9/8/2023 0 Comments Family tree builder gedcom![]() They gave me two potential matches for the following person, but neither was the correct one, so I clicked “Not a Match” for each one. You can just click “Continue” and it will be saved. They do not, however, force you to enter a reason. If I do click on at least one replace link, and then click on “Save”, then the following Reason for Update box appears: If I don’t click on any of the “Replace” links, then the “Save” button doesn’t activate. I’m going to be very conservative here, and not transfer anything that is different or suspect. I can now decide to replace some of the information for this person in the tree with the information from my GEDCOM. Now I can select in the top right either “Not a Match” or “Yes”. The first potential match is shown on the right comparing my GEDCOM to what’s on Family Tree. Glitch workaround success!! I get this:īelow the summary, on the left are my 42 potential matches. See Step 5, below)Īha! If I go back and click on “Potential Matches” before it transforms to the “Oops, I did it again” page, the Potential Matches page does appear. (*** NOTE: I learned after the fact that it might be better to do Step 5 before doing steps 3 and 4. Step 3: Review the Potential Matches List I had 2128 non-living people in my GEDCOM of which 680 are already in Family Tree, 42 are potential matches and 1406 that I can add to Family Tree. So there’s a glitch here that FamilySearch should fix, but it looks like the processing worked. The page before does stick around long enough that I can do a screen capture: I try it in Edge, Google Chrome and Firefox. ![]() I go back and try again but this keeps happening. The results flash for a second and then I get taken to this: I press the View link that now appear where Compare used to be. After about 15 minutes, the Status changes to “Ready”. The word “Comparing…” appears as the Status while this takes place. So now I press the Compare button in the screenshot above. Step 2: Compare My File to FamilySearch Family Tree In very little time (less than a minute), my tree was uploaded and ready to compare. I chose my file, entered a tree name and description and clicked Upload. At the end of the section, I click Submit Your Tree. I scroll past the search fields to the section titled What are Genealogies?Ĥ. ![]() I sign into FamilySearch and click Search.ģ. I do want the tree to connect to me, so I find my INDI record in the file and add to it a new line:ġ. The GEDCOM includes all the living people in the file, so all the father/mother/child connections are there, but none of them have any information included, not even the NAME tag. I’m not sure if the photos I have of my relatives will transfer to FamilySearch, but I’ll export them in the hope that they will.Ĭhecking the GEDCOM file with Behold, I can see I have 6413 people in the file. I’ll select all people and omit all living people and all people and data that I’ve marked private. I’ll open Family Tree Builder and export my GEDCOM. I use their free desktop program Family Tree Builder which keeps the two synced together. And maybe I’ll result in finding some relatives who are also registered for RootsTech. ![]() Other than this possibly being a very good way to get my information into the tree, it might allow me to fairly quickly connect more of my branches to the main tree. See the article: How do I copy information from my GEDCOM into Family Tree? One you’ve done that, then you can copy that information into FamilyTree. This does not upload your information to FamilySearch’s FamilyTree, but uploads it to their Pedigree Resource File (PRF) which “allows you to share your family history on FamilySearch without letting other people change it.” She gave this link to the FamilySearch article: How do I upload my GEDCOM file. I had already added all of my direct ancestors to FamilySearch, which amounted to about 31 people, and I connected them to anyone I could find at FamilySearch who was related, putting in the necessary intermediaries to connect us.īut what Elizabeth said that I did not know was that you can upload a GEDCOM file to FamilySearch. Some people like Randy Seaver are connected to tens of thousands of people. What caught my attention was her point 5: “Check your growing list of cousins.”Įlizabeth was talking about Relatives at RootsTech, which looks at your FamilySearch tree and sees if there are any of the over 320,000 attendees that you are connected to. The newsletter was about “Getting the Most Out of RootsTech”. Today I got a newsletter from Elizabeth O’Neal, who runs the Heart of the Family site.
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