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How to branch a new tree from the old one

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 3:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
I hate to be dumb, but I don't have a "File, Export" in Internet Explorer or even a "File" in Google Chrome, so are you talking about the software Family Tree Maker, not the online Ancestry tree?

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 3:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
No, I'm talking about AFT, Ancestry Family Tree, the Windows program that we do peer-to-peer support of here.

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 3:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for clarifying Robert. I didn't know about this. I'm obviously in the wrong message board!

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 1:05AM GMT
Classification: Query
From my experience, you're not missing much. I have ~400 people to put in a separate tree. The only way I have found to do that is select them, one at a time, by hand, and then export. Then go back and select them one at a time and delete them.

I must be missing something, because it would be truly absurd if tree software that has been around as long as this can't provide this simple function.

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 3:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
Here it is a year later, but I could use some clarification on this, myself. I am a paid Ancestry.com member accessing and building my tree on the website using a computer with a Windows Operating System. I too, have no file export option on the top right. Is there a difference between the website Ancestry.com and the Windows program, Ancestry Family Tree? Is that the "Family Tree Maker" software available from Ancestry.com?

My reason for splitting my tree off to a new tree is I had started building my wife's tree off of mine. While at my family grave site, we found one of my ancestors married to someone with a middle name matching my wife's maiden name. Sure enough, his middle name came from his mother's maiden name and since that name and spelling of it is fairly uncommon, we think my wife and I may not be the first "Storey/Huguley" marriage from both our family blood lines. Anyway, I'd have been better off building her's as a "new tree" as is the option from the ancestry web site.

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 3:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
No, Ancestry Family Tree is a Windows program that used to be distributed by Ancestry.com. That's what we support here. There's another message board for Family Tree Maker.

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 6:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
That's odd that the Ancestry Tree Windows Program is "what [you] support here" because I'm reading and replying to all this from the Ancestry.com webpage's message board. They must have merged the windows program to the webpage, or else Ancestry has a bad glitch. Thanks!

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 12:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Actually you're on RootsWeb's message board. This board existed there before Ancestry.com took over its hosting.

See the link at the bottom of the page for more info.

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 8:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
I found the issue... "genealogy software" is a category within message boards, which is shared with the web service subscribers. The issue is with the search engine as when I plug in a question about the web service, the hits include somewhat related topics within this software category.

They should really consider delineating the two message boards so they are separate boards entirely, rather than misdirecting their patrons to a category that is not intended to support the other services they offer.

Thanks!



Thanks!

Re: How to branch a new tree from the old one

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 1:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Ancestry.com provides links to the RootsWeb.com message boards. Some of the boards fall under the "Ancestry.com" category, some fall under the "Genealogy Softare" category. People often wind up here when they want to be on an Ancestry.com message board. Please note that even on the Ancestry.com message boards the help is peer-to-peer, not from Ancestry.com. For help from them you need to call or email them directly.
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