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Many of my cousins are using MyHeritage which seems to be more popular in Germany than Ancestry. Many of us use the Partner sites because of DNA matches with other family members and we do find information there we canвЂ™t currently find in FamilySearch. I recommend the book to any church member starting out with Ancestry and Family Search. I could have just run the course by showing this book Anyway I contacted the author and he gave permission to use images from the book which I could not create myself due to the link not working most of the time during the period I was creating the tutorial. In my search for instructions on how the link works I found an excellent book which gives very simple step by step instructions on how all the FamilySearch options in Ancestry work. They replicated the issues I was having and this is all due to the extreme amount of traffic between the two systems at the moment. I had to contact both ancestry and FamilySearch over the last few days as the link is usually not working at the moment. I did stress during my tutorial that nobody would want to load bulk data into FS as it would create huge numbers of duplicates. The people logging in to our FH workshops are all church members and their main aim is to make sure ordinances can be done for their ancestors.

I too have no interest in polluting FS with duplicates my aim was simply to show people who find ancestry easier to use how they can then make sure the global tree is updated with information that they have gathered and checked. Open that person up, click on the tree and choose add additional family. You can also add additional generations to Ancestry from FamilySearch but only to the end of line person.Boxes appear on Ancestry - on the left is FamilySearch and on the right is Ancestry. Click on the tree again and compare with FamilySearch You can move over any information you want to FamilySearch and from FamilySearch to Ancestry.Then a symbol will appear next to the tree.Connect with FamilySearch (be sure you check the one with the correct ID number.It will be white or grey if you have not connected that person with FamilySearch. Then click on the tree icon in the upper right side. Put any of the green shaky leaves hints in Ancestry. You can add a person from the Ancestry Tree. The person you want to transfer information about must be in both trees - At least Ancestry. You must have a tree in both FamilySearch and Ancestry. If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you have access to a quick transfer of data from Ancestry to FamilySearch and vise versa. I am at home with computers but a lot of others aren't. Hopefully with the workshops we are having, more people will become comfortable with FamilySearch in the future. Of course my aim is to get others to work the same way, start in FamilySearch and then copy across to the other partner sites. Did some googling but so far not getting the right answers hence wondering if anyone here has come across an easy to follow video or simple instructions. So I am comfortable with going that direction but other than moving fields across where people are already connected, I am not sure if there is a fast way of getting information TO Family Search.

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Myself I always start with FamilySearch and then update Ancestry when I get time. I am looking for instructions on the easiest way to import into or export to Family Search.

I realise most likely the information is actually available both places so I don't want them to introduce heaps of duplicates. Especially people starting out with Family History. Sadly I know quite a few people who find it easier to work in Ancestry and hence they have much more information there than on FS. My topic for Sunday's Ward FH Workshop is to help people get their families over to FamilySearch from Ancestry. Moving / Copying Families from Ancestry to FS

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