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Can my Ancestry Tree work like a private family site on My Heritage?

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Re: Can my Ancestry Tree work like a private family site on My Heritage?

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 5:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Bryan,
Yes, you can have the same here on ancestry. When you create your tree, in the overview section/tree settings, you will find you can make the tree private. Only people you send invitations to can see it. You can make it completely private & not indexed too, if you choose.

The invites will need to have a user ID, like all sites. Free, they do not have to be paying subscribers. Your subscription, just like in My Heritage, covers all things for the others to see what you have. They can view all documents that you attach. They cannot view any others that you have not attached.

Different levels of invites, just like My Heritage... you can them in a "read only/leave comments" invite.... a "can make comments & add data/photos".... and an editor level that can "make changes and help you/do team work" if you want that. These are all the same for My Heritage, from what I remember reading/seeing.

The difference? My Heritage limits your tree size unless you pay substantial fee, every year for that tree. Ancestry.com differs right there. Your subscription to ancestry.com covers your tree already... as big/huge/humongous as you want to make it. No cutoff.

Another difference. Ancestry.com, if you decide (or need) to drop your subscription... your tree will still be there, with all photos and anything else that you have typed in/uploaded to it. (This is excluding ancestry.com document (images) that you have "only attached". Those, without a subscription, will not be viewable. BUT, your timeline will still reflect them as the source. You WILL still have your sources.

If you save all the images to your harddrive, then/if you drop your subscription, you could upload and attach them as like any other image/photo/document that you had already added yourself.

SO, this basically all means, here, you will always have your tree, no matter the size. This is a big plus for me over using My Heritage. I like their site and I've used their software, but, I've continued to just use Legacy 7 and worked on my tree here on ancestry "by hand" so to speak, and I download any images that are of most importance to me, just as that "in case" I ever need to drop my subscription.

But, even if I lose all ancestry.com documents "images" from a subscription drop... I have every single one of them transcribed into my Legacy software and sourced. So, my bases are covered.

If your tree had 500,000 people and 15,000 documents/photos... good for you! Ancestry will have no problem with your tree size. I'm not certain if My Heritage is the same on that one. I can't remember all that I've read on their site.

*Just to note, I'm now trying my hand at their FTM software this last couple of months. I'm slowly getting the hang of all the differences from Legacy. I'm not sure at this point which one I will continue to use as my main software. They both have their strengths, and I really like both of them. FTM is similar to FTB, much more so than Legacy, so using your FTB and a tree on ancestry.com would be a little easier than my using the Legacy. (especially if ever downloading a GEDCOM from your tree. FTB, being more similar to FTM & how the ancestry tree is geared, will fit better into your software than with Legacy. Legacy needs tons of reworking if you ever download an ancestry tree GEDCOM.

Hope this helps. Give a shout if you still have questions.

Val
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Bryan Glenn B... 10 Nov 2013 3:55AM GMT 
Val_G003 10 Nov 2013 12:11PM GMT 
Bryan Glenn B... 11 Nov 2013 3:49AM GMT 
mbmjlm 10 Nov 2013 4:07PM GMT 
frostfreedet 10 Nov 2013 7:07PM GMT 
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