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[mudmonster]

Thanks for all the helpful replies relating to the ged coms,just tried Roots Magic Essentials  and had a job exiting the program,probaly something I did when it was  saving things (nothing unusual there) must try something else .maybe I should of posted this under technical help
Mud

[mudmonster]

tried again and managed one tree, it won't allow more than one is this right in the essentials

[california dreamin]

Why not try Legacy? I think it is pretty good. You can download for free. It is very intuitive to use. You can make multiple trees.  https://legacyfamilytree.com/

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[mudmonster]

Thanks California Dreamin, don't want to get bogged down with tech some thing simple and cheap will do

[mudmonster]

Hello all,Just a further question about roots magic 9 before I buy it.After I download  my Ancestry family tree to my computer,not a gedcom file does it stay private only accessible to me on my hard drive , or does it get shared to anybody on  roots magic. If it is shared, i take it you have to tick a box for this to happen,it is not automatically shared .told you I was not tech minded.
Thanks
Mud

[RJ_Paton]

What is on your computer is private to your computer - unless YOU make moves to share what is there.

[mudmonster]

Thanks RJ Paton , i was just wondering about it ,they must of shared theirs ,hadn't realised when you downloaded a full tree to RM9 it was totally private
Thanks
Tech is fine when you understand it/I don't takes me ages to work things out

[Biggles50]

Essentials is a cut down, limited feature version of the Full Roots Magic version.

The big selling point not just for Roots Magic and Family Tree Maker is that both can download your whole family tree from Ancestry, by whole that includes media, documents etc. 

A Gedcom only gives references so if you want to have images and documents linked to each person in Software with copies of said media, documents etc on your PC’s you need to add them to software manually.

Software like Legacy IMO only really makes sense if you are starting to build a tree from scratch.

I sound like a Roots Magic salesman but it does have some great Error checking features, the best of any software that I have and I have five different ones.

I do like Family Tree Maker better so my process is:-
Main tree on Ancestry
Download to Roots Magic
Error check tree in Roots Magic
Tree Share to Ancestry to sync the trees
Then update the tree in Family Tree Maker.

One thing to bear in mind with software is that its basic design is that you start the software and after loading your tree you search the internet from within the software.

Presently I use software as a backup but that will change in the next year or so when I call a halt to tree building and start consolidating for the younger generation to each have the data.

[mudmonster]

thanks biggles50 most informative