Category: Photos

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Karkos Kronicles

September 26, 2017 
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Request for Family Photos

Jim & Jeff,

I’m working on the “blood relatives” website project and need just a couple of photos.

Can you email me recent individual headshots (something from the last 2-3 years) of everyone in your nuclear family? (Dad, Mom, Children, Dogs, Cats)

The end picture will be a square photo of 500×500 pixels, but I can easily crop and resize any image. Mostly, I’m looking for realism.

Regards,

John, IV

P.S. Of course, if you want to send me a flash drive with all your photos, I do have a backup system in place. ?

 

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Blood Relatives Website

Jul 1, 2020, at 11:21 AM,

Jim & Jeff,

Our “Blood Relatives” website will be using a membership plugin that allows us total control over who has access to menu page items down to the level of who has access to specific posts. I will be making all three of us administrators. We can add others as administrators or editors like you, and I wish.

The site will be easy-to-use.

Currently, the public can only access the Home, About Us, and Contact us pages.

I am thinking about making obituaries and recipes public. I have 27 obituaries. I acknowledge where the obituaries come from, but I post a copy since they sometimes disappear from public viewing.

I want to send both of your credentials so that you will have full access. The site has 287 posts and a couple of dozen pictures at this point. I’m not planning on adding many pictures as Facebook does a better job than I can. Perhaps, a focused gallery of a dozen or so photos of each family member?

Send me a note if you want a login. Also, please share the summary details with the rest of the family. If you or they send me their email addresses, I will create user accounts.

Thanks for listening. I hope I have your support on this.

Love,

John

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GEDCOM Files


Sat 7/4/2020 7:31 PM

Hi John,

My name is Cindy and I am a Directly Ancestry Expert. Experts are not employees of Ancestry but are certified, Ancestry users. To protect your personal and payment information, this platform does not have access to customer accounts. However, I am able to answer questions. Thank you for writing.

I am sorry but GEDCOM FILES are text-only files. The downloads do not contain photos and other documents. I have attached a link below that explains more about GEDCOM files. https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Moving-Trees-Between-Accounts

There are two outside companies that sync to Ancestry. When the files are synced they will contain photos and documents. The companies which sync with Ancestry are Family Tree Maker 2017 or 2019 and RootsMagic. I have attached links for both companies. RootsMagic Link: http://www.rootsmagic.com/Contact/ Here is a link to Mackiev Live Chat: https://www.mackiev.com/techsupport/ftm/livechat.html

Please let me know if you have any other concerns or questions.

Best Wishes,

Cindy B.

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GEDCOM Files

Jul 6, 2020, 9:43 AM MDT:
Good Morning John

A GEDCOM is a universal computer language that allows programs and websites to communicate with each other.  Photos are not part of this GEDCOM.  

We have what is called Treeshare, which will allow Ancestry and RootsMagic to sync with each other.  You can download your Ancestry file to RM7 or you can upload your RootsMagic file to Ancestry.  It will not allow you to connect an existing Ancestry tree with an existing RM7 file.  This process will transfer photos and sources.

If you create a GEDCOM from Ancestry or RM7 and upload it, the images will not go with.

RootsMagic’s TreeShare for Ancestry- video on how to use Treeshare/Ancestry
rootsmagictv.com:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOlq7EFIWA&t=612s

link to our website on Ancestry:
http://www.rootsmagic.com/ancestry/

A pdf of how to use TreeShare/Ancestry:
http://rootsmagic.com/ancestry/help/Magic_Guide_TreeShare_Ancestry_FAQ.pdf

Diana
RootsMagic Support

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Find a Grave


Wed 7/8/2020 10:28 PM

Judy,

Wow! Your experiences with “Find a Grave” would have frightened any sane person. No, wonder you stopped. I am glad, however, that you had a couple of positive experiences. It was an excellent service you provided. Even more, people appreciated it, I’m sure. I’m not big on travel (I miss cruising), but when I did, I needed my GPS. Your challenge to locate the right gravesite may be as difficult, or more so than the hunt for distant relations. There would be the satisfaction of knowing you got right, which I bet for you happened frequently.

