Access to ancestry

[Helina]

At last just managed to get into ancestry
helina

[Biggles50]

If ever there is a reason to have a proper Backup of your Ancestry family trees that is fully under your control, this should get you heading for the software purchase.

I’m talking a fully sync’d tree between software and Ancestry so that includes all media, images, documents etc and NOT just a Gedcom file.

I’m glad by chance that yesterday I sync’d my Family Trees to my software.

[coombs]

I have a PAF, also am on a great site called Familypedia which is a wiki where I have added my family tree, and you can add biographical details. I think you can on Ancestry but I have never used such facilities yet.

Yes for me also, Ancestry has been playing up all day.

[LizzieL]

My primary tree is on my PC - identical versions on Family historian and Family tree maker. I also have boxes of certificates and printouts on that stuff called paper. I create a gedcom from FTM to put on ancestry, solely so I have a tree linked to my DNA  data. No way would I ever entrust over 40 years of research to any on-line service

[Biggles50]

My primary tree is on my PC - identical versions on Family historian and Family tree maker. I also have boxes of certificates and printouts on that stuff called paper. I create a gedcom from FTM to put on ancestry, solely so I have a tree linked to my DNA  data. No way would I ever entrust over 40 years of research to any on-line service

A wise action.

Spare a thought for one of my DNA contacts, previously I had given her some tech help and she sent me a message asking for help as she had been having Laptop troubles and her Son in Law wiped it and reinstalled Windows.

All her research gone and no backups.

[LizzieL]

As well as trees duplicated on two software programmes on pc, they are also saved on an external drive. Have just got an even bigger external drive, maybe I will do another back up to the new one.