Places - treeshare / ancestry

RootsMagic
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Hi,
if I change a place name in RM 10.0.2.0, then unfortunately there is no change (only show changed people) for treeshare/ancestry.
What am I doing wrong?
Best regards

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You aren’t doing anything wrong. You’re just a victim of the differences in the database structures of RM and Ancestry Member Trees. The former has a master table for Places that each event points at for its Place. Thus one revision of a Place affects every event using it. The AMT has no master Place table; each event has its own Place Value.

Revising a Place in RM was resulting in large numbers of changed people in TreeShare compare that meant each and every event in the AMT had to be updated, one person at a time, to clear. There was such a huge and cry from some users that RM Inc took place comparisons out of the changed people criteria.

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Thanks for the explanation, @TomH.
As an ancestry user, RM had 2 big advantages for me:

  1. I get the documents and pictures.
  2. I have help with the structured revision of the places.
    So now the 2nd point has been dropped. What a pity.
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It somewhat depends on which one is your master. I also spend a lot of time cleaning / consolidating places making extensive use of place details. RM is my master, and I periodically push updates to Ancestry after each round of updates.

So if I change Gaston, North Carolina, USA to Gaston, North Carolina, United States I use care to make those updates before I upload to Ancestry via TreeShare so the other changes I’ve made mark the person as updated and then the place changes are reflected in the upload.

Obviously the TreeShare process is sub-optimal, but the overall process in RM is better than the others. I have Heridis, Reunion, FTM, MacFamilyTree, etc, and use both Mac and Windows when needed.

I’ll see what happens when FTM 2024 comes out, but for now RM best suits my workflow.

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FTM has that capability.

I use Ancestry as the main repository of my Tree until I cease subscribing.

I use RM as a backup as the Tools are very good.

I then Tree Share back to Ancestry.

Then I use FTM 2019 as another backup on a different computer and use their Sync with Ancestry feature.

FTM Tools with the exception of the Place naming is IMO currently inferior to RM.

Best again IMO is to have multiple repositories of the Family Tree.

Additionally the Backup files for each are stored on multiple r3movable drives.