While I may sympathize with your sentiments, the reality is the Ancestry trees and FTM are two separate products and have two different development teams. While they may try to coordinate, I suspect it is physically impossible for the two data bases to be identical. It has only been recent that they added and stored certain information in FTM into the AMT even though the information is not displayed in the AMT. Downloading the AMT and using it as a backup is not recommended because of these differences. I had to do it once because I had gone several months without backing up my FTM file and I corrupted my main file to such an extent that nothing I did would recover it. I swore then that I would backup my data faithfully but I'm afraid that I've slipped back into my old habits. :-[ I approach the problem in a slightly different direction. I don't care whether the AMT and the FTM data bases are identical. What I want FTM to do is download the AMT or any other data base and as it is importing the data into the FTM Data base, examine the source-citations and at the user's option aggregate identical Source-citations into a single source-citations with the appropriate multiple links. I'm not sure whether you are aware of what it means for a source-citation to be identical. Source-citations are considered identical only when everything is identical that includes: 1. Source 2. Citation Detail 3. Citation Text 4. Reference note 5. Source Note 6. Web address 7. Media links If any character including non printable or non viewable characters is different, the source-citations are not identical and will cannot be aggregated. BJ On 2/22/2015 6:29 PM, Debbie via wrote: > Of course I want citations in AMT. But, there's value in having a one-to-many relationship in cases where the same citation can link to multiple people. When I sync things, I don't want the differences in the two systems to modify my work. If I add citatation #1 to Person A, B, and C.... sync the two systems..... why do I now have three copies of the identical citation? Furthermore, I was really angered when sync issues in the last version corrupted my file and I had to download the tree from AMT into FTM..... because I knew that the tree I'd be getting wasn't 100% mirror image of my FTM tree. They should invest in making the systems identical so that there are no difference between the two copies. > > From: H R Worthington <rworthington@att.net> > To: Debbie <growingatree@hotmail.com>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 6:49 PM > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] The Great Debate > > Debbie, > That is NOT in FTM2014 that is in the Ancestry Member Tree. It is being presented in the AMT on each Fact where that Citation is used. > If you really think about it, each Citation is on each person in FTM2014. So, I am sorry, but don't understand the issue. Don't you want Citations in the AMT? > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > > > From: Debbie <growingatree@hotmail.com> > To: H R Worthington <rworthington@att.net>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 6:25 PM > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] The Great Debate > > Another question I have..... the whole sync process and it's impact on sources. At times I'll work in FTM and add a single source to the facts for multiple people. One-to-Many relationship. I sync with Ancestry Trees and whala -- all of a sudden I have a separate source for each person, a one-to-one relationship. I don't want to have separate sources in these cases. Why does this happen?? > > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > 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