I decided to TreeShare my tree to Ancestry so I could see for myself what happens with my notes.
But… I’ve tried it 4 times, each time (after the first try) deleting the tree on Ancestry, unlinking it in settings in RM, resetting it, and running database tools.
Each time I try again, I get the same result. Every single person in my paternal surname group (direct line) does not upload. Nor do I or my sibling. No one is marked private. Only myself and my sibling are alive in that line.
I think there is something wrong with Ancestry or else the TreeShare API right now. I had reason to delete my Ancestry tree and reload yesterday. When I did, it said it completed successfully, but quite a few people were missing. For example, my maternal grandmother’s parents and siblings are included, but she is not, nor are any of her descendants (including me!). This is a private tree so I don’t limit living people. Basically, all I did was to upload everybody and everything.
I’m going to try again tonight, running the upload overnight to see what happens.
I uploaded again just now. Again, I have people who didn’t transfer to Ancestry even though the upload was apparently successful. This time I uploaded everything except media so the upload would go faster. RM 10.0.9 64 bit, Windows 10.
I ran a quick SQLite query just to count. There are 192 people in my RM database who are not linked to Ancestry, out of 39,397. They seem to be the same people as before. There is nothing obviously common about the people who were not uploaded.
Go to Search, Find Everywhere and check if you have “class.” (without quotes) entered anywhere. Ancestry will reject the batch being uploaded if someone is found with “class.” It looks like possible coding. You will have to reword the sentence so it doesn’t end with the word class.
the last time you blame that issue it did not exist for me – so while “class” might sometimes be factor – it was not on a previous version when you blame it. I proved “class” to be was not the issue. Also, if “Class” is truly a known issue – users should be warned not to use it (“class” if they intend to interact with ANCESTRY so this is avoided. I assume RM is unable to pressure ANC resolving the issue on their end. Or better – add coding to strip out “class” if present so it does not transmit in the API to cause issue. I am sure there are also error logs to determine such things.
I do have a lot of occurrences of the word “class” without the quotes. Without counting them all I suspect that this is a full explanation of my problem.
Such occurrences are necessary and desirable. Here are a few examples.
Quote from an obituary: He was a member of Fountain City United Methodist Church and the Christian Homebuilders Sunday School Class.
Quote from an obituary: Ruth attended Scarbrough Elementary School and Robertsville High School. At Robertsville High School, she was the star player on the girl’s basketball team and the valedictorian of the graduating class of 1941.
Quote from a transcription of a Civil War widow’s pension: WIDOW (Class.)
Quote from a compiled family history (not originally from an obituary): The Cross family was active in the first Baptist Church where J. D. served as a deacon and taught a mens’ Sunday school class for many years. He participated in community life by being involved in Rotary Club.
Note from a 1930 Census transcription: They were living in a working class neighborhood of mostly railroad and hosiery mill workers, with many of the women in the neighborhood employed.
Note from a compiled family history (not originally from an obituary): He was a man of very deep piety; he was an exhorter and class leader for more than fifty years, and was one of the most able men in prayer I have ever heard.
From a military service record: Enlisted US Navy May 15, 1951 - Mobile, AL
In for 5 years, no months, no days. Rating at Discharge - Store Keeper 3rd Class
I tried running TreeShare again using 32 bit RM 10.0.9 instead of 64 bit. The results were substantially the same, except that there were 166 people not uploaded instead of the 192 not uploaded with the 64 bit version. I can’t explain the discrepancy.
Upon being reminded, I do remember the problem with the word class from some time ago. I guess I sort of ignored it because it hadn’t affected me. As I remember, this did not used to be problem. Then Ancestry changed something, and now it actually is a problem. I only just now encountered the problem because I only just now reloaded my RM database to Ancestry.
I am not going to change sentences in a couple of hundred documents to get rid of the word class when the sentences are transcriptions which are exact copies of the words in the document. I will quit using TreeShare before I do that.
There’s not a single mention of “Class” in my tree at this time. My attempts at uploading exclusively eliminate everyone in a group I’ve named Paternal.
After you upload the tree to Ancestry, does running ‘TreeShare for Ancestry’ with the ‘only show changed people box’ ticked show the missing people on the RM side of the box? If so you should be able to add them one by one quite quickly as a workaround.
RM always fails to upload my small 400 person tree to ancestry unless I exclude both media and sources. It stalls at 80% and ancestry has a tree with no people which can only be deleted through your profile icon. This seems to be a “feature” of the RM mac version. FTM has no problem with the same tree and syncs fine. RM has a timeout issue but now my internet service is 1GB and it still fails.
