Getting the most out of a month's subscription (Ancestry)

[Lalzovi]

My family history activity tends to happen in short bursts whenever I have some sort of holiday. Last year I managed to clean up a lot of my older work and produce some detailed accounts of all my lines, mainly using what is available for free online (and some help from Rootschatters!).

Now, with roughly a month to spare, I decided to take out a month's subscription to access more supporting documents. My plan is to collect as much as I can for a month and then review them at my leisure afterwards. I had done this once before and was disappointed that I was no longer able to see the records I had added after the subscription ended. So this time I'm trying to be clever - I'm downloading all the records on to my computer for future reference and uploading them again as images, being careful to give at least every direct ancestor a record as a profile image because I think this is the trick to accessing other gallery images after the subscription ends. The main reason for re-uploading is because I want my family members to be able to see the images without having to subscribe. Please let me know if my plan is flawed!

I can't quite remember what happens to the story hints we add - will they still be visible after the subscription or should I also download them?

Any other tips for getting the most out of a month?

[Craclyn]

Your story hints should be fine. Any records you use to source your tree will still be there as part of your tree when your subscription ends, but you will not be able to open them until you resubscribe.

[ciderdrinker]

Hi
I haven't had an Ancestry subscription for ages.
But I view the images I saved to my tree on there quite a lot.
Most of them are off Ancestry .
I save each document to my computer .
I type in the event on my tree ,go to add media and then up load the picture of the document from my computer.
No problems ,I can view anytime I like.
Unless the internet is playing up that is.

Am I just lucky ?
No point saving them and doing my tree on there otherwise.

ps it will let me see a list of hints but not the actual document without a sub.

Ciderdrinker

[Lalzovi]

Thanks both of you.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing this time.

Last time I only saved to the tree without downloading/uploading and the scanned records were no longer possible to view in full after the month expired.