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Comment by Sandra Taliaferro on October 22, 2009 at 2:55pm

Yes, when the box pops up one option is "save to your computer", I browse, select the folder, name it andclick save. But when I go to that folder on my computer the image is not there.

Comment by Barbara Bosy on October 22, 2009 at 2:13pm

Did you also try to save it in your computer because if you did click on add photos a a box will pop up which would say browse then you can reply that photo . I never had a problem with that but thats a first. Good Luck !

Comment by Sandra Taliaferro on October 21, 2009 at 10:56pm

Is anybody having trouble saving images from Ancestry to their computer? I'm sure I have done this before with no problems. Tonight I save the image, but when I check the folder on my computer, it is not there. Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Comment by Marvin A. Huggins on October 16, 2009 at 9:38pm

There are lots and lots of transcription errors like that in the census records on Ancestry. Sometimes it is also the error of the original census taker. Bad handwriting compounds the problem. Your discovery highlights one of the ways to get around the problem. If you are fairly certain that the family was in a give place and they don't show up in an Ancestry search, you can even go to the images of the original pages for the particular enumeration district and scan through the names, looking for the group of given names that fits the family.

Comment by Sue Pearson Greichunos on October 16, 2009 at 9:09pm

Recently, I was helping a friend locate information on her husband's grandparents and gr-grandparents. I have an Ancestry subscription; my friend does not. She was particularly stumped because others who had helped her in the past could not find the family in the 1920 Census. We knew the last name (Troyer), and we knew the first names of all members of the family, but putting them together was coming up a big ZERO for 1920. Finally, I took the person with the most unusual first name in the family (it happened to be a daughter), keyed in ONLY the first name to Ancestry's 1920 Census search with that person's date and place of birth and given names of the parents (thank goodness we knew this much), and pressed Search. Voila!! Lots of possibles popped up, but it was easy to pick out the right one because the location where they lived at the time was familiar to my friend & me. There they were, the whole family unit, under the name FRORAR. Viewing the actual Census page, most of it was pretty illegible from some kind of aging damage, but it could be confirmed that this was the Troyer family she was looking for by the parties' given names, etc.

Comment by Russ Worthington on October 16, 2009 at 8:14pm

Dave.

Do you have a Genealogy program? Most Genealogy programs will open a GEDCOM file. That is the purpose of that type of file. I don't have a MAC, nor have I used one, but if you have Reunion or MacFamilyTree you should be able to download a GEDCOM file from YOUR Member Family Tree, your software should be able to open that GEDCOM file.

Hope that helps,

Russ

Comment by Dave Glogowski on October 16, 2009 at 8:05pm

I'm new to this group and would like to know how Mac users use this fantastic web site. I've not found a Mac software application that has a web integration capability like Family Tree Maker or Roots Magic--a capability I really like since I'm not fond of retyping source citations.

How does the GEDCOM download/upload capability work? Are their any known anomalies or incompatibilities with either Reunion or MacFamilyTree?

Thanks
Cheers,
Dave

Comment by Patty Wimpsett Killion on October 11, 2009 at 2:52pm

Oh Michael, I could just hug you!!!!!! Your suggestion worked and I found my information. I have been working on this for quite a while without asking for help. People when you need assistance ask for it. I have wasted so much time.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Patty

Comment by Patty Wimpsett Killion on October 11, 2009 at 1:24pm

Hi Everyone,
OK, I have a silly question to ask. I have acquired a name on my family tree I'm assuming through the shaking tree process. For some reason I'm not sure about this surname and I've been trying to go back to the point where the name showed up on my tree. However I have several people with that surname and around 4,000 total on my tree.
My question is there a way to track a surname going from the right to the left? Or in other words going from the oldest date to the newest?
I hope I have explained myself. I would really love to have help on this.
Thank you.
Patty

Comment by Alaine Keisling on September 13, 2009 at 8:59am

I received a number of auto-emails today from ancestry that my census name corrections had been added to the index. It's the first time I'd seen any notices sent out since the new system rolled. But when I clicked on one and then another to look at them, the maiden names I'd submitted had been added to the husbands and children as well. I know that for the past day or two, when you make a last name correction, it's asked if it was meant for other people as well and perhaps this is why. I thought it was to make it easier if you *were* correcting a whole family, rather than having to do it one at a time.

Was there a bug in the new system that attached surnames to the entire family, even if the name was identified as a maiden name and submitted only for the wife/mother?

lol -- admittedly, as well as being concerned about incorrect information that might confuse someone, I also dislike my name/ID being affiliated with and blamed for the wrong data.

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