the AMT. > > If you have multiple facts and they all have the same information, I would > > link the source-citations from the duplicate facts to the preferred fact and > then delete the duplicate facts. Now if the information is different then > > you may want to keep the alternate facts. > On the other hand, I may have one source that gives me the year of birth and > another source that gives me the month and a third that gives me the Place. > I tend to enter all of that information into a single fact and link all 3 > source-citations to that one fact. Others disagree with this approach but I > prefer having one fact as complete as possible. > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4597 - Release Date: 11/04/11 > > >

BJ, I know this, but the OP implied that they were, by using the question " What if not all of my media items came from Ancestry. E.g.: Find My Past; Ellis Island; GRO; and so on, will they be uploaded to the AMT?" I am trying to get verification that the OP thinks that they are linked? Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus  == -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BJ Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:53 PM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Facts - Family Work Space If you are asking whether there is some way to link FTM facts or source-citations to a media item on an internet web site, the answer is no. Even with those Census or other images available from Ancestry.com data bases, the user/program must download a copy of the image and link the copy to the fact/source-citation. Now is there any way to save the web address of the web image? Not directly except for those inserted by the Web Merge Wizard; however, I copy the web address using Windows copy feature. I then paste the address into the image copy's description field. It is not a hot link but at least I can now return to the web page and the image on the internet. Hope that helps. BJ On 11/4/2011 9:23 PM, David C Abernathy wrote: > Are these media files from other sources linked within FTM or was > there a copy saved to your dive and that copy is linked within FTM? > > If they are linked to the external source, how was this done, as I > have not seen any of way doing it? > > Thanks, > David C Abernathy > Email disclaimers > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ This message represents the official view of the voices in my > head. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of BJ > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 9:22 PM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Facts - Family Work Space > > See comments below. > > BJ > > On 11/4/2011 6:17 PM, Ali wrote: >> More questions BJ if you please. >> >> -What if not all of my media items came from Ancestry. E.g.: Find My > Past; Ellis Island; GRO; and so on, will they be uploaded to the AMT? > Yes, if the media item is from another source, it will be uploaded to > the AMT. One thing you may want to do is to enter a Caption for every > media item. When a media item has a Caption, the sync routine uploads > the media > > item and uses the Caption as the Picture Name which is displayed below > the > > media item thumbnail in the Media Gallery. It makes a rather easy way > to cross check the media items in the Media Gallery against those in > the Media Collection work area. Unfortunately, the AMT does not sort > the media items in the Media Gallery based upon the Picture Name. > While the order appears > > to be random, I'm pretty sure they are arranged based upon the date > and time they were added to the PC file. > > Rosemary said the "All media will be uploaded, no matter where it came > from." I'm whether she is talking about every single media item or > just those that are manually entered into the Media work area. > According to the description of which media items are uploaded, images > from the Ancestry.com data bases (census images and others) are not > suppose to the uploaded to the Media Gallery because those facts are > linked directly to the images in the > > Ancestry.com data bases. Unfortunately this isn't working properly. > I have found some images from the 1900, > 1910 and 1920 census records are uploaded but they are not linked to > anything in the AMT. The 1930 Census images are not uploaded. I don't > know whether or when this may get fixed. >> -Preferred facts. Each time I accept data from a green leaf alert >> another > preferred fact is planted on my Person work space in the Individual& Shared > Facts area. I can end up with 6-8 preferred facts for Person ID or > DOB or > > DOD. I am never sure whether or not I should remove these excess > preferred facts. It seems redundant to have these repetitive facts > moved over to the AMT. > For any fact label; e.g. Birth, Death, Census; only one of the facts > for a > > particular individual can be marked as Preferred. The others are > shown but they are alternate facts. All preferred and Alternate facts > are uploaded to the AMT. > > If you have multiple facts and they all have the same information, I > would > > link the source-citations from the duplicate facts to the preferred > fact and then delete the duplicate facts. Now if the information is > different then > > you may want to keep the alternate facts. > On the other hand, I may have one source that gives me the year of > birth and another source that gives me the month and a third that gives me the Place. > I tend to enter all of that information into a single fact and link > all 3 source-citations to that one fact. Others disagree with this > approach but I prefer having one fact as complete as possible. > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4597 - Release Date: > 11/04/11 > > > ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Online Support for Family Tree Maker Version 16 and earlier http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ Version 2008 - 2011 http://ftm.custhelp.