I am somewhere in the middle of my genealogy, with over 800 ancestors identified and ?? more to go. I would like to be able to print drafts of selected pieces of my tree. (for example, a list/tree of everyone descended from one ancestor, or a portion of the tree for ancestors from Massachusetts...

I don't want to pay for a product from ancestry Press, I want to print it on my own printer. How can I do this?

jim

The easiest way is to realize the the online trees are not genealogy programs but rather display applications.

Maintain ALL you genealogy data in a *real* genealogy program on your own computer and you can, depending on your program, manipulate it in almost any way you like- including printing various and sundry reports, charts, etc.

Thanks,
That makes more sense. Is there any way to link my data in Ancestry.com with a "real genealogy program" or do I have to create a Gedcom export file?

jim

The easy way is to Download a gedcom on your Ancestry tree and import that gedcom into your genealogy program.

Be warned- it probably won't be a clean import and will need editing once it is in your genealogy program.

Once that is done then make any additions, etc. to you genealogy program. Yuo can export a gedcoom from it and upload that on occasion to Ancestry as a new tree since it is impossible to update a tree already online.

AG is absolutely correct - you want to have a real genealogy program locally on your computer where your real tree resides.

For your printing question, if you have created posters, charts, books in MyCanvas you don't have to purchase the publication package. If you have the ability to create PDF files, you can just print out to PDF file locally on your computer and then print that file to your local printer.