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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA I manage has hundreds of matches showing as maternal
« on: Sunday 31 March 24 15:13 BST (UK)  »
Another thought - you've not accidentally attached the DNA results to his father rather than your friend?

Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: FindMyPast special Easter offer 30% off
« on: Thursday 28 March 24 14:23 GMT (UK)  »
I don't think it's new subscribers only because I had to logout to see the offer.  If I clicked the banner while logged in, it told me I was already on the highest sub (or words to that effect).

Jan :-)

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The Common Room / FindMyPast special Easter offer 30% off
« on: Thursday 28 March 24 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
Just noticed the banner at the top of the page as I had to login for the second time today:

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/subscribe?promocode=EASTER30

Till 1st April apparently.

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Technical Help / Re: Simple way to create new email just to access new Ancestry account
« on: Friday 08 March 24 15:42 GMT (UK)  »
Is there some reason you don't want to use the existing account?  Because when your brother set you up as a guest, that means a guest account will have been created for you.  You won't be able to set it up again, and even if your brother deleted his own account (as opposed to cancelled his subscription) it shouldn't affect your account, which belongs to you.  Try to sign in to it, if you can't remember your password there will be a "forgot password" link.  Once signed in, use Sandra's link.

You can have more than one tree per account.  I don't know if there is a limit but many people have dozens if not hundreds.

best wishes
Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: Copying ALL Data From Other Ancestry Family Tree Account?
« on: Friday 29 December 23 13:34 GMT (UK)  »
Wexflyer, I'm finding the same.  Entire branches of my Ancestry tree copied wholesale, including the ahnantafel numbers I put in my direct ancestors' suffix fields (which is how I've come to recognise the source).

I think I might have found out how it's happening.

When checking trees presented as hints, there's the option at the top of the page to select all trees, rather than work through them individually.  If I check that box then the "review selected tree hints" button beneath the person in my tree is no longer greyed out.  If I click on it there seems to be the option to add everything found in all the trees presented as hints.

Just a little bit dangerous (unless your aim is to be the person with the biggest Ancestry tree).

Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
I'm pretty sure I have some pages that I printed out at the library all those years ago, will have a rummage around and pm a scan to you tomorrow if that's OK


probably no need now since BushInn1746 has now posted an image which is much clearer than I remember my photocopies.  I'd forgotten the microfiches were by county!

Jane :-)

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Technical Help / Re: Ancestry saying user has no trees when there is one!
« on: Monday 30 October 23 13:42 GMT (UK)  »
I think we've got to the bottom of it.  My contact has made herself home person, as tellx suggested, and now I can see all her trees.  I'm guessing she can too but time differences mean we don't get to correspond in real time.  I suspect that previously there was no home person set.  I'd assumed it was her GF but I think that's because the person I searched for when I found the tree was her GF.  As mckha489 so rightly pointed out, many of us research for friends and we won't necessarily feature in their trees.  The important thing, I suspect, is that the tree must have a home person.  Any home person.

Jane :-)

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Technical Help / Re: Ancestry saying user has no trees when there is one!
« on: Sunday 29 October 23 19:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for this suggestion tellx.  Home person is her grandfather.  I'll suggest changing it.

Jane :-)

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Technical Help / Re: Ancestry saying user has no trees when there is one!
« on: Sunday 29 October 23 13:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for everyone's input including the pm I received.

The issue my contact has is she can't see her own tree, even though we presume it must be attached to her profile somehow as it can be found in a public tree search.  And it is a public tree.  Once I'd found it through the search I was able to browse it as normal.  I've sent a link to my contact (she didn't send me a link in the first place, what I received was a message from her about a shared ancestor).  My contact shouldn't have to bookmark her tree from the link I sent, or search for it in member trees, in order to find it again.

I imagine that if her tree can be properly attached to her profile, it will no longer say "no trees".

Jane :-)




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