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Offline Smudgeboy

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Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« on: Saturday 13 October 18 17:59 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

I've had an Ancestry.com account for a few years now, found it really useful but getting to the limits of where I want to go with hints and how diverse I want my tree to be.

I was thinking about cancelling my Ancestry subscription for a year and moving to FindMyPast, as I get the impression that there are some different sources (I can't really afford both).

I was wondering if people could confirm the below assumptions:

1. I can download my tree from Ancestry using a GEDcom file and upload it to FindmyPast?

2. If, at a later date, I want to re-activate my Ancestry account, will everything I've done before I cancelled have been saved under the "Guest" user profile?

Has anyone got any further advice, hints and tips?

Thanks
DEMUTH - Saar/Germany/Deptford/Greenwich
DUNNETT - Suffolk/Deptford
HAWKINGS - Islington/Southwark/Deptford
THOMAS - Clerkenwell/Deptford/Birmingham
SMITH (!) - Deptford/Greenwich/Blackheath
JOHNSON - Deptford/Greenwich
CATCHESIDES - Rotherhithe
STRINGLE - Marylebone
MOSS - Beckenham/Bromley/Sydenham
WILTON - Patcham/Brighton
ATTREE - Beckenham/Lambeth/Dorking/Sussex
SINNOCK - Lewes
STANSBY - Maidstone
RUDKIN & HIBBITT - Rutland
PYKE/PIKE - Street & Ditchling (Sussex)
CAREY - Wiltshire

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Re: Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 13 October 18 19:01 BST (UK) »
You can keep your tree on Ancestry, and update it with facts and dates ;D
What you can't do is add images from Ancestry data sets.

I stopped my subscription to Ancestry some 5 years ago, when I became unemployed.
I still have about a dozen trees on there, and update them frequently! ;D ;D

Added: You keep your user profile, even if you aren't a paying a subscription.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 23 October 18 13:30 BST (UK) »
Use a free trial period on FindMyPast to try a test of your tree data in their scheme.

I've just tried a transfer with one of my trees, and found events which were put in the GEDCOM by Ancestry, but thrown away by FindMyPast.

Images, of course, are not transferred, and if you upload them to FindMyPast, there is no way of seeing anything other than a thumbnail, so you need to make sure you have local copies before your Ancestry sub lapses.

There are differences in the way they want you to organise your data; FindMyPast has events like "1871 Census" while Ancestry only has "Residence". However most things should be understandable after the shift. Incidentally, FindMyPast knows the dates of censuses while Ancestry only knows the years.

Having tried both, I think the Ancestry tree software is a bit slicker, but I find them both very clunky when compared with the software I use offline. Both need a huge number of mouse clicks to navigate, but FindMyPast needs more.

FindMyPast have a public/private option on the trees, but at present "Public" just means that they can be accessed by another subscriber to whom you've sent a link - there's no "search public trees".
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« Reply #3 on: Friday 02 November 18 22:40 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Andrew, really good info.

In the end I have stayed with Ancestry and gone with a monthly FindMyPast for a test period - I must admit I'm not getting on with it very well. The tree software/display is horrendous. I think I'll just mine some info I'm looking for and then dump it.

Out of interest, what's your (anyone's) recommendation for an offline tree software programme (I'm a Mac user)?

Thanks
DEMUTH - Saar/Germany/Deptford/Greenwich
DUNNETT - Suffolk/Deptford
HAWKINGS - Islington/Southwark/Deptford
THOMAS - Clerkenwell/Deptford/Birmingham
SMITH (!) - Deptford/Greenwich/Blackheath
JOHNSON - Deptford/Greenwich
CATCHESIDES - Rotherhithe
STRINGLE - Marylebone
MOSS - Beckenham/Bromley/Sydenham
WILTON - Patcham/Brighton
ATTREE - Beckenham/Lambeth/Dorking/Sussex
SINNOCK - Lewes
STANSBY - Maidstone
RUDKIN & HIBBITT - Rutland
PYKE/PIKE - Street & Ditchling (Sussex)
CAREY - Wiltshire


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Re: Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« Reply #4 on: Friday 02 November 18 22:53 GMT (UK) »
I would recommend Reunion for a Mac user, I used it on  a Windows PC and continued when they renamed it Generations, it was a sad day when they discontinued support for Windows. I regret not switching to a Mac when I had to upgrade my computer, I have never found another programme as good.
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EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« Reply #5 on: Friday 02 November 18 22:56 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Jebber,

I'll check that out.
DEMUTH - Saar/Germany/Deptford/Greenwich
DUNNETT - Suffolk/Deptford
HAWKINGS - Islington/Southwark/Deptford
THOMAS - Clerkenwell/Deptford/Birmingham
SMITH (!) - Deptford/Greenwich/Blackheath
JOHNSON - Deptford/Greenwich
CATCHESIDES - Rotherhithe
STRINGLE - Marylebone
MOSS - Beckenham/Bromley/Sydenham
WILTON - Patcham/Brighton
ATTREE - Beckenham/Lambeth/Dorking/Sussex
SINNOCK - Lewes
STANSBY - Maidstone
RUDKIN & HIBBITT - Rutland
PYKE/PIKE - Street & Ditchling (Sussex)
CAREY - Wiltshire

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Re: Ancestry.com and FindMyPast
« Reply #6 on: Friday 02 November 18 22:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi Smudgeboy and welcome to RootsChat, I use Family Tree Maker and have done for years, but there are a few others to consider. It might be worth googling Family Tree software programmes and compare prices and reviews to help you make your choice.
Carol
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