Thursday, October 26, 2017

UPDATE - Tree Not Searchable (Ancestry / RootsMagic)

The verdict is in! 

 I need to accept hints on Ancestry in order for my tree to become searchable.


Ironically, my DNA 'shared matches' list was working even though I was accepting the hints on RootsMagic and not on Ancestry!

Not only do I have shared Ancestry hints and circles but the list of hints and circles has been growing.

Thus, I didn't think there was an issue with the way I was using RootsMagic!



Now, that I'm aware of the issue, I'm going to change my workflow.
  • Accept valid hint on Ancestry
  • Use RootsMagic to source that hint and manually add the image (as I was doing prior to TreeShare)
  • Ignore pink sources and media on TreeShare
 In the meantime, I'm going back thru my 5 generation pedigree and
  • Clicking confirmed sources and changing them to undecided within RootsMagic
  • Accepting those sources on Ancestry
 Now, I wait for Ancestry indexing to pick up my tree.

I would like to thank the RootsMagic community (both Facebook and RootsMagic Forums) for helping me work thru this issue.
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2 comments:

  1. Renee ZamoraOctober 26, 2017 at 10:39 AM

    Marking a hint Accepted on Ancestry will mark it Accepted in RootsMagic. If you turn around in RM and mark it undecided your going to flip the switch and mark in undecided on Ancestry too. Whatever you set in one place will be how its set in the other. Don't want to see you drive yourself crazy trying to make RootsMagic hints look one way and Ancestry's another. It's not possible.

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  2. Marcia Crawford PhilbrickOctober 26, 2017 at 7:16 PM

    Unfortunately, if I accept an Ancestry hint and then do TreeShare, I get the generic source and the generically named image.

    Thus, I'm giving up on TreeShare for sources and media for now. I will enter them in RM as I did in the past.

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