Merging an ancestry.com account with a family search account
I am wondering if it's possible to merge one family history site with another? For instance, I have an account with ancestry.com and family search.com, but have two separate trees that I am having to fill out both manually. Is it possible for me to merge both so that I won't have to repeat the work on either site?
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The short answer is no.
You can import your work on Ancestry to FamilySearch using a GEDCOM. You can import your work on FamilySearch to Ancestry using Family Tree Maker. But you will still have 2 separate trees. Working on one will not update the other.
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There are some ways that you can sync from one to another account or stand-alone program to one or another online account, but even those work through each person in your tree, one-by-one. There is no way to simply use one and have it automatically make changes to another tree.
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My personal solution to this problem is to keep "my" tree in FamilySearch Family Tree. Periodically I export it to a desktop application and from there write a GEDCOM file and upload the GEDCOM to Ancestry, where it is perfectly acceptable to delete and replace a tree. On Ancestry I ignore all source hints. I go there for the DNA matches.
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you really didn't clarify what exactly you meant by "merge the account"
these are two different companies . . . .
your account will not be merged.
BUT I assume what you really meant was how to synchronize the family tree data between the two systems.
to a large degree I agree with dontiknowyou - that if you really want to accomplish that - FamilySearch can be your primary account - and then export to Ancestry (and not vice versa - since FamilySearch is a collaborative system and Ancestry is not)
But it is critical that you understand clearly what this means that FamilySearch is a collaborative system and Ancestry is NOT.
You also might consider using a third party program that can consider the "source of truth" - and you sync a LOCAL database with BOTH systems)
(but don't think that will be an easy thing to do - you still would have to go record by record - since it really takes YOU as a human being to know what and how to merge.)
I suggest you watch these videos - which dont really answer your question directly - but do very well explain the collaborative nature of FamilySearch and how it differs from Ancestry.
WHY USE FAMILYSEARCH FAMILYTREE
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