Thanks for the "suggestions" link, John - wasn't aware it even existed. I have just submitted my desire to have notes generally available. Regards, Ian MARR at 38° 24' 01.299" S by 142° 34' 11.9094" E; 6m above sea level This message can be considered to be in the public domain. The home of SW Victorian Cemetery indexes: http://www.ianmarr.net.au/ Allansford Weather (10 min updates): http://www.ianmarr.net.au/Weather/ Family Tree: http://marrwatts.tribalpages.com/ Remember, to EVERY question in life, there is MORE than ONE correct answer. -----Original Message----- From: John Donaldson Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:59 AM To: 'Ian Marr' ; ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [FTM-TECH] "Notes" in AMT Ian I don't write the code so I am not sure what Ancestry consider the primary purpose. My guess would be to display charts online and the cloud back up was only added in 2014/FTM3 (it was partial in 2012) In terms of sharing information, yes but what and how much information? Personally I am happy for my notes not to be displayed to the world at large as I can't readily privatise them and they may contain sensitive information But I do like the fact that I have them backed up in another place over and above my backups But I suggest that you avail yourself of this link http://www.ancestry.com/suggestions John D -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ian Marr via Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:39 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] "Notes" in AMT Replying to: "I suspect it would be very difficult for an AMT to display what could be thousands of pages all the info that is in FTM contains That is not its purpose I think of the AMT as: 1. An online extension of the charting in FTM; and 2. A repository for your FTM data" John, surely the primary purpose of an on-line tree is to share information and as a result to obtain information from others researching similar lines. The strength of the Ancestry on-line trees is in the number of them out there. The weakness is this inability to openly share your notes with anyone. Until Ancestry make notes available (even if it is an 'opt-in' method) the user submitted trees will remain a second-rate research tool. For this very reason I maintain an AMT (easy to do as an FTM user) and also a tree on TribalPages - because there they do display notes. Regards, Ian MARR at 38° 24' 01.299" S by 142° 34' 11.9094" E; 6m above sea level This message can be considered to be in the public domain.