You don’t say which version of FTM that you are using, but this feauture is in FTM 2008/09/10

You can do it from the Share menu>Upload to Ancestry where you are given the option to apply the filter to select who you want to upload.

If you are talking about FTM 16 or earlier and are talking about the online Genealogy.com online tree (which has a limit of 2,000 people), again you have filter capabilities

In all cases you can privatise your file and in FTM 2008/09/10, also decide what notes or images you wish to upload and also mark your tree public or private.

So I suspect that what you are requesting is well and truly available

I would suggest also you have a look at the FTM knowledge base at http://ftm.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ftm.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=-qpTdfKi and in the keyword search type in online trees.
There are a number of articles on the subject

John D

1. To be able to reduce the size, I move boxes aroung to stack them more vertically. Is there a way to select a number of names so that they can be drug around on the chart (similar to selecting objects in Microsoft products by including them in a large rectangle)?

2. When I select a large number of boxes to format them in one of the three previously formatted styles (each being a different color), it does NOT export the box color to the PDF. How do I get the PDF to include the colors?

3. I have several incidences where two lines intersect many generations back. Is there not a way to have the Vertical Pedigree recognize that and not show the ancestors prior to that duplicated?

Thanks. I’m looking forward to the Webinar.
RR

Upload your tree as private not public

John D

Please see my #32 post

John D

Export your chart through Share as a single page PDF

Then using Adobe Reader you can print the large single page image to your continous paper

John D

To Download

From your Ancestry tree go to Tree Settings

From there you can export your tree as a GEDCOM file

From there you can merge it back into your FTM file.

To Upload from FTM

In any view that supports the Share button, click on the Share button and select upload to Ancestry

You need to understand that uploading from FTM to the online Ancestry tree and downloading the GEDCOM are NOT file synchronisation procedures!!!!

Can I give you (and perhaps others a big tip).

Make up your mind whether you want your online Ancestry tree or your FTM tree to be your primary database and only move data in one direction

In my case, FTM 2010 is my primary database. I regard my online tree as simply an extension of the Publish workspace.

So I upload to my Ancestry tree about once per month giving the new tree a discrete name, eg “My file May 2010″ and also delete my previous tree ie “My file April 2010″.

This means that I don’t have any tedious merging data synchronisation problems and avoid duplicates and other nasties.

I use FTM as my main application as it can do literally hundreds of things that the online tree cannot do.

Maybe a future version of FTM will support full synchronisation, but at the present it does not do this, so it pays to think through what you want to do.

John D

Joan McGrath
jem626

The webinar will share tips on features like these:
Publishing charts and reports
Working with Web Search
Merging
Exporting different branches of your tree
Using keyboard shortcuts
Attaching and detaching people
Choosing relationship types (for souses and children)
Resolving unrecognized place names

I expect registration details to appear soon

John D