Betty, I wrote a blog post a month or so ago that tells you how you can get your Ancestry data down using FTM and then bringing it into RootsMagic. Try this: http://granitegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/11/new-rootsmagic-7-compare-files-feature.html?m=1 Sue > On Feb 17, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Betty Stokes via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I previously sent this information but apparently no one noticed. > > > > I have been experimenting with preparing a tree/book using RM including > everything I have on Ancestry for descendants of an individual including > sources and media. I have Family Tree Maker 14 which I use to synchronize > with my on line Ancestry tree. I enter information from Ancestry mostly > instead of FTM. Ancestry does not have the space for notes and other goodies > that RM has. I found that if I synchronized the tree to FTM, it would first > synchronize the data. Then it made a file of the media in a separate folder. > Then I made a gedcom from FTM 14 of the person I wanted with his descendants > - Not the whole tree - and imported it into a blank RM database. This is > like Bruce's UTubo demo except I did it from FTM not Ancestry.com. and I > selected people instead of selecting all. Then I clicked on the FTM media > folder just created by the synchronization. I wanted to see where the folder > was. I copied the location of the FTM media. Then I went to RM Tools, > program option, Folders, Multimedia Files, then I pasted the location where > the little dots are. You might have to write it down and type it, but I > found that copy and paste worked well. > > Then I went to the database and chose a person. I clicked on the checkmark > in the very top (general) square (camera icon). That brought up the pictures > I had for that person. Before that, I didn't have a picture showing with his > data. > > Somewhere in there it wanted to build a thumbnail. The choice as whether to > do that is on the "tools, program option page." All the pictures are > together in a gallery but just the ones that pertained to an individual > showed up when I clicked the check mark in the very top (general). Then I > had to select which one of the pictures I wanted to be primary. From here > on, it is just RM instructions. It took me a while to figure out just how to > select the person's picture to show but it is in the RM directions. I had 6 > pictures which showed up. The pictures have the same names connected to an > individual and they are in the same place that FTM 14 looks for them. Roots > Magic will look for them in the same place. > > > > I made this into a separate tree because I was just working on one surname. > If anyone wants to see how the sources came over from Ancestry, I'll be glad > to send an example. When I merged the people from the one ancestor on RM > with the people from Ancestry, there were a few things that needed to be > edited in the notes, but all the pictures and sources were there. What is on > Ancestry originally came from my Roots Magic Database. The output from Roots > Magic vs Family Tree Maker 2014 was so much better. > > > > Betty