I submitted a much much smaller tree and it did not take as long, but I think uploads and downloads are affected by traffic on the internet. I generally upload or download in late night and things move along much more quickly. Good luck. Elaine LMiller865@aol.com wrote: > Is anyone familiar with the family tree maker and if so have you tried to > submit a tree on line? My tree is about 900 names and so far it has taken 3 > hours just to send 50% of it. Is this normal?? > > lila > lmiller865@aol.com > >