How to Download Your Family Tree From Ancestry.com

Once you create a family tree on Ancestry.com, you'd hate to lose all the work by ending your subscription.  Good news is that you can download your family tree to your computer. However, to see the tree again, you'll need special genealogical software.  Family Tree Maker ($40)  and PAF  (free) are two of the more popular programs that will work.

When you download a family tree from Ancestry.com, the file is called a GEDCOM.  This file is then imported into one of the software programs so you can see it.  Keep in mind that before you important anything into your software program, you'll want to be sure and backup any existing trees you have first.  If something goes wrong, you don't want to lose what you've already done.

For detailed instructions on how to download your family tree on Ancestry.com, click here