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GEDCOMS NOW NOT MOVING PICTURES AND NOTES

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Re: GEDCOMS NOW NOT MOVING PICTURES AND NOTES

Posted: 8 Jul 2015 11:38AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi again kj_norway,

Thank you for your quick and informative response.

On the idea of hosting my own website, wouldn’t the only way for a genealogical searcher to find me then be through Google or some other search engine? I would think if I were already on a site frequented by many genealogical searchers, I would have a better chance of making contact with those who can correct or add to what I already have such has been my experience for so many years on RootsWeb.

Do you think as many of these “helpers” I seek would find me and contact me if I were alone on my own site?

My basic problem in following your other advice is that although I have used desktop computers for perhaps 25 years, I am basically a computer illiterate when it comes to performing the tasks you suggest. I am an 87 year old man with failing eyesight and an old desktop computer and would have no idea on how to, or even how to find out how to, take the actions you suggest.

Do you know of an existing site, RootsWeb or something like it, and software I could purchase, that would allow me to put up a tree there showing all the information I now show on my Ancestry.com tree?

I had email contact with a RootsWeb engineer last December who put up a copy of my old RootsWeb tree, the one I updated complete with new notes and pictures for so many years, and gave me instructions on how I might do the same.

Unfortunately, on the advice of another RoostWeb tech, I moved the dree I work on to Ancestry so rather than moving information between two RootsWeb trees, I now have to move it from an Ancestry tree to a RootsWeb tree and have never been able to do as he did and I can no longer reach him to find out why I’m unsuccessful or to get additional instructions.

But the old original RootsWeb tree he copied is at

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

(As you can see it has over 600,000 hits in just the few years since I put up the counter and so has produced many helpers for me)

The new RootsWeb tree the Engineer put up in December, a copy of the old RootsWeb tree above, complete with notes and pictures, is at

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

The instructions the RootsWeb engineer gave me so I could supposedly also do what he had successfully done are:

THE ROOTSWEB ENGINEER’S INSTRUCTIONS, IN AN EMAIL TO ME, WERE AS FOLLOWS:: (HIS INSTRUCTIONS ARE IN LOWER CASE AND NUMBERED AND MY COMMENTS, AS I TRIED TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS, ARE IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND PARENTHESIS).

HERE’S HIS EMAIL:

From: (Not having his permission, I have deleted his address)
To: pusch@comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 4:40:51 PM
Subject: Re: Worldconnect Tree

HERE ARE THE ROOTSWEB ENGINEER’S INSTRUCTIONS:

(I HAVE TRIED THIS MANY TIMES WITHOUT SUCCESS AND MY COMMENTS AS I DID THIS THE LAST TIME ARE IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND PARENTHESIS…THE ENGINEER STARTS:).

1. go to http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/wcus

2. pick the tree you would like to change

(FOR THE ANCESTRY TREE WHICH IS THE ONE I WANT TO COPY, I GO TO

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/63977057/settings/info

( AND CLICK ON TREE SETTINGS)

(TO COPY AN OLD ROOTSWEB TREE AS THE ENGINEER DID go to

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/wcus (THIS LINK ABOVE IS THE LINK THE ROOTSWEB ENGINEER USED IN HIS # 1. INSTRUCTION ABOVE AND TAKES YOU TO THE ROOTSWEB TREE “ADMINISTRATION PAGE” AND I CLICKED ON pusch test WHICH IS THE ROOTSWEB TREE I USE NOW FOR ANCESTRY TREE BACKUPS SO IS NOW THE RECIPIENT OF THE ANCESTRY TREE GEDCOMS. I’M NOT SURE IF ONE TREE, BOTH TREES OR THE GEDCOM THAT CARRIES THE INFORMATION BETWEEN THEM HAS TO BE SOMEHOW CHANGEED SO THE BACKUP TREE WILL DISPLAY NOTES AND PICTURES)

3 on the right hand side click on display options.

(FOR THE ANCESTRY TREE THERE ARE NO DISPLAY OPTIONS TO CLICK SO I JUST DID THE ONLY THING I COULD SEE AVAILABLE TO ME AND JUST DOWNLOADED A GEDCOM TITLED “LATEST 7-7-15 BRUCE COOLEY PUSCH TREE (3)” AND TRIED TO FOLLOW THE ENGINEER’S INSTRUCTIONS ON THE ROOTSWEB (RECIPIENT) TREE BEFORE I UPLOADED THIS NEW GEDCOM THERE)

(THE ROOTSWEB TREE THE DISPLAY OPTIONS THE ROOTSWEB ENGINEER SPOKE OF ARE AT:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/wcus?db=bcpusch (WHICH IS THE pusch
test TREE),

4.Near the bottom on that page looks for
Allow HTML in GEDCOM and select yes. Click Update at the bottom

(YOU FIRST HAVE TO CLICK “DISPLAY OPTIONS” THEN FROM THAT LIST CLICK “ALLOW HTML” AND THEN CLICK “UPDATE.” AND I GOT DISPLAY OPTIONS UPDATED BACK SO THE ROOTSWEB TREE SEEM READY TO ACCEPT HTML IF IT’S ON THE ANCESTRY TREE GEDCOM)

5. Click take tree offline (I DID THIS}

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/wcus?db=bcpusch&...

6. Then click proceed button. (I DID THIS)

7. click Put tree online (I WAITED JUST A FEW MINUTES AND DID THIS AND GOT THE MESSAGE “Database puschtest will be publicly viewable on WorldConnect in a few minutes but may not appear in search results for 36 hours.”)

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/wcus?db=bcpusch&...

8. Wait a few minutes and it should be fixed.

(I WAITED “ A FEW MINUTES” BUT NO NOTES AND PICTURES WERE TRANSFERRED. I FOUND AND OPENED THE HOPEFULLY UPDATE AND COMPLETE WITH NOTES AND PICTURES ROOTSWEB TREE BOOKMARK AND IT WAS UPDATED BUT STILL WITHOUT NEW NOTES AND PICTURES SO I CHECKED AGAIN IN 36 HOURS AND THERE WERE NO PICTURES AND A NEW NOTE TITLE HAD TRANSFERRED BUT NOT THE NOTE ITSELF).


(THE ENGINEER’S SIGNED NAME IS DELETED HERE AT THE END FOR I DO NOT HAVE HIS PERMISSION TO USE IT. I’VE TRIED TO REACH HIM MANY TIMES TO FIND OUT WHAT I’M DOING WRONG BUT AM NOW UNABLE TO REACH HIM).

Is there any way you can tell me how to duplicate what this RootsWeb engineer did so that it can be done by me every month or so with a Gedcom or some other software I can buy, to copy the Ancestry tree at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/63977057/recent and then use that Gedcom or whatever the name is of the result from other software I can purchase, to update a tree on RootsWeb, or some other such site, perhaps even to update my present RootsWeb backup tree at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-in/igm.cgi?db=puschtest ?

I understand this is very confusing but I’ve made it as clear as I seem to be able to and I hope it give you enough information to answer at least one of the following two questions :

1. Do the RootsWeb Engineers instructions give you any clue as to how I might use them to regularly copy the Ancestry tree, complete with notes and pictures, to the RootsWeb back up tree as the Engineer successfully used them to copy from an old RootsWeb tree to a new RootsWeb tree?

2. If the Engineer’s instructions are of no help to me in doing what I want to do, do you have any suggestions on how I might find an existing site, RootsWeb or something like it, and software I could purchase, that would allow me to put up a backup tree, somewhere, showing all the information now on my Ancestry.com tree?

I appreciate your help so far and have high hopes you can point me in the right direction now.
Bruce
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