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think he was attempting to clarify what images were uploaded vs which are not. I mentioned that images from Ancestry.com data bases are not suppose to be uploaded to the AMT. He was attempting to verify whether the images from these other online data bases would be uploaded or not. The replies were reassuring him that images from those other online data bases would be uploaded. You are correct that they are all copies and not active physical links to the other data bases. In actuality you have one copy of the image on your PC and a second copy of the image in the AMT. Cross checking which images are uploaded can be very challenging because they are treated differently. Some things that you may think of as photos in your PC file are classified as other types in the AMT. The most notable of these is the PDF file. It may contain a photo but it is uploaded and classified as a "Story". Certain types of files will not be uploaded including HTML and MHT files. Some media types are converted. For example, FTM 2012 will accept most image file types: TIF, BMP, PNG, etc. However, when they are uploaded to the AMT they are all converted to a JPG file. As I recall a MHT file will be converted to a RTF file. BJ On 11/5/2011 7:31 AM, David C Abernathy wrote: > BJ, > I know this, but the OP implied that they were, by using the question " What > if not all of my media items came from Ancestry. E.g.: Find My > Past; Ellis Island; GRO; and so on, will they be uploaded to the AMT?" > > I am trying to get verification that the OP thinks that they are linked? > > Thanks, > David C Abernathy > Email disclaimers > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of BJ > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:53 PM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Facts - Family Work Space > > If you are asking whether there is some way to link FTM facts or > source-citations to a media item on an internet web site, the answer is no. > Even with those Census or other images available from Ancestry.com data > bases, the user/program must download a copy of the image and link the copy > to the fact/source-citation. > > Now is there any way to save the web address of the web image? Not directly > except for those inserted by the Web Merge Wizard; however, I copy the web > > address using Windows copy feature. I then paste the address into the image > copy's description field. It is not a hot link but at least I can now > return to the web page and the image on the internet. > > Hope that helps. > > BJ > > On 11/4/2011 9:23 PM, David C Abernathy wrote: >> Are these media files from other sources linked within FTM or was >> there a copy saved to your dive and that copy is linked within FTM? >> >> If they are linked to the external source, how was this done, as I >> have not seen any of way doing it? >> >> Thanks, >> David C Abernathy >> Email disclaimers >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------ This message represents the official view of the voices in my >> head. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------ >> http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com >> == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] >> On Behalf Of BJ >> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 9:22 PM >> To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Facts - Family Work Space >> >> See comments below. >> >> BJ >> >> On 11/4/2011 6:17 PM, Ali wrote: >>> More questions BJ if you please. >>> >>> -What if not all of my media items came from Ancestry. E.g.: Find My >> Past; Ellis Island; GRO; and so on, will they be uploaded to the AMT? >> Yes, if the media item is from another source, it will be uploaded to >> the AMT. One thing you may want to do is to enter a Caption for every >> media item. When a media item has a Caption, the sync routine uploads >> the media >> >> item and uses the Caption as the Picture Name which is displayed below >> the >> >> media item thumbnail in the Media Gallery. It makes a rather easy way >> to cross check the media items in the Media Gallery against those in >> the Media Collection work area. Unfortunately, the AMT does not sort >> the media items in the Media Gallery based upon the Picture Name. >> While the order appears >> >> to be random, I'm pretty sure they are arranged based upon the date >> and time they were added to the PC file. >> >> Rosemary said the "All media will be uploaded, no matter where it came >> from." I'm whether she is talking about every single media item or >> just those that are manually entered into the Media work area. >> According to the description of which media items are uploaded, images >> from the Ancestry.com data bases (census images and others) are not >> suppose to the uploaded to the Media Gallery because those facts are >> linked directly to the images in the >> >> Ancestry.com data bases. Unfortunately this isn't working properly. >> I have found some images from the 1900, >> 1910 and 1920 census records are uploaded but they are not linked to >> anything in the AMT. The 1930 Census images are not uploaded. I don't >> know whether or when this may get fixed. >>> -Preferred facts. Each time I accept data from a green leaf alert >>> another >> preferred fact is planted on my Person work space in the Individual& > Shared >> Facts area. I can end up with 6-8 preferred facts for Person ID or >> DOB or >> >> DOD. I am never sure whether or not I should remove these excess >> preferred facts. It seems redundant to have these repetitive facts >> moved over to the AMT. >> For any fact label; e.g. Birth, Death, Census; only one of the facts >> for a >> >> particular individual can be marked as Preferred. The others are >> shown but they are alternate facts. All preferred and Alternate facts >> are uploaded to the AMT. >> >> If you have multiple facts and they all have the same information, I >> would >> >> link the source-citations from the duplicate facts to the preferred >> fact and then delete the duplicate facts. Now if the information is >> different then >> >> you may want to keep the alternate facts. >> On the other hand, I may have one source that gives me the year of >> birth and another source that gives me the month and a third that gives me > the Place. >> I tend to enter all of that information into a single fact and link >> all 3 source-citations to that one fact. Others disagree with this >> approach but I prefer having one fact as complete as possible. >> >> ********************************** >> List information page >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html >> >> Online Support for Family Tree Maker >> Version 16 and earlier >> http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ >> >> Version 2008 - 2011 >> http://ftm.custhelp.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ********************************** >> List information page >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html >> >> Online Support for Family Tree Maker >> Version 16 and earlier >> http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ >> >> Version 2008 - 2011 >> http://ftm.custhelp.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4597 - Release Date: >> 11/04/11 >> >> >> > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4597 - Release Date: 11/04/11 > > >