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Comment by Lewis Hartswick on September 6, 2010 at 2:04pm

Yea ! their "free Offer" Ive been trying to use it for two days and it always just sends
me to the subscribe page. I saw the ad on TV. :-( So much for Ancestry.

Comment by Sarah Coles on September 6, 2010 at 8:30am

Anyone having difficulties this weekend downloading trees from Ancestry? After many tries I was finally able to download a GEDCOM file for use in Legacy software. However, when I try to download a tree for use in my new FTM2011 I am getting a script error which I'm posting here. I went through much of the Help FAQ's on Ancestry but cannot find anything related to this problem. I even tried my old version of FTM2010 which has always worked and now that doesn't either. I actually uninstalled the new FTM2011 and reinstalled with no luck. I'm getting very frustrated. I did write an email to Ancestry about the problem. I thought maybe it might be due to overload on their servers this weekend due to the free offer they have going on. Java and JavaScript are enabled on my Firefox browser. This is the message I get:

Comment by Paul Wm Metzger on August 7, 2010 at 10:12am

Russ,

That didn't work. What it did was append the ', Sr' to the end of the surname, making his surname spelled different than his father's or children's.

Paul

Comment by Linda on August 7, 2010 at 8:39am

Hi Marilyn,

Not trying to "one up on you" but I have immediate family that has a tree but refuses to respond to my emails. Maya Angelou said, "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time!" I have gathered a lot of information over the years and thankfully I know how to do the research. I did not post any of my information because I don't have ancestry.com or any other service. I hope you get the information you are looking for because success is the sweetest revenge (for a lack of a better word). Hopefully with your information out there, someone will contact you or you will be able to contact another family member. I have been doing research for ten years on and off; so it takes time.

Comment by Marilyn Brown on August 7, 2010 at 8:25am

I think my 1st cousin, would top your distant cousin. He has had access to all of his mother's information and will not share any information or answer my emails. His mother recently passed away and now I can not even get copies of the pictures she had from her mother, my grandmother. I did get a few through the years and his mother did give me copies of some work done by a distant cousin in Texas. But from him I get nothing. So frustrating, but I check his tree on Ancestry on a regular basis. I still have mine private because I need to do some clean up. I am waiting for him to see all the Death Certificates, I recently acquired.

Comment by Linda on August 7, 2010 at 8:05am

What troubles me about research posted on genealogy websites is that information is almost never exclusive to the person posting it. Some where we find information that someone else has researched: Too many times, I have seen blogs where someone asks for information that gives clues. In one case, a distant cousin asked for information, copied it, and then refused to share it. He now has over 2,000 people on his tree and does not respond to email requests to share the information.

I understand how frustrating it can be to post public your family tree but keep in mind that someone has helped you to gather the information at some point in your research. We cannot take or expect to get credit for research that someone else has helped us gather either through clues or direct information.

Comment by Russ Worthington on August 7, 2010 at 5:56am

Paul,

I think the answer is Jr and Sr should have a comma after the Surname. No comma when III, IV is used

Russ

Comment by Paul Wm Metzger on August 7, 2010 at 5:25am

What is the proper way to add suffixes (Sr, Jr etc) to a person's name in an Ancestry.com family tree, so that it will appear properly in a gedcom once it is downloaded?

Thanks,
Paul M

Comment by Elizabeth H on July 27, 2010 at 12:10am

I had uploaded an abbreviated version of my tree to Ancestry.com so that I could test syncing it to my iPhone-and I have to say that feature is awesome for referring to (I wouldn't do data entry that way though). I had marked the tree as private, but *just* changed it to public tonight. I'll be testing how that goes. The reason for the change was partly the question here, but also to try and make more connections. I would say that if you are worried about people taking your research and claiming as their own, play around with just uploading the bare-bones (ie: I don't have any of my source citations uploaded; if folks want to know, they can contact me). Even as a private tree it will show you the "hints" and that is nice for making connections with others.

Comment by Myss Story on July 26, 2010 at 11:27pm

I just renewed my Ancestry subscription. I had considered letting it lapse, thinking I was just about done on one side and met an impossible gap on the other, but two things happened. One, my laptop where I have detailed family trees and gedcoms broke down. I cannot acess the information on it, but fortunately I had the trees posted on Ancestry, although with less detail, still accessible to me! The other thing is I was recently contacted by two different descendants of a mutual ancestor from overseas. As I said, I don't travel, and if I had not posted it is certain I never would have been able to pass on my family information. I am the last "elder" on my side of the family, and the few younger generations are still in the yawning stage. So it was pleasing to have someone related and interested to share with.

I realized that my geds saved on cd disks cannot be read by my new laptop dvd drive, and that the hard drive can stop, too, so it's online storage for me.
It was also heartening to know that not all the branches had dwindled away. I kept finding death notices for each generation of young people who did not have issue, so so figured it was pretty much the end of the story. But NO! Life does go on! I feel a renewed interest in the hunt.

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