* The Place names from Ancestry are not standard place names - they are Ancestry place names which are often haphazard and incomplete. This will require more "clean-up" even for sources that were not changed by the TreeShare operation. * The Source Template for all sources attached to a specific Fact in RootsMagic are all changed to "Ancestry Record" from Evidence Explained-based source templates in RootsMagic. They will require significant time and effort to perform "Clean-up." * The Source Citations downloaded from Ancestry are inadequate - they are not Evidence Explained compliant, far from it.
* The RootsMagic TreeShare feature works well to download records, sources and media attached to persons in my Ancestry Member Tree. The street address is not indexed by Ancestry so it does not appear in the Residence Fact. for the 1920 census record, the Place Name downloaded as "Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife - Leominster Ward 3, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA". * The Ancestry place names are downloaded as presented by Ancestry for the marriage record, it was "Leominster, Massachusetts, USA" without a County name. In order to make it appear on the "Edit Person" screen as a Media icon I would have to Tag the Media item for the Fact.ħ) Some other things I noticed in this process: The Ancestry source is definitely not Evidence Explained compliant, but it does provide some information about where to find the record, but does not indicate where on the page or who it is for.Ħ) What about the Media? I noted on the "Edit Person" screen for Hattie Hildreth that there was no media icon for the two records (note the second marriage record and the Residence record on the screen below): Seaver household digital image, () citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T625, Roll 747. The 1920 census record that I crafted for the same record in a free-form RootsMagic source template is:ġ920 United States Federal Census, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Leominster Ward 3, Supervisor District 3, Enumeration District 102, Sheet 5B, dwelling #68, family #132, lines 7-10, Frank W. The Footnote source citation for this Fact created in RootsMagic from the Ancestry fields is:Ī, 1920 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1920 Census Place: Leominster Ward 3, Worcester, Massachusetts Roll: T625_747 Page: 5B Enumeration District: 102 Image: 238. Census record? Here is the source template (labeled "Ancestry Record") created in RootsMagic from the "Ancestry Record" for the census record: When this process added the fourth record - from the Ancestry record - the interchange between Ancestry and RootsMagic labeled all four of the source citations as "Ancestry Record" - it eliminated my three EE-based master sources. I had added three sources for this Fact in RootsMagic before I uploaded my file to Ancestry, each with a different source template because I had three different records - a marriage certificate, a Keene NH town record, and the Massachusetts vital record from American Ancestors. It does not provide any indication of how the record was found or who it was for. In my humble opinion, the "Ancestry Record" source citation is inadequate. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," indexed database and digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors () (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), Marriages: Volume 264,, Leominster, 1874: Frank W. The Footnote for this source citation, created by RootsMagic from the Ancestry fields, is:Ī, Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 (Provo, UT, USA: Operations, Inc., 2013).Įarlier, I had created a source citation for this record on American Ancestors using my EE-based source free-form template, and it looks like: Note that there is no source detail for this record.