#Rootsmagic and ancestry software
Software MacKiev and RootsMagic may want to stress the differences between their products,īut their respective FamilySync and TreeShare feature do perform the same function, syncing to the same Ancestry site using the same network, using the same Ancestry API. The FamilySync and TreeShare upload numbers are different, but not very different. This does not makes the fan files a bad benchmark, on the contrary, it is a time-honoured benchmark tradition to post artificial performance numbers you're sure to never attain in practice. Your real genealogy database should contain dates, places and more - and with more data to sync, upload is likely to be slower than than that of a fan file with the same number of individuals. The fan files do not represent a very realistic test the individuals in those files have names, but the files are otherwise empty the files do not contain any dates, places, notes or images. Up to about 25 INDI/s for ENFAN14.GED, a file of 16.383 individuals.īoth products take more than 10 minutes for that file. Your kilometrage will vary with network conditions and server load each time you try.īoth products show a clear overhead for doing any sync at all,Īnd noticeable improvement of upload speed for larger files, The numbers shown here are real, measured numbers, but they aren't very hard numbers, merely typical ones. It's merely a quantifiable aspect that's fairly easy to measure and compare. There's more to syncing than upload speed. Initial upload of ENFAN14.GED took just a few second more than eleven minutes, so that is where I stopped measuring performance. RootsMagic 7.5 TreeShare upload performance file
#Rootsmagic and ancestry windows
Upload time was measured using Windows Clock as the time passed between clicking theĬreate Ancestry Tree and upload RootsMagic File button on the dialog box that appears after you click the Upload to new Ancestry Tree button,Īnd progress bars being replaced by a side by side view of your desktop and web data. RootsMagic also default to uploading practically everything, but as there are no media, sources, notes or places details to upload, those defaults should not affect the test. RootsMagic's TreeShare already defaults to private trees not in Ancestry's index. Testing of RootsMagic 7.5 TreeShare started by upgrading from RootsMagic 7.5.0 to the very latest version, RootsMagic 7.5.1. Initial upload of ENFAN14.GED took just a few second more than ten minutes, so that is where I stopped measuring performance. The time it took to upload the file using sync,Īnd the upload speed measured in INDI records per second. The table shows the file name, the number of INDI records (individuals) in each file,
Till the appearance of the Upload to Ancestry dialog box that says Tree uploaded and linked.
Upload time was measured using Windows Clock as the time passed between clicking the Upload button on the dialog box, It also keeps anyone from coming across these test file when searching the member trees. I chose to upload each file as private, and exclude them from the Ancestry index this way, there should be no indexing overhead to influence the upload speed. I'd like to have tested large files, but neither Family Tree Maker nor RootsMagic tells you how long syncing took, you have to stay around and measure by hand.įor that reason, I decided to stop testing once a fan file took more than ten minutes to upload.įamily Tree Maker 2017 FamilySync upload performance fileįamily Tree Maker's FamilySync defaults to uploading each file as public.
#Rootsmagic and ancestry free
Moreover, because GedFan is a free download, anyone can create the fan files, perform their own tests and post the results. The fan files are numbered, and each fan file is about the double the size of the previous fan file, so they allow getting a good impression of how performance varies with file size. The fan files are a well-known benchmark tool by now. The upload tests were done with the English-language fan files created by GedFan 0.4.0.0. This article looks the speed of that initial upload, and nothing else. The typical usage starts with a one-time upload of your entire desktop database. Typically, you use your desktop genealogy application as your main application, and sync changes to the web tree. You can start by downloading a tree from Ancestry to your desktop application, but that isn't typical usage. There are two desktop products for syncing your genealogy database with Ancestry Member Trees now, and that just begs for a comparison. Software MacKiev released Family Tree Maker 2017 featuring FamilySync on 2017 July 16. RootsMagic released RootsMagic 7.5 featuring TreeSync on 2017 June 28. Family Tree Maker FamilySync versus RootsMagic TreeShare Ancestry Sync performance comparison
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