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Possibility to export all forefathers spite of amount persons you have added

Mikko Edvard Snellman

February 09, 2022 22:05

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Hi, 

In geni you can only export four times so many GEDCOM profiles as you have added yourself. This can be very difficult to many members. 

Even as a PRO member the situation is not better. 

For instance I do not have possibility to add many more ancestors because my ancestors have been examined so well already long time ago. 

But it is extremely frustrating that  I should write all my ancestors again. It is simply stupid. 

I belong to old priest and noble families that come again and again to my family tree many many times. 

I suggest that geni changes quickly system so that people are able export their family trees in spite of the amount of profiles they have themselves added. Just now there is no sense to buy Pro-membership. 

This change would be very easy to perform. 

You figure it out what is suitable price for this service/option. 

waiting your quick answer 

Mikko Snellman 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  Geni Support Team February 10, 2022 00:17

  Hi Mikko, thanks for your feedback. There are no plans to change the limit on the number of profiles you can export from the site. We limit the GEDCOM export to 4x the number of profiles added and up to a maximum of 5,000 profiles for basic users and 50,000 profiles for Pro users. 

  Alternatively, you can export PDFs of Ancestor and Descendant reports up to 20 generations. See https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055684513-How-do-I-view-Ancestor-Descendant-reports-
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  Mikko Edvard Snellman February 11, 2022 00:30

  Hi, 

   

  I was afraid of this kind of answer that is not real answer at all. Ancestor or descendant reports do not help anyone. The idea is that you do not have to do the same work for many times. I suggest that you really think again this. The idea is that you can serve your customers and still earn. Right ?  It is totally unrealistic to say that there is max. of 5000 or 50 000 profiles when many people already have almost all their ancestors in your profiles.  For instance for many people couple of hundred profiles are maximum because of non-existing registers. In Scandinavia we have longest registers in the world, but even they end usually on 16th or 17th century. There are so many same ancestors in peasant and noble and priestfamilies that 5000 or 50 000 ancestors are a total joke. Nobody finds so many, not even near. Reason is also that the same persons/profiles occur many times. At he same time many church record have been destroyed. Many people want to have also could possibility to print these family trees to A2-paper and so on. There should be some kind of solution if someones all ancestors are already in system. It is totally crazy demand in such case that someone should add more profiles !!!!!  Do not you agree ???? I am sure you can invent something, if you want.  So please, take my suggestion and also other customers suggestions seriously.  

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  Mikko Edvard Snellman February 20, 2022 14:13

  Dear sir, 

  I have not get an answer to my last writing. I assume you understand my very strong point of views. You can earn more by changing your system more flexible.

  sincerely Mikko Snellman