How do I up Load my GED FILE?
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Teresa (Smith) Harding How do i upload my ged file?
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Jim Henderson See the comment by Amanda on October 5, 2017 at
https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115001551314-upload-Gedcom-file-to-Geni-com
The SmartCopy that she mentions is very powerful, and you can import a generation at a time. Start with yourself or someone else who lived recently, and then check each generation for duplicates. Because geni is a whole world tree, it's very likely that you will soon find that someone else has already developed the tree for the earlier people in your GEDCOM file, and you will gain the benefit of their work.
At MyHeritage, Ancestry and similar sites, people build their own trees, and talk about "my tree". At geni we like to help each other to develop and correct the whole-world tree, and we talk about "our tree". The main reason that I see for moving from another site to geni is to avoid having to evaluate thousands of "hints" from other people's trees, and decide if other dates of birth or death are correct. At geni, the goal is that each person exist only once in the shared tree, and together we can get the details right, through "peer review".
The link to SmartCopy is
https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783
It's good to watch the video there.
I hope you find this explanation helpful. Let us know how you get on using SmartCopy.
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Trevor Gavin Hawes We use GenesReunited.co.uk for our tree (which has GEDCOM export/import) and say 200 entries (each with numerous documents, photos, links, dates etc) so would like to see some sort of way of getting all that data into Geni. So far, very very few of the people on my tree are in Geni ( < 10%)
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Jim Henderson Hi Trevor,
I suggest you read again my post, just above this one, and the link there, for the reasons that geni no longer allows us to import GEDCOM files.
I have asked Jeff if he has any plans to implement a way of getting data from GenesReunited, but I doubt he will be able to put the programming effort into a site that doesn't rank up there with the big ones like Ancestry and MyHeritage.
So what about this for a way forward:
- Export your data from GenesReunited to a GEDCOM file.
- Get a free trial account at Ancestry.com
- Upload your GEDCOM file there.
- Add SmartCopy to your browser.
- Start a branch of the Whole World Tree at geni for someone who lived recently. Let's call him George.
- Copy George's ID number from the address bar in your browser into the clipboard then open a new window in your browser and go to George in the tree that you just made at Ancestry.
- Copy the whole family to geni -- parents, siblings, spouces and children all in one hit.
- Check at geni to see if any merges are needed with people who are already in geni.
- Move back a generation, to George's father. Let's pretend his name was Robert. Repeat from step 6 above, for Robert, copying his parents, spouce(s) and siblings.
- Repeat for other people in each generation, working back to antiquity. I think you will have copied your 200 records fairly quickly.
Hope that idea helps. We could put our screens together over the internet and I could help you get started if you like.
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Jim Henderson @trevor gavin hawes
I forgot to mention that when you have used SmartCopy to copy your records into a branch of the Whole World Tree at geni, you can delete them from the free account that you made at another site, before you pay too much money there.
I made a request on your behalf in the discussion about SmartCopy at
https://www.geni.com/discussions/145968?msg=1250791
and the author of SmartCopy gave it serious consideration. A couple of others responded.As you can see, if anyone works on providing a smart solution for you, either a way of importing a GEDCOM file or a way of copying your work from GenesReunited, it will be a long time before that is available. In the mean time, the suggestion is to use an intermediate site as I have outlined above. You might like to report in the discussion of SmartCopy any problems that arise as you work through those steps.
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Jackie Cetnar I really do not understand why you cannot upload your GED file onto this web site. I over hundreds of ancestors in my family trees. This is way too much data entry again.
I am hoping that I can upload a GED file.
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Jim Henderson Jackie, if you read the material at the links in this question, you will understand. The first one, near the top, contains
Currently, you cannot upload a GEDCOM to Geni. We disabled GEDCOM uploads because they created a tremendous amount of duplicates in the past. This caused a lot of hours of additional work for curators and members of the community to merge all the duplicates and clean up the World Family Tree. You can read more about it in our FAQ.
There are plenty of genealogy sites where you can upload a GEDCOM of your ancestors. Here at geni, we are cooperating to build a single tree for the whole world, of our ancestors. This is not your tree or my tree, but our tree. If you would like to join us in this activity, you will find the SmartCopy tool very helpful. Basically, you get a temporary free account at MyHeritage or Ancestry or some other site that the tool works with, and upload your GEDCOM file there. Then you start with yourself and use SmartCopy to copy your parents and siblings into your branch of the tree at geni. Then you look for blue markers on the people you have just copied in. If you find one, it means that this person is already in our tree at geni.com. Check the relatives, and if it is a genuine match, request to merge the two versions of the same person. Then you work back through the generations a family at a time, and you'll probably be surprised at how many ancestors of yours are already in our shared tree.
For example, as I was building my branch of the tree at geni, I worked back to Adelaide Sturt Morphett, who married George Henderson. A blue marker appeared on her profile, and I requested a merge with a profile that someone else had already added. Her manager agreed, and I gained access to her 18 ancestors :-) That's how we benefit from working together on our tree at geni.
I outlined the steps you could follow, in my posting above, on October 17. The offer there still stands -- we could put our screens together over the internet and I could help you get started. Just send me a message through the geni system and we'll arrange it.
You are wanting to join us in cooperating to build a single tree for the whole world, and I have outlined how you can bring into our shared tree the benefit of all your work. I hope you will join us.
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