Those of you still awaiting approval, remember it won’t happen until you e-mail me (addy is in the obvious tab in the header) and tell me something—anything—proving you’re not another incarnation of ‘isellweirdpills.com’
Welcome all.
Welcome to our several new members.
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I don’t sell weird pills 🙂 However I did notice that it was quite confusing when trying to initially create the first password for the site. The authentication message said the link was not correct, so I needed to request a new password, and each time I requested a new password, it said I had to register as a new member before I could request a new password. It took me a few tries before I got it working, and I’m not a novice with PC’s.
Reporting that to Chuck, who is handling the rework of the site. We’re still a work in progress.
I had to reactivate my account due to inactivity. Captiva sent me on a long tour of the mountains and then the storefronts.
Lol—well, I’m glad it worked. All those things designed to frustrate the bots are pretty frustrating for us non-bots, too, but glad you made it through the wicket.
Thank you for fixing the problem we had joining. Looking forward to reading ‘Alliance Rising’ when it’s out.
CJ: IMPORTANT Update to Family Tree Maker from MacKiev Software. https://support.mackiev.com/244426-Coming-Soon—Family-Tree-Maker-2017
The 2014.1 and older versions will no longer be able to sync with Ancestry and I think Web Merge will die at the same time. Cutoff date is 29 March 2017 and the new sync procedure will be live on 31 March 2017.
Sorry for hijacking this thread but I wasn’t sure you would notice it on the Genealogy page.
The hysteria has already started!!
Rosemary
RootsMagic is testing their version of sync and new hints. (It’s late, but they had to deal with all-new APIs on Ancestry’s end.)
Thank you, Tulrose! It’s been crazy. I finally got 2014.1 and here we go again!
Really short time line. Don’t, whatever you do, go to the FTM User group on FB or the FTM Message Board on Ancestry. Utter bedlam in both places.
P.S. How do I get a notification when I post a comment?
I’m not sure. We’re still in redesign, so this site is far from finished form. If it isn’t available in the next changes, we’ll see if we can get it.
I’m still using 2012 – 2014 was too problematic for me. 2012 is bad enough. (“Database schema changed” – that means it just did something nasty and won’t tell you where or what.)
A database schema is like a form that the data in the database fills in. If the schema changes, the data gets filled into the wrong places. For instance, if they add a middle initial to the database, “John Doe” could become “John D oe”.
If you can export your data in some standard format and input it to the new version, that could work. Otherwise, you need a conversion program.
This is all theoretical. I’ve never used Ancestry or FTM.
This is what the program itself (which puts all the data in the various tables) does every so often – without any input from you. I’ve found events added to people who weren’t alive at the time or were alive but not in that location, placenames changed, and images linked to records they don’t belong with (when there had been a correctly-linked image before). Thing is, they don’t give you any tools that would help find the problems, like “date last changed”. It may be something in the sync routine they had, but there’s no way to find out from here, and apparently they could either, or weren’t interested in fixing it.
(I haven’t had this happen with RootsMagic. Ever. I’ve been using it, and its predecessors, since about 1998. And PAF before that.)
Oh, yes, this has happened. Many, many of the Boones and Tiptons (before I worked it over) died in the dreadfully fatal Y, on the Somme, in Picardie. (Thousands did.) There is also the dire Span, Georgia, USA.
The standard method of moving an ancestral tree about is a GED file, but unfortunately the error you name was real, and it left many problems behind in Ancestry.com.
Unfortunately it can’t wholly account for the dimness it takes to write 1957 and Illinois, USA as the death data for Richard I ‘sans peur’ de Normandie.
And some quirk that gives USA as ‘residence’ for, say, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
For somebody with more time on their hands than sense, this sounds like an excellent opportunity for some fan fic: Take some of these notable Ancestry and FTM clangers and weave some kind of alternate history out of them.
So they really got around in the Middle Ages, huh? Neat trick, crossing the Atlantic to completely unknown lands and a non-existent (yet) state and town! And in 1957, no less. Gotta keep your eye on those time-hopping medievals. 😀
A box of genealogy records, with an old printout and a Mac floppy, circa 1990’s, from a truly old 90’s version of FTM on the Mac Plus, is now (I hope) lurking somewhere in my storage space. The photo of a Native American Indian ancestor and other old family photos, such as a portrait of my dad and his siblings as elementary school kids, are also in storage, and I hope to get those out as soon as is practical. I have another trip tomorrow, about once a week, and hope next to sort things (paper records, books, “other”, and necessities), to make future visits more productive. Also hoping to bring back some needed items from storage to make life at the new apt. more livable and fun.
Monday is the closing on my former house, after which. I will have a positive bank balance again, and can afford, hey, used furniture for my smaller dining area and living room. (And pay off back debts.) Yay! Oh, yes, please!
N.B. — Amazon says April 4th for the release date for the ebook of Convergence. Looking forward to it and to later upcoming Alliance Rising and the Alliance history piece.
I expect after the trip to the storage space tomorrow, I’ll be both happier and still frustrated, plus hot and sweaty and in need of a hot shower and time to relax before going through a load of stuff. 😉 — But I like my new apartment pretty well.
Making progress on milestones towards font production, but still a ways off from my first submissions. Very much looking forward to when that can provide a new source of income, so I feel like things will settle down.
A new place is exciting. I got to counting and realized I have moved house 18 times in my life, to the east coast, the middle, the west coast. I grew up next an army base, so all my friends had been to exotic places, and since it was a training base, most came and went in 3-4 years. Jane’s also moved a lot. But we’ve sunk roots here—really, really like this place. I grew tired of always considering resale on every paint job and every design decision…so what do we do? We strip the grass, dig up the back yard, and put water in it. 😉
BTW, re Ancestry, I went ahead and bought the upgrade to 2017 from MacKiev, with physical media included. Plus a multi-computer license.
You’ld need the multi computer since there’s 2 of you. There’s one of me so a single license for 2 computers is more than adequate.
N.B. People don’t read pinned posts that explain everything. It’s much easier to get 6 different opinions from FB “friends” rather than the straight scoop from the horse’s mouth.
Gaah!
I’m the only one who ever accesses the tree or works on it. Jane just listens to the curious results. But I have 2 laptops for different workstations.
You could probably get by with a single license. It handles 2 computers under the premise that only one will be in use at any time. The rumour is that sync will allow the 2 machines to be sync’d which will be very nice if they can get it to work seamlessly.