Hello again kj_norway,
You have said my next step is to go back to RootsWeb for only they know what their software will accept. So I have prepared, what turned out to be a long, series of questions and the necessary exhibits to show what I was talking about and why.
All of this ws is copied in the long draft email to them that was copied below.
I asked if you could you scan it and see if it covers the questions you suggested I ask them and make any corrections, deletions or additions you feel necessary.
Unfortunately I ran into that "Unauthorized" trouble message again and although I deleted much of what I had in it, it seemed no matter how much I cut, it still wouldn't post. If you can send me your email address to
pusch@comcast.net, I can email it to you. If not, perhaps I can just send you a few of the paragraphs of explanation the final paragraph with the final questions copied below and bracketed with quotation marks.
"Some of the new information does move from the Ancestry tree to the RootsWeb backup tree with updates. The new individuals move with the update as do links to the new notes and picture but not the notes and pictures themselves.
The links, while helpful if a reader understood what they meant, seem useless added as they are without explanation. I would add a paragraph above each list of links explaining what they are and where they lead."
AND
"I posted to the Ancestry Message Board as you suggested and have received suggestions but those suggestions were that I down load the Gedcom code on examples of a note not moving and a second example of a picture not moving and send these examples of the Ancestry Gedcom code to you at RootsWeb, who alone know what code you at RootsWeb would accept, and with that code sent you, ask you how the code should be corrected to more the pictures and notes or, if that movement was impossible, then how to add an explanation telling what the links that did move were and how to use them."
AND
"I will give you one Note, on Ebenezer Snell’s page,not traveling example and one Picture not traveling example on Ruth Emma Bevington's page. Both together with their present Gedcom codes.
The Note not traveling example is that Ancestry note shown in the Media Galley an the Ancestry tree at:
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/63977057/person/44112747326/...does not travel to the RootsWeb backup tree page at:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...although you can see that the title of the note does appear on that page as well as a link two lines above the title that says:
FILE:
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=f0df079b-43...If you copy and paste that file link to the address bar at the top of the RootsWeb page and click enter, it takes you to the notes back on that Ancestry tee page."
AND I END
"So, Yvonne (THE PERSON AT ROOTSWEB I ADDRESSED THIS DRAFT EMAIL TO AND WITH WHOM I WAS CORRESPONDING BEFORE I POSTED THE QUERY ON THE ANCESTRY MESSAGE BOARD), if either you or someone else at RootsWeb can tell me, for only RootsWeb knows what code you will or will not accept, can tell me:
1. Exactly, step by step, what Gedcom added code language would move the notes and pictures from Ancestry to RootsWeb or failing that, allow me to insert a paragraph explaining what all those links are.
2. Exactly where and how would I insert this new code language into the current code.
3. How do I then save the changes so I can then upload the changed Gedcom into the RootsWeb backup tree showing the notes and pictures or, at the least, explaining how a search can see them if he wishes to.
I understand you, yourself, may not be able to tell me all this but I’m sure within RootsWeb there is someone who can and I would think RootsWeb would want to show as much up-to-date information as possible to their users.
I can’t believe these new since November problems are happening to me alone but must be shared with all your other users whether they have yet complained to you or not.
Then the final question is:
4. Once you have told me what and how to add or subtract from the code, step-by step I do insert this new language on these two pages and then, if that works, hundreds of others, can you tell me if I must repeat this every time I update for every new note and picture since last November or if that will only be necessary for those new since the last update?
Thanks for your past patience and help and I hope you can help me just this once again.
Bruce"
To kj_norway again, I've cut all the rest of it but am anxious to get your corrections, deletions or additions before I send it on the RootsWeb. As I'll be send that by email, Yvonne will get all the code and other things I cut.
I look forward to your response again this one last time.
Thank You,
Bruce