Hi again kj_norway,
Thank you for your continuing efforts to help me.
Am I correct in understanding that none of the four links I gave you to the three RootsWeb and one Ancestry tree would work for you?
I’ve sent these links to many people over the years and I thought at least the RootsWeb links I sent always worked.
On the new Ancestry tree however, I now remember you may need to be a member of Ancestry or I have to invite you in using their instructions at
http://help.ancestry.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/493/kw/how%... for you to view that tree. If you wish to see that Ancestry tree, please give me your name and email address and I’ll send you an invitation.
The Ancestry tree shows the pictures and notes not on the open page like they are on the RootsWeb trees so I suppose that separation may shield them from being copied and used to update a RootsWeb, or maybe any other, tree.
As for the the three RootsWeb trees, which I had thought were always open to all, at least the original old one can be accessed through typing in my name, Bruce Cooley Pusch into Google and at least the old one is listed at the top under RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Bruce Cooley...clicking on that should bring you to the old RootsWeb tree with the address
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d... that you said wouldn’t work for you.
That would give you two of the trees and if you wish to also see the other two, I would have to check with a RootsWeb tech to see how to do it.
If you can tell me which trees you wish to see, I’ll try to get it done. The one tree you can easily see now, the Old RootsWeb tree, has the notes and pictures just the way I would like them to appear and I was able to work with it and update it for many years until last November when suddenly the pictures would no longer travel. With the RootsWeb trees, unlike the Ancestry tree, I was unable to work directly on the tree and worked in Family Tree Maker 2012 and then updated that to the tree. Whether that update traveled by Gedcom or some other means I don’t know but suddenly it no longer worked.
That’s when I was advised by a RootsWeb tech to open an Ancestry tree and buy Family Tree Maker 2014. After I was on the Ancestry tree, and making additions, I found I could do them right on the tree and so have not been using Family Tree Maker 2014.
At least I thought I wasn’t now using Family Tree Maker.
Now when you talk of wanting to see the Gedcom I created on the Anecstry tree to update the new RootsWeb backup tree (I now find I can’t so easily show you), I just tried opening what I thought was the Gedcom I just created on 7/7/15 and just used and instead of opening into a file showing Gedcom text like you showed in your last message, it opened into what is apparently a copy of Family Tree Maker 2011 (not the 2012 I used to successfully used to use on RootsWeb nor the 2014 I now have, but don’t use for Ancestry).
On7/7/15, I thought, and the instructions said I was, downloading a Gedom by following the Ancestry instructions that are titled ”Downloading a GEDCOM file from Ancestry” which are at
http://help.ancestry.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/472/kw/HOW%....
This whole thing is getting more confusing every day.
If you can tell me which of the non-working links in my previous messages to you to work on, I’ll do what I can to get you there.
Google will get you to the old RootsWeb tree and if you send me your name and email address, I’ll see how to get you an invitation to visit my Ancestry tree and Icould try to attach that Family Tree Maker 2011 file I created on 7/7/15 and that their instructions call a Gedcom, and anything else you think might help, to an email to you.
I sure appreciate your patience with all this and hope you will stick with me long enough to point me in the right direction.
I sure would like to be able to display a complete updated tree, like the old Rootweb tree used to be, to the general public again and it sure looks like we’re not doing showing much open to the public now.
No wonder we’re no longer getting as many emails from “helpers” as we used to.
I think I've unloaded enough on you here, but as you volunteer as a genealogical helper, one other thing has always bothered me. When you Google and see my old RootsWeb tree, you'll see I have been successful in finding many, many of my Mother's ancestors but can only trace back to the two grandfathers and greand mothers on my father's side. They were all born in Germany and I once got birth reconds from Germany for them through an LDS genealogical help group near here but the records were hand written in German and I was unable to find anything in them. Do you have any search ideas that might help me trace at least one of these four individuals further back?
Thanks again. I sure look forward to your next reply.
Bruce