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help with Family tree maker 2009

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Madmeg

Madmeg Report 3 Feb 2009 19:47

Dippydebbie and bilbobaggins

Sorry, I did read closely enough that debbie had probably not already got FTM. Apologies for any confusion debbie.

Margaret

Dippydebbie

Dippydebbie Report 3 Feb 2009 15:55

Thanks for help, sorry for late reply , took to my bed with flu, just surfaced.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 2 Feb 2009 08:12

If I am reading this correctly then I assume that you don't have FTM already, so Margaret's instructions are not quite what you need.

What you need to do is to download your tree from GR. To do this follow the Import / Export instructions at the bottom of the GR page, selecting the export option. GR will then email you a gedcom file which you save on your pc. You then load this into your FTM program.

You can do the same for Ancestry though I gather the file will be transferred directly.

As this now gives you two trees you have to decide what you want to do next. One option is to merge them together. To do this open the first tree and then use the merge option to bring in and merge the second file. Do make sure you keep the original copies as merging is not without its problems, especially if you have not done it before.

Good luck.

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 2 Feb 2009 00:10

Hi Dippy Debbie, I bought it for myself. It is rubbish in my view, but give it a try. You need to first save your tree in the current version of FTM as a GEDCOM file. Go to File, Export File, Entire File and choose "gedcom" as the "save as file type". The Gedcom option is generally at the bottom of the list of file types. Save it to your hard-drive in a suitable folder - mine is called GEDCOMs, and give it a suitable name, e.g. GEDCOM Feb 2nd 2009. Save it also to a CD or memory stick, I prefer the CD. You should be doing this regularly anyway in case of crashes.

Load in the new software, and when you are asked to open a file, use the Gedcom file on your hard-drive and it should load at once.

If you don't like the new software, your gedcom can be loaded back into the old software with no problem.

Hope this helps.

Margaret, the non techy person.

Dippydebbie

Dippydebbie Report 1 Feb 2009 16:42

hubby (bless him) just got me family tree maker 2009. My tree at present is on GR and Ancestry . Please can one of you experts tell me how to tranfer my tree to a file that I can transfer to FTM. I am a technophobe and dont know where to start I dont know how transfer a tree from Ancestry into a file. Also Which type of file. Regards Debs