At this special time of year the focus is on family even more than usual. I count you all as members of my great family. Bless you all in the coming year!
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Happy Holidays Everyone!
I haven’t made any snow people this season, so last year’s will have to do.
At this special time of year the focus is on family even more than usual. I count you all as members of my great family. Bless you all in the coming year!
How to Download Your Family Tree from Ancestry.com to Your Macintosh
Ancestry.com is a great service. They make searching for and accessing records about our relatives very simple. They also have a very nice online family tree management system, but even if you maintain one or more family trees on Ancestry.com, you’ll probably want to get that data onto your Mac. If you don’t have an Ancestry subscription, click here to try Ancestry.com FREE with a 14-Day Free Trial.
The good news is that the service supports exporting in a standard format called GEDCOM. The bad news is that while they’ve made it relatively simple to do, the functionality is sort of buried in the site. In this video, How to Download Your Ancestry.com Family Tree for Use in Your Mac Genealogy Software, I show you where it is and how to use it to get the genealogy information you’ve captured in Ancestry.com onto your Mac.
Happy Thanksgiving!
In the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving today. I hope you all had as great a day as I did. My wife Carrie and I prepared a wonderful vegetarian—almost vegan—meal. We shared it with our children, Logan, and Paige as well as Carrie’s mom and step-dad. We are so blessed! On this day it is customary to consider the things we are grateful for.
You are one of the reasons I feel so blessed this year. Naturally my family tops my list of blessings, but I am doubly blessed by having a fabulously supportive MacGenealogist family too. Thank you for reading my articles, viewing my videos, and leaving comments. I love it when you learn new things as a result of following along and putting my lessons into practice then tell me about it. Your comments these first four months have been informative and incredibly helpful. Lastly, thank you for supporting this venture financially. You have made purchases through my affiliate links like Amazon.com and bought the first volume of my screencast video CDs. While it doesn’t yet cover the monthly expenses of operating MacGenealogist.com, it helps by giving me hope that I can get it to that point so that I can continue to make informative how-to videos for you.
May the next year be as great for you as this past one has been for me.
50th Screencast
The video included in my most recent article includes the 50th screencast created for MacGenealogists since I launched the site in July! I’d like to take an opportunity presented by this milestone: thank you for the wonderful support you’ve given me.