When I have downloaded a tree from Ancestry into RootsMagic (I have 11) before it has taken an hour or two. Not this time!
My tree is large with over 16,000 people and has a lot of sources/media. I bought a new windows 11 laptop and hope I didn’t make a mistake. It is a NIMO 15.6’’ IPS FHD-Laptop, 16GB RAM 1TB SSD AMD Ryzen 5(Beat i5-1135G7, 4 Cores Up to 3.7GHz. I thought it had all that I needed and, as per usual with RootsMagic, the downloading and importing went pretty quickly but the media has been at 99% for hours and hours.
Is this possibly normal? Did I do it at really bad time as everyone is on Ancestry on the holiday? When should I give it up? If I X out the panel showing that I’m still at 99%, will I lose everything? Can I just use what has been downloaded without the media? Best next steps?
Please excuse my lack of knowledge/skill. I’m 72 and NOT a digital native!
If you cancel out, you will not lose anything that has been downloaded. I suspect that it’s closer to 100% complete than 99%, and that it may even be at 100%. It just seems to get stuck at the end instead of actually stopping. I do not know why. This problem has been reported many times before.
I seriously doubt that it has anything to do with your new machine. 16,000 people is actually fairly small as compared to some users. My database is about 40,000 and I consider it fairly small as compared to users with hundreds of thousands of people in their databases.
I don’t have any lines I can trace anywhere near that far back. My database is only as large as it is because I track from my most distant ancestors back down to as many of their descendants as possible. So I have a lot of fifth and sixth and seventh cousins in my database (plus spouses). I frequently question how much I really care about tracking cousins that far removed from me.
For those newer to Genealogy research, years ago a Royalty database was distributed with one of the early versions of Family Origins (predecessor to RootsMagic). It is one of the few “guest” gedcoms I have added to my database. In 2018 Gary Boyd Roberts of the NEHGS published an update “Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants…” There are a number of fairly good resources. I tend to find the “old stuff” of much more interest than the latest generations. I figure I can leave the research of the newest generations to people closer to them in time as I am not comfortable asking for information on living people from people I do not know personally. I personally concentrate on pushing my own family lines back to early New England for the most part.
yeah its a hard to know what to “stop” but I have learned I am related to way more people that I would have expect (even if 8th or 9th cousins). I am related to several people connected through my wife by marriage – she is not “blood” relate but I am.(her sister inlaw and uncle by marriage for example). I tend to recognize patterns and know what to look for to find those more easily (this more of a gut instinct type thing than much else)