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I built a large tree under a friend's Ancestry account. She let me use her user i.d. and password, so everything is under her name.
I became hooked and I now what to strike out on my own, with my own paid subscription. I bought myself a gift account on Black Friday that will activate on January 1.
I know I can download a gedcom but I believe there's a way to download the documents (pictures, newspaper articles, etc.) as well, with some genealogy software. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Ideally, I want to download my entire tree with all documents, and then upload it back to my own Ancestry account.
To the best of my knowledge, Ancestry does not offer a process to transfer a tree from one account to another. If you still have access to your friend's account, there should be a couple ways to accomplish what you want to do.
The simplest way would be to go to the "Sharing" tab on the tree in your friend's account, share it to your new account and give yourself editor access. The tree would show up in both accounts and you could edit it from either account. My sister and I use this method to jointly build and maintain our tree.
I use Family Tree Maker software on my computer. If I sync the software to my Ancestry tree, all information is maintained on my computer as well as on Ancestry. I believe there are other genealogy software programs that do the same thing. If you purchased this or similar software that syncs to Ancestry, you should be able to log in to your friend's account and sync the tree and all documents to your computer. After logging out from your friend's account, you should be able to log in to your account and sync the tree to your Ancestry account. I have not tried doing this, but I don't know why it wouldn't work.
I want to put the information from my paternal UK tree onto a main tree in the US Ancestry instead of typing it in all over again with sources, photos, notes, etc. I've got it way back so there would be hundreds of entries to type in. I wonder if joining their World Tree format would accomplish it.
I built a large tree under a friend's Ancestry account. She let me use her user i.d. and password, so everything is under her name.
I became hooked and I now what to strike out on my own, with my own paid subscription. I bought myself a gift account on Black Friday that will activate on January 1.
I know I can download a gedcom but I believe there's a way to download the documents (pictures, newspaper articles, etc.) as well, with some genealogy software. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Ideally, I want to download my entire tree with all documents, and then upload it back to my own Ancestry account.
I don't mind paying for it.
Family Tree Maker and RootsMagic are the only options that will download/upload Ancestry trees complete with media. You will have to log into your friend's account within the software, download the tree, unsync it (so the downloaded tree is no longer linked to the online tree), then log into your own account to upload it as a new tree.
I know RootsMagic will let you do the initial download in the free version, but to continue syncing (and therefore probably to upload as well), you'll need to buy the paid version.
Family Tree Maker is more expensive than RootsMagic, but personally I prefer it. RootsMagic does not have a bulk "one click" sync after the initial download, though I suppose that doesn't matter much if you won't continue to the use the software and you're just using it for this one purpose (but once you've bought it, you might as well continue to use it so although FTM is more expensive, I really do recommend it over RM).
My angel started a tree for me and then ran it through (dunno) creating a GEDCOM file.
It was mailed to me and I uploaded it (following my own edit for a how to process)
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