Board: Message Boards > Topics > Genealogy Software > Personal Ancestral File (PAF) URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.software.paf/372.1.1.1/mb.ashx Subject: Re: Help - uploading updated gedcom to Ancestry.com Author: tfoy157 Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Classification: Query Surnames:
I thought I could save time & Keystrokes, especially for 1850/1860/1870 census records, by getting FTM2009. Wrong! Ancestry and FTM 2009 do not work together as "I" expected. I "do" understand why! They must follow Gedcom specifications to be compatible with as many software packages as possible. I keep returning to PAF. Less Windows "Eye Candy"! I will continue to basically do double entry for now. I enter data once on Ancestry.com and duplicate it with PAF. Every 3 months I download my online tree as a gedcom and import it to a PAF file. Though I have local access to all my documents and media/Photos, I do not link them locally. I'm more interested in being able to create quick and dirty reports locally with sources and citations, along with PAF companion, to distribute to family when needed. I had to learn the "hard way" to only use Ancestry's online tree hints as a starting point to begin OR verify my research. It amazes me to see the number of unsourced trees that others, including me, get suckered into merging into my tree because I thought I could save time. Soon you realize it's the same wrong data merged over & over again to create 11 separate trees. How can someone have children with "one" spouse after his or her death? Come on people! they married again or had a relationship with someone else. You should delete the old trees and export the updated trees, if you continue to share with family, to Ancestry. Outdated trees, especially online, can return to bite you! Tyronne
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