I’m struggling with a decision on which pictures to put into the Ancestry database. Based on what I think others are doing, a profile picture and the gravestone is all that most folks do. And for some, the headstone becomes the profile picture. Funny, without the examples, I don’t know if I would have thought to use images of the gravestones.

I was initially going to post many pictures, but have decided against it. The Image Gallery doesn’t function like a scrapbook. Instead, one must select a picture one-at-a-time to view them properly.

I have learned how to build websites in my retirement, and I think I will update and expand mine: www.mycousins.org. The difference between a private website and Facebook (aside from privacy) is the opportunity to curate the contents. I’m finding my Facebook contacts publish photos of fair, and only occasionally better quality.

As a photographer, you must notice this. One advantage of my newly developed web design skills is that I am becoming skilled at manipulating images to improve them. Often just cropping a photo makes it more interesting. I was a marketer before I retired, but my creativity was limited to hiring talent. Web design allows me to try my ideas. It has led me to build two websites for my wife, Pam: www.princessofcrafts.com & www.beadedneckaces.com. If you have the time, please check any of them out. Enjoy!

Thanks for sharing,

John, IV

 

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Ancestry Software Needs Enhancements


Sat 7/11/2020 6:20 PM

Jeff,

If you or Jim decide to take on a trial of the Ancestry.com software, you might get a kick out of this listing of enhancements I will be submitting. ?

I’m a fan of the Ancestory.com product. Thank you!

As a former software analyst, I would love to submit several suggestions. Do you accept feedback? If so, where should it be sent?

The following suggestions are in order of those I think would generally help the most.

  1. Ease-of-use and easy-to-use are not the same. Some actions require eliminating repetitive steps. The most annoying is searching for an individual. Not counting entering the name, to search for an individual takes five clicks every time I use the Leaf on the top menu. Find a Person ought to be a top-level menu option. And yes, I do realize that using the tree sometimes is more straightforward.
  2. The five hints shown from the Leaf on the top right-hand menu is too many. Too often, and especially when you have a system message, the menu must be scrolled to show all hints and gain access to searching for an individual. Please give us a settings option to change the number of hints displayed or put the Show all Hints at the top of the list. 
  3. The List of All People is hidden. I love it now that found it. But it has shortcomings. It only sorts by name. It should also be sortable by birth-date or death-date order.
  4. Word and PDF documents can only be downloaded, not displayed to screen. Do I take the time to create a LifeStory and delete the Word and PDF copies? Time permitting, I sometimes do. Ouch!
  5. It is nice to view the full gallery of images and pick a type of media. But there is no way to search the media. Ouch! It would help if you could sort the full gallery like you can sort the gallery of an individual’s record. Search and sort options are needed. Sort options need to include by-event-date. An event-date sort for LifeStory documents helps establish a timeline. Also, gallery photos should display without the necessity to click on every picture to see the full image. The labels should be under a photo, not on it.
  6. Ancestry’s HINTs is a powerful feature, but mistakes can happen. A box of explanations (similar to those offered for ignored hints) is needed when we make a manual reversal. Optionally, to do a reset on the “history” of Ancestry hints would work. Of course, In both situations, I know data must be manually corrected.
  7. LifeStory options should display and use “when the story took place” as the default or an optional sort-by-date. The current sort-by-date-entered has value, but it shouldn’t be the only option.
  8. A “pet” relationship would be appreciated. Pets are essential for many of us, but I don’t think we should use family relationships for them.
  9. We need a Site profile in addition to the Personal Profile. It is a place to provide general site narratives and updates. The present limit of a couple of sentences in the Personal Profile is ok for displaying to the public. It doesn’t address the need for detailed information and summary updates for users as the site grows. One option is to place Site Profile as a top-level menu item and map it to a user-selected URL.
  10.  A font solution setup to give users overall control of website and document fonts would welcome enhancement. Some of us, not all, need larger or a more readable font.
  11. The statistical summary should also count the number of web links. Do this if for no other reason than it acts as a friendly reminder that web links are useful. I don’t have any audio or video yet, but I think about it every time I review stats.
  12. You have the best Reports on the Market. I love your LifeStory and Facts reports, but it took me a long time to find the Family Group Sheet. I would relocate it beside your other two World-Class reports.

Thank you for listening.

Dr. John P. Elcik, IV
Retired Systems Analyst

https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry