How do I add a GEDCOM file to "Family Search"?
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The article below from the Family Search Help Center will assist you in loading your GEDCOm filer
to FamilySearch. Click on the link below an it will take you to the article.
How do I copy information from my GEDCOM file into Family Tree?
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Short answer: if you're talking about FamilySearch's Family Tree, then please don't.
Longer answer: there are two places in FamilySearch with trees: Family Tree, which is an open-edit "one world tree", and Genealogies, which is a searchable archive of genealogy files that people like you and me have uploaded.
Uploading a GEDCOM to Genealogies is fine; it's kind of like a cloud backup, only better, because it's searchable/viewable for other FS users as well as for you. (Go to https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees, scroll down to the blue section below the search fields, and click the "Submit your tree" button to get started.)
It's the next step (the one detailed in the link that the mod posted) that's the problem: in a collaborative tree as large as this, most of the people in your GEDCOM may already have profiles, and adding your file would either create duplicates of them, or possibly overwrite conclusions that are more accurate than yours. The compare-and-add process is badly flawed: it does not find obvious duplicates, and it does not give sufficient visibility into the existing tree to make good decisions about importing conclusions. Many long-time users of FS's Family Tree would like to burn the whole thing with fire. Therefore, I strongly urge you not to try to add your file to the tree. Instead, use Find to locate your deceased relatives who already have profiles, and then add any missing people one at a time, manually. It'll be a lot less work, in the long run.
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HI @EliBerman
If you upload your GEDCOM through the Submit Tree link on the Genealogies page at FamilySearch, it will be preserved exactly as uploaded in our Pedigree Resource File. You may want to review the following knowledge article which is found in the FamilySearch Help Center. Additional embedded links at the bottom of this article will prepare you to work with your GEDCOM at our site should you choose to do so.
Because we work in a shared, World-wide FamilySearch Family Tree, others may be concerned that you may not be careful as you compare what is in your file with what is already in Family Tree, therefore, you may be cautioned about whether or not it is in your best interest to do the comparison and review that will allow you to copy new information into Family Tree. Please remember that this must be your choice, and you are welcome to copy new information into Family Tree if you wish to do so.
We wish you every success with all of your continued family history efforts.
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Eli
Welcome to the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum.
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
Further to what has already been preferred ...
A couple of thing to consider ...
FIRSTLY ...
Here an old 'standby' of mine, that I have previously proffered on occasion ...
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Most new (and, some old) Users/Patrons DO NOT understand the basic 'nature' and 'premise' of "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', when they join in.
Please let me explain ...
We do not have our OWN "Tree" in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
We ONLY have "Branches" (ie. Ancestral" lines), that are interconnected, in this SINGLE "One" World "Tree", for all of us, that is "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
"Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' is NOT like 'On-Line' "Websites" (eg. "Ancestry_com"; or "MyHeritage_com"; or, the like); and/or, 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes (eg, the OLD, now no longer supported, "PAF"; or, "Ancestral Quest"; or, the like).
We DO NOT have "Private"/"Personal" 'Trees' in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' like other 'On-Line' "Websites"; and/or, 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes.
We do not even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, the "Deceased" individuals/persons in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
And, most importantly ...
We DO NOT even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, Our OWN "Deceased" Ancestors/Family/Relatives in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
"Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' is built on a "Open Edit" Platform - hence, why any registered User/Patron can "Edit" (ie. Add, Delete; and/or, Change) ANY "Deceased" individual/person in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
I hope this helps, somewhat.
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And ...
SECONDLY ...
As I always 'say', to User/Patrons, who mention the "Upload" of GEDCOM File into 'FamilySearch' ...
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You can; but ...
Please DO NOT Upload a GEDCOM File into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
Upload the GEDCOM Files in the "Genealogies" Part of 'FamilySearch', that is fine; but, please NOT into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
Some of the reasons that Users/Patrons (like myself) DO NOT want the ability to upload a GEDCOM File into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' are:
(1) It is most likely that individuals/persons in a GEDCOM File are ALREADY in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'; and, most Users/Patrons DO NOT even take the time to look to see if any one in their GEDCOM File is already in "Family Tree", in some instances, negating the need to even upload the GEDCOM File.
(2) There has been (many) cases where Users/Patrons, using the "Compare" process (of the upload) have "Dismissed" a "Possible" Match with an individual/person already in "Family Tree"; so that, their "Record", from their GEDCOM File, is loaded into "Family Tree", regardless; just so that, their "Record" appears in "Family Tree" (and, in some instances, for Members of the Church, so they can do the "Temple" Work, despite the fact that the "Temple" Work is ALREADY done with the "Possible" Match with the individual/person already in "Family Tree").
(3) Even with the "Compare" process (of the upload), there has been (many) cases where Users/Patrons have uploaded THEIR version of an individual/person in their GEDCOM File, on top of (ie. Over) an individual/person ALREADY in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" that has been there for MANY years and is well documented and "Sources" - in many instances obliterating all of the documentation and "Sources".
(4) If an individual/person is ALREADY in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch", there is NO need to up uploaded one's version of an individual/person from one's own GEDCOM File - just take note of the the 'FamilySearch Person Identifier' (PID) of the individual/person that is ALREADY in "Family Tree"; and, one can go back later to ensure what information/detail is recorded and attached for that individual/person. Just DO NOT uploaded one's version of an individual/person in their GEDCOM File, on top of (ie. Over) an individual/person ALREADY in "Family Tree" - obliterating all of the documentation and "Sources" ALREADY in place/on record.
(5) The "Hours" (sometimes "Days"; or, even, "Weekes") of work, by other Users/Patrons, that can be needed to CORRECT the DAMAGE done by the upload of a GEDCOM File can be disheartening.
I am sorry ... 'off my soap box' ...
Enter (ie. 'Create') the individuals/persons in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' one at a time - on a one by one basis.
Many of the individuals/persons in a GEDCOM File, most probably, ALREADY exist in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
Only one or two generations of the "Living" individuals/persons; and, perhaps, maybe, only one or two generations of the "Deceased" individuals/persons, may be required to be entered/input into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch"; BEFORE, some of the "Deceased" individuals/persons, from one's Ancestral Lines, ALREADY existing in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', are discovered.
Use the "Find" facility/function/feature to Search "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', one may be surprised to find some (if not, many) of them already there.
Many well established and documented (eg. "Sourced") individuals/person in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch' have been RUINED, by the upload, a GEDCOM File, into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
I hope this puts things into perspective.
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MANY Users/Patrons, have experienced, the HEARTACHE and DISAPPOINT, of having to, "Clear Up"; or, I should say, "Clean Up", their "Ancestral" Lines, that have been MESSED UP, by the "Upload" of GEDCOM Files, into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
Again, the "Upload", of GEDCOM Files, in the "Genealogies" Part of 'FamilySearch', is just fine; but, please, NO further, NOT into "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
I hope this helps; and, gives you some further perspective.
Brett
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