Downloading family tree from ancestry

Make a beautiful, inexpensive photo book for your family with Chatbooks! Very useful — thank you. Hi Elizabeth, I always advise all of my beginner genea-addicts to start with software and then upload a tree. That way, they will never be caught unawares! I keep very little on my online trees. You just never know when they will become unusable or vanish completely. Better secure than sorry! I moderate a genealogy group on Facebook. Many of the members have their trees on Ancestrydotcom.

Thanks for these great instructions! Most of the popular genealogy software programs are desktop-based. Even those that have a companion mobile app would still need to be set up and managed from the desktop. Ancestry has been known to remove things from their website from time to time also.

If you want it, save it. I would love to hear of one if anyone knows of one. Downloading your Ancestry tree is just a way of preserving your research at the time of download, so if you make changes to your tree on Ancestry, you would need to download it again to get a current copy of your tree.

I use Opera browser which has a camera icon on it which enables you to either take a picture of the page you are looking at and download to your computer, or save the page as a PDF. Really, it is important. Another important item is to sort by surname. For example, make separate trees for your fathers or for your mothers family and not one giant tree containing both. At some point it needs to divide for the sake of organization.

I have been using Ancestry for 10 years. I was so excited to get all the information and pictures into the program. My grandmother had done it for 78 years and I took it over from her. All of a sudden the program changed and in the parents box cousins names came it and it was all messed up.

I had to quit using it and go back to pen and paper! ALSO if you change to Apple you have to repurchase the program and start over putting all you information and pictures into the program. Hi LaVon! Could you possibly have logged in with the wrong account? I hope you get it figured out! There are social share buttons to the left of your screen and at the very bottom of the post.

Your email address will not be published. Also notes, you refer to notes being useful above, but not on the extract macro? The double names used to be when match had a picture — I was filtering that out. Notes are difficult to grab automatically so I leave them behind. But the final copy gets rid of the duplicates. Re Running the Macro. Thanks for this I see that the Relationship is not passed on, with our ability to now add this if we wish, it would be useful to pass it on to the final sheet.

I seem to be missing fields Regards Kay. Thanks for this great overview of web scraping on Ancestry. I did something similar, using multiple tabs and formulas instead of macros. This allowed me to create the standard cluster chart from the otherwise inaccessible Ancestry data. I pasted data from my DNA match page into a single column, then pasted data from or so different shared match pages in the subsequent or so columns. Using control-A to select the entire page, then copy, then switch to Excel, then paste into the next column required quite a lot of time, but otherwise worked well and ultimately delivered the very helpful DNA cluster chart that groups matches by common ancestors.

We Firefox users banged our head against a wall for quite a while before discovering this very important piece of information!

Thanks so much for sharing! It can take a LONG time for the machines to chug and the output looks messy, full of pictures, etc. Then follow instructions to remove blank rows and run the Macro … Why this way??

For me, I ended with the same table look but I was able to click on any Match Name and it took me straight to the appropriate Ancestry MATCH page in a browser for easy access to more details.

Thanks for the tip. Ditto, I did the same. That sort of auto-sourcing aspect worked really well whenever questions arose.

I copied the info from Chrome and ensured the page was fully loaded. My guess is that you have added great notes to your higher matches that describes their relationship to you. Unfortunately, the macro can get confused by content in the notes vs content in the normal display.

I just wanted to say thanks for making all of this info available — it is greatly appreciated! As far as I am aware no one in my family has ever attempted a family tree, so I have ordered a kit from Ancestry and am excited to get started. The info you have provided here has already been super helpful, so thanks again! There is a box in the middle of the article that lets you enter your email to receive a link to downlaod the spreadsheet.

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Thanks again for letting me know. Hi Margaret, Recent reader, first-time caller. In the meantime, as long as you are working in Microsoft Excel, you may as well use Word. Hope these comments prove useful to some. I downloaded the new macro from a much older version. I suspect I am doing something wrong. The download from Ancestry worked fine. Very helpful. Hi Irish Rover! Thanks for your comments. There is nothing like a hard copy. I print off all photos and media for each member of my tree and place it in an album for my family tree.

Is there any way to download the tree AND images? It seems redundant to have to reattach all the images. Any help would be appreciated.

Could you please tell me how I can download all the media [photos and stories] from my tree? Thank svery much! Great information, we also offer royalty free music for commercial use. Since we create and sell the music directly from our 2 composers there is no question as to its legality and a purchase supports 2 real musicians with no middle man. Come check us out next time you need music for your next great information.

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