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Import Tree

Nathan Fairchild

December 31, 2014 00:16

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Your reality is that many people, like me, have already made extensive family trees using other products. I'm not recreating 1000 people just to try out Geni, but I would have tried it out had I been able to upload my current tree. See ya, Geni!

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  Miguel Kelley November 07, 2015 17:35

  I agree with Nathan - if I can't import a tree, there is no point in working with Geni.

   

  Hope you wake up and realize that the world doesn't revolve around you. Many of us have well-researched and extensive trees to contribute, and are NOT going to rebuild by hand

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  samantha tesner May 07, 2017 16:53

  Is this a joke???  I really can't import my tree?!  You gotta be kidding me iesh okay will go elsewhere gosh

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  Jim Henderson May 07, 2017 22:08

  Well, many of us working at geni have been working elsewhere, and tired of getting "matches" or "hints" from other people's trees with incorrect information in them. We came to geni where we don't talk about "my tree" or "your tree" but "our tree" -- a single tree for everyone. Geni used to allow the import of GEDCOM files, but this led to so many duplicatons and mis-matches that the feature was discontinued some years ago.

  You'll probably find that you don't need to import your thousands of relatives one-by-one. The trick is to look amongst your deceased relatives for people with unusual names, like my g-grandmother, Adelaide Sturt Henderson (Morphett). Search at geni till you find one, check her relatives and you may decide she matches fully with the person in your tree. Then work your way down towards the present till you find a child who is missing. Check with the managers of the parents, and if you can show evidence and they approve, add the person where your branch of the tree connects.

  Then use SmartCopy to copy your branch, a family at a time, from the other site where you have been working. Check and resolve duplicates. All the other relatives are in the tree already, with their documents and photos.

  There's a lot of satisfaction to be gained as we realise we are collaborating with others to develop a more accurate picture of what actually happened than any of us can do on our own.

  Edited by Jim Henderson May 07, 2017 22:23
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  Edwin Henry Rogers August 05, 2017 18:17

  Yes, mass importations create problems.  I've found this with WikiTree and have not found a convenient way to clear up numerous should-be-matches nor to add the many individuals left out of my GEDCOM.  So the GENI ban on importing makes some sense.  Jim Henderson's article above is a good one!

  BUT my priority is and has been to share my research with my living relatives more than to enrich the universe (nice as that might be).  So I have to resort to building websites which can be shared via Internet, CD, DVD, or other media.