On 1/22/2014 5:54 PM, "Derk & Lorraine Sherren" <[email protected]> wrote: > My problem is more with additions. Did you know that folks with trees over > 50,000 people are very few in the total collection of trees on Ancestry? I > have talked to several "Associates" about my problem and they essentially > said that it's the SIZE of the tree that is creating the problem. > Essentially what is happening is every time I add, say 100 people to my FTM > tree and then sync, the AFT adds 108 people*to the count*. I have even > noticed that even the count in my FTM tree is not accurate to what I have > added. More than one Associate has said that the larger the tree gets, the > more difficult it is for the counting system to keep up. Going by my FTM > tree, my count is 62,735 vs. my synched AFT at 62,863, making a current > difference of 128 folks (up from 86 two months ago). Since the AFT trees do > not have the ability to "look" for duplicates, and I am certainly not going > to manually check through the 62,000+ names for duplicates, the Associate > said just to accept the fact that the count itself is probably wrong, and > 128 is very little compared to the total. > > > > So, John, if you apply his reasoning to your deletions, unless you can see > your un-named spouses still sitting there, there is a good possibility that > the*count* in your AFT can't keep up with the changes. > > > > Lorraine, in Kingston > > I have some suggestions. 1) Take the tree on ancestry and produce GEDCOM. 2) Load GEDCOM into a new FTM tree and see the count of individuals. 3) Download Family Tree Builder from Myheritage.com. It is free. They want you to pay for a "premium" account, and they want you to upload your tree to their web site (where one needs a premium account to view any trees). FTB has a report that you can run that will detect possible duplicate persons. --Barry Finkel Chicago

At 10:51 PM 22-01-14 -0600, Barry S. Finkel wrote: >I have some suggestions. >1) Take the tree on ancestry and produce GEDCOM. >2) Load GEDCOM into a new FTM tree and see the count of individuals. >3) Download Family Tree Builder from Myheritage.com. It is free. > They want you to pay for a "premium" account, and they want you to > upload your tree to their web site (where one needs a premium > account to view any trees). FTB has a report that you can run that > will detect possible duplicate persons. >--Barry Finkel > Chicago Hi Barry. Thanks for the tip! ~ I didn't think about creating a GEDCOM to see what the count says. If my FTM Tree is corrupt, it is important to get it straightened out before I send up a new Tree to Ancestry. I'm not familiar with Family Tree Builder, but I'll give it a go. My main priority is to keep my data AND media safe. I know that GEDCOM can't export the media, but the Tree structure needs to be secure. BTW, the 'Find Duplicate People' wizard took about three hours. It found 4218 potential matches. More than half of them have a match score of 925 or better, which is good news. Anytime I tried to do this in FTM-2012, the program would fall over. Looks like I've got a job ahead of me ... ... But for the sake of my siblings, cousins and ancestors .... "Somebody's gotta do it!" 8-) Wish me the best! - John M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Maynard Phillip Island, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let there be Peace on Earth, Justice and Prosperity ... ... and an End to Violence, Poverty and Greed."