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    1. [RMagic] Combining sources and pictures from Ancestry to RootsMagic
    2. Betty Stokes via
    3. 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

    02/17/2015 11:22:56