All members and subscribers of Ancestry.com can view matches with one click from the pedigree screen. Simply click on the number of results to be taken to the results on Ancestry.com.

To graft a tree from Ancestry World Tree into your personal family tree, follow these simple instructions:

1. Click on the link for matching trees in Ancestry Family Tree. This link should appear in the pedigree screen next to the individual's name.
2. Find a family tree you would like to import. You can view the information included in the file by clicking on the pedigree icon or on the name of the person.
3. When you decide to download the pedigree file, click on the "Merge" link near the top of the page. You will now be able to choose how many generations to download. Click on the "Merge" button on this page to add the file directly to your family tree in Ancestry Family Tree.
4. After importing the file, you will receive a confirmation that will tell you how many individuals and marriages have been added to your tree. Clicking on "OK" will take you to the merge screen where you can merge any identical individuals with those who already exist in your family tree

You can use several methods:

1. Get a scanner and scan in your photos and documents yourself. Once you have edited and cropped your images, save them to disk. If you intend to use lots of photos, this method will prove to be the most economical in the long run, and you will learn the techniques needed to give you the best results.
2. Take your film or photos to a photo processing center and pay to have your images placed on floppy or CD.
3. Take your photos and documents to a full-service copy center, and use their services to scan your photos and documents.
4. Use a device like Snappy to allow your video camera to capture not only photos, but frames of a video.
5. Ancestry Family Tree will also allow you to add Sound and Video, MP3's, Wav, etc.
6. Once you have photos and images stores on disk, go into Ancestry Family Tree. Select a person for whom you want to attach a photo and use the Multimedia button to access the multimedia collection screen. Then "Add" your photo. Use "Browse" to locate the desired image. We recommend that you store all multimedia objects (photos, video clips, etc.) in a subdirectory of the directory where your data is stored. For example, if your data is in "c:\AFT\data", put your photos in "c:\AFT\data\scrapbk". (See Tip page for how to put on CD-ROM)

Ancestry Family Tree does not have a built in spell-checker. But with a couple of extra keystrokes, you can utilize the spell-checker of your favorite word processor to do this. Here's the technique:

1. Get both Ancestry Family Tree and your word-processor running in Windows®.
2. Pop up the notes screen for the individual in question.
3. Cut the notes onto the Windows® clipboard (highlight all the notes, then use the cut feature in the edit menu) .
4. Hot-key over to the word-processor (If you have never used [Ctrl-Esc] or [Alt-Tab], try them -- they'll make using Windows® a lot more useful).
5. Paste your notes into your word processor from the Windows® clipboard.
6. Run your word processor's spell-checker, and fix any misspellings.
7. Cut the notes back onto the clipboard.
8. Hot-key back to Ancestry Family Tree -- you should still be in the notes screen.
9. Paste the notes back in from the clipboard.
10. Save your notes.

Once you've done this a few times, you'll find it only takes a very few keystrokes to get your notes back and forth between Ancestry Family Tree and your word processor.

Next, run Check/Repair in the Tools menu. If you encounter any errors, these could have caused the 'bug'. Now see if the bug goes away.

If you still encounter the bug, contact Ancestry.com by email at support@ancestry.com.

*Ancestry Family Tree will read and write to a PAF 3.0/4.0 database.

This problem does not affect your actual data -- this is a problem only with a temporary alphabetic index file. The quickest fix for this problem is to delete this temporary file, thus forcing Ancestry Family Tree to rebuild it. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Record the location and name of your database, for example, "c:\ancestry family tree\data\myfile.aft".
2. Close Ancestry Family Tree.
3. Use Windows® Explorer or My Computer to locate the folder containing the database, in this example "c:\ancestry family tree\data".
4. Locate the temporary alphabetic index file. If you are using a database with the '.aft' extension, you are looking for a file of the same name with a '.afa' extension, and possibly also a file with a '.afx' extension. If you are using a database with the '.paf' extension, you want to find files with the same name and a '.paa' or '.pa2' extension, and possibly also a file with a '.pax' extension. In this example, you are looking for 'myfile.afa' and 'myfile.afx'. If these files exist, delete them. DO NOT delete the 'myfile.aft' file, as this is your permanent database.
   (Note: If you cannot see file extensions, you will need to change a preference in your Windows®. While using Windows® Explorer or My Computer, go to the View menu (Tools menu in some versions of Windows®) and look for the Folder Options sub-menu item. Select the View tab and remove the checkmark on the "Hide file extensions for known file types" checkbox. Then click on OK. You should now be able to see the file extensions, so you will be able to tell which files are which.)
5. Restart Ancestry Family Tree. The next time you enter the Alphabetic Browse screen, it will recreate the 'myfile.afa' file correctly.

If this doesn't work, you can try one additional step:

1. After backing up your database, go to the Tools menu and perform a Check/Fix on the database. This will correct any internal problems with the permanent alpha index.