From: b4m <bes...@go...> - 2012-02-23 16:37:11
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I am a subscriber to Ancestry's UK site and I find it very good for census lookups etc. and for connecting with other researchers, but there doesn't seem to be any way to interface with Gramps other than by creating an Ancestry GEDCOM and importing it into Gramps. You could go the other way around, of course, but if you are using the on-line lookups in Ancestry it would be almost impossible to keep the 2 versions in sync. that way. I have tried round-tripping the data, but it was not very successful and I wouldn't do it again. If you import from Ancestry into Gramps you lose all the attached media and notes. What I tend to do is use Ancestry for my main platform when I'm doing research, then every so often download a GEDCOM into Gramps so I can make use of Gramps' greatly superior search and reporting facilities. Actually, Ancestry doesn't have any tree-based search or reporting facilities worth speaking about. I also keep my media and notes in a directory in my home drive. I'd like to keep them in Gramps, but it's too much hassle to keep re-attaching them to events and individuals each time I import the Ancestry GEDCOM. If I want them in Ancestry as well I need to have 2 copies - a local one and an uploaded one. Ancestry doesn't seem to understand external addresses apart from its own census page links etc., as the only way to incorporate images or text seems to be to upload them to your own tree. You can't simply add a link. Another downside to importing Ancestry trees into Gramps is that the event location information is stored in Ancestry as a single string which cannot be parsed once it's in Gramps, so short of going through every location manually and filling in the details I can't do any geographical analysis in Gramps. I know that Gramps has a basic address parser tool, but it looks like it assumes all your addresses are in the same format, whereas some of mine are full street address, town, county, postcode, country etc and some are town and country only. If anyone knows of a better way of handling any of this I'd love to hear about it. e.g. is there a way to import Ancestry's GEDCOM location address strings into a spreadsheet, parse and tidy them there, then map them back into the data fields in Gramps? I am not tech-savvy enough to write my own code, unfortunately. Unfortunately also, Ancestry stubbornly remains a Microsoft shop, and if ever you phone up to try and report a problem with their software they will tell you they only support Internet Explorer, so if you're not using that browser that must be the cause of your issue and you only have yourself to blame! On 23 February 2012 15:41, Michael Schievelbein <mi...@sc...> wrote: > I use Gramps on my desktop combined with Ancestry.com for collaboration. > I have tried all of the current gedcom viewers I could find and have not > found any that I liked. > Last week I tried the Ancestry.com applet and LOVE IT. > It is worth the subscription to have the app alone (IMHO) and the ease of > use when I am researching. > > Michael > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Peter Hewett <gr...@he...> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:36:17 Dianne Reuby wrote: >> > Can anyone recommend a gedcom viewer for Android phones? >> > I've been using the paid version of Family Bee, and loved it, but >> > recently it's removing surnames, putting children in the wrong families, >> > and married my husband’s grandfather to my uncle! >> >> I've been using FamilyBee on Android for over a year, and it has always >> worked >> fine. Currently on Android 2.3.6. Are you sure the gedcom file is not >> corrupt >> somehow? >> >> Ancestry.com has put out an Android app, but I haven't tried it. You >> would >> probably need to have an Ancestry.com account (costs $). >> >> HTH >> >> Peter >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning >> Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing >> also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Gramps-users mailing list >> Gra...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |