I am trying to ask for help and not cause any problems. I have shared my genealogical information with other people for almost 40 years. (I have also helped a lot of other people research their own families.   Also, as I gather the documents and sourcing, I put the information onto Family Tree and New FamilySearch -- so there is no charge for people who want to see my research there.   Plus the Trees on Ancestry gives us a place to protect research efforts away from home. For one thing, I keep my trees "private" because I want to be sure they are documented properly. (However, many other researchers see the document sources from my research and have added them to their own trees.)   There are many good things about Ancestry which I appreciate -- just because they are a paid subscription website doesn't make them all "bad".   If Family Tree had the same abilities and possibilities right now, then I would have done my tasks there.   Family Tree and the related sites on http://www.familysearch.org/ are actually a few steps behind what I needed.   There really is a method to my "madness" and we all have the choice where we spend our money.   Besides many aspects of the Ancestry website are available for free for patrons using the Family History Library, Family History Centers, and public libraries.   There are many of us who live hundreds of miles from the Family History Library and Ancestry brought information into our homes. We can check the records for many places and save a lot of money we would have paid for microfilms to be sent to the FHC. We save travel time and gasoline costs (as well as babysitting fees) since we don't have to go to the FHC. Furthermore, we can research over the Internet at home in our slippers.   Many of us are lucky to have a few hours in the Family History Library every five or ten years. Whereas there are hundreds of people near Salt Lake City who could and should use the free resources at the Family History Library and don't.   So back to my question -- anyone know how to properly sync between my genealogy software on my home computer and the Trees on Ancestry?   Mary Scott Aurora, Illinois

Unfortunately you can not sinc from Ancestry Trees to your genealogy program. The only program that will sinc with Ancestry is FTM. AS was posted earlier you can download your info as a gedcom and the merge with your database but you won't have a copy (picture) of your sources. To get that you can save each source to your computer and then attach to your database. I know for myself that was more work than I wanted to do so I broke down and bought FTM. Because I had purchased the program in the early 90's they gave it to me for the upgrade price. (I had'nt used it for 20+ years). Then all I do is sinc each time I'm in ancestry and then import the file to the genealogy program of choice. Hopefully that makes sense to you. Jacqui On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Mary S. Scott (Michigan) < mscscott28@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am trying to ask for help and not cause any problems. I have shared my > genealogical information with other people for almost 40 years. (I have > also helped a lot of other people research their own families. > > Also, as I gather the documents and sourcing, I put the information onto > Family Tree and New FamilySearch -- so there is no charge for people who > want to see my research there. > > Plus the Trees on Ancestry gives us a place to protect research efforts > away from home. For one thing, I keep my trees "private" because I want to > be sure they are documented properly. (However, many other researchers see > the document sources from my research and have added them to their own > trees.) > > There are many good things about Ancestry which I appreciate -- just > because they are a paid subscription website doesn't make them all "bad". > > If Family Tree had the same abilities and possibilities right now, then I > would have done my tasks there. > > Family Tree and the related sites on http://www.familysearch.org/ are > actually a few steps behind what I needed. > > There really is a method to my "madness" and we all have the choice where > we spend our money. > > Besides many aspects of the Ancestry website are available for free for > patrons using the Family History Library, Family History Centers, and > public libraries. > > There are many of us who live hundreds of miles from the Family History > Library and Ancestry brought information into our homes. We can check the > records for many places and save a lot of money we would have paid for > microfilms to be sent to the FHC. We save travel time and gasoline costs > (as well as babysitting fees) since we don't have to go to the FHC. > Furthermore, we can research over the Internet at home in our slippers. > > Many of us are lucky to have a few hours in the Family History Library > every five or ten years. Whereas there are hundreds of people near Salt > Lake City who could and should use the free resources at the Family History > Library and don't. > > So back to my question -- anyone know how to properly sync between my > genealogy software on my home computer and the Trees on Ancestry? > > Mary Scott > Aurora, Illinois > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >