BJ, thanks for your usual helpful, thoughtful, clear and comprehensive suggestions to questions asked on this forum. George On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:18 PM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote: > As you've seen there are a number of ways to relink your FTM file to the > Ancestry online tree. All entail a certain amount of clean up work. > That being said I personally think the best option is to make a backup > of your FTM file using FTM 2014. Ensure you select the appropriate > options but the most important is to include the option to allow the > backup file to sync to the AMT. You then restore the backup to the new > computer using the option to restore with link to the AMT. This option > requires no major cleanup or editing. Here are the advantages: > > 1. When FTM 2014 restores the file the links between the file and the > AMT tree are restored. There is no other cleanup required for the > AMT as it has not changed. > 2. Also all sources and source-citations are as you had them in the old > file. Again there is not clean up. > 3. All Place names are retained and the new file contains all resolved > place names as they were in the old file. > 4. All Media items with their captions, descriptions and notes are > restored so again there is no cleanup. > 5. Any saved charts, reports, books and tasks are retained so again no > clean up. > > The only thing that has happened is the file on the old computer is no > longer linked to the AMT. The sync linkage has been transferred to the > new file. > > Here are the problems with the other processes. > > Uploading the FTM file to a new ATM has the following problems. > > 1. As has been mentioned, any invitees will have to be re-invited to > the new tree. > 2. The old tree will no longer be linked to any file so it will > eventually become out of date. I don't like old trees which are no > longer maintained so I delete them. > 3. If you use the same name for the new tree, you may become confused > as to which tree is being synced and which is not. So you need to > do one of the following: > 1. Upload the tree to a AMT and give it a different name. > 2. Rename to old AMT. > 3. Delete the old AMT. > 4. Any hints you had processed or ignored in the AMT will be lost and > all will begin to be shown in the new AMT. May not be a big problem > is you are like me and never process any of the hints in the AMT. > > Downloading the AMT into a New FTM file - it has gotten better under FTM > 2014 but there will still be considerable work involved to clean up the > file. Here are some of the items which will require work: > > 1. Place names will be resolved except for any which have had data > moved into the new Place Detail field. All of the data will be > restored into the Place field and it will be marked as Unresolved. > You will need to review each one and move the information into the > Place Detail field. > 2. Some source-citations will have been downloaded as separate but > duplicate source-citations. I have found the source-citations used > for one individual will be aggregated into a single source-citation > and linked to all of the facts. However, those source-citations > linked to other individuals will have been downloaded as duplicate > and separate source-citations. If this is not what you want, you > will have to review the source-citations and merge any that are > duplicates into a single source-citation. > 3. Any Media items which are downloaded via the Web Merge wizard, have > the following problems: > 1. The media file names will be saved with the default generic > media file name. Where names are the same, Windows appends a > numeric copy number to each subsequent number: e.g. US Census > 1910, US Census 1910(1), US Census 1910(2).... > 2. The media file name will have been loaded into the Media Caption > field. > 3. Any formatting you may have used in the Media Description is > lost: e.g. If you have clicked "Enter" twice to move information > to a new line separated with a blank line will now be displayed > as a continuous line and where you had the "line feed" there > will now be two "spaces". > > I have not tried the Download the AMT to a new file and then merging so > I don't know how well it works. But I suspect you will need to process > all individuals selecting which facts and source-citations will be > retained and which will not. > > Just a few things to consider. > > BJ > > On 3/9/2014 9:40 AM, George Waller wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have FTM2014 on my new computer and the data files. > > FTM says that my two trees are not on Ancestry.Com and > > that I should upload and link them. > > However, the trees ARE on Ancestry. 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