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By: Dennis Lurgio

Dennis Lurgio — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:42:46 +0000

Ciao Stephanie,

I am interested in giving my son and daughter-in-law a nicely framed bow tie chart of their families. The problem is they have three children which I want to include on the chart. How can I add all three children to this chart under their names?

Grazie,
Dennis

By: Barbara Germain

Barbara Germain — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:08:29 +0000

I have worked on my family history for many years and I have no knowledge of what to do about making a book about this valuable information.
Also what I noticed is that I had several copies of my genealogy in my files and don’t know which one is the one I started with. Lol

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:28:33 +0000

I find it interesting that in previous versions of FTM I was able to create and print books for my relatives. Now I am forced to upload my data to a website. I do not want to upload my family tree to your website, yet you appear to have totally removed the capability of publishing via one’s own computer. My guess is that FTM will then have access to my data, which I do not want to have happen. I am now stuck with either going back to a previous version and purchasing from a different vendor. Had I known that the book creation had been removed from your software, I would never have purchased the 2009 version. I would simply have purchased from a different genealogy software vendor.

I think it is unfair to have have removed the book creation portion from your software package.

Is there any way to upload my tree and prevent FTM or Ancestry from having access to it?

You seem to be forcing folks to upload their trees. Not everyone wants to do this. Not eveyone wants their trees accessible by Ancestery or FTM.

By: Nathaly

Nathaly — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:46:49 +0000

I just received a calendar that I put together at MyCanvas. It was my first serious step into Ancestry’s printing services. I am extremely pleased with the quality of the print and paper, and I am a detail-oriented, particular person. I can hardly wait for the recipient of this calendar to see it. I will certainly do it again. I have not tried books yet, and after reading some of the blogs I am wondering if there is a limit to the number of pages that the program can comfortably handle. The only scary thing that happened to me was that when I tried to get into my calendar project, once I brought it forward, I got nowhere if I clicked on “Edit.” I had to click directly on the front of the calendar before it would open.
I like all the options and hope for more embellishments to be added. However, I haven’t figured out why creative letter embellishments are only available in one letter or number, making combinations impractical unless you want something super-casual. Small embellishments can be quite difficult to move around, and I did have the program freeze up a time or two for short periods of time.
I have not seen the old MyCanvas; so I cannot compare. My favorite thing is that so many options are available that only my creativity level would hold me back.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:29:15 +0000

When I print a copy of my pages, none of the printing is crisp, and such things as death certificates are rather blurry.
I have been very careful not to “over-enlarge” anything. Will the final printed book be blurry, or will the quality be finer?

By: Carol Castaños

Carol Castaños — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:07:23 +0000

My Canvas is ok for me, I think its great you have been able to upload and create so many new backgrounds, most of them are very nice but I think you have forgotten the original idea about Ancestry. I feel you have been taking another road and making to many backgrounds for hundrends of occations others than history and ancient topics You have been making a lot of contents and backgrounds for modern scrapbooking and its ok but dont forgett the original idea! I really loved it and I hope you keep on making military, life style and country backgrounds, ancient history is what we need, the ones with the old ships are fantastic, Id like more of those, we have so little.. Most of the other backgrouds are useless for me. Please dont forgett the original purpose of this site. If some one wants a picture book we can get it anywere else but I chose ancestry because it was different and special to me, you gave great importance to history and ancestry. please dont change it or forget it.

thank you

By: Patricia Dwyer

Patricia Dwyer — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:47:10 +0000

For years I used Generation and my software was very old (4.2) I bought a new software (Family Tree 2009) It promised I could import the old files and I would have 3 months free Ancestory.com..Registion was a problem and kept telling me I was not connected to the internet (I Was)
It would not import the Generations.
I started all over and then went to Ancestory.com..It did not give me 3 months, only 14 days..Help!
I love the new software!
Patty

By: Sue McCain

Sue McCain — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:34:13 +0000

Where do I find the silhouettes? I had read in a blog that they were under embellishments but can’t find those either!

By: Mary Ann Scott

Mary Ann Scott — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:03:38 +0000

I am doing great with My Canvas but I have 2 stories for my Grandmother. The photo gallery only gave me one story. How do I get the other story?