Comparing after upload

Ladysadie11

I have just upload my tree with over 60k names on it . Any ideas how long this will take and when done do I receive an email notifying me?

Áine Ní Donnghaile

For a tree of 60,000 names, the compare process may be quite lengthy.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-copy-information-from-my-gedcom-file-into-family-tree

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Yeah. Um. Please don't.

That Compare process is ...faulty. It fails to find actual duplicates, and hides the few that it does catch under such a mountain of false matches that they get missed out of sheer tedium. And throughout, it does not give you enough information to make good decisions.

Also, 60,000 people is several orders of magnitude more than the process was ever meant to handle.

Leave your upload in the Genealogies section where it belongs (and already is). Use it as a reference as you update the Tree one profile at a time. It'll be faster in the long run, because you won't be constantly cleaning up after yourself.

Chas Howell

@Ladysadie11, please read the help article Aine Ni Donnghaile refers to. Remember you do not have a personal tree on Family Tree. We all share the Same One Tree. Every change you make changes everyone else's information. I can't help but think many or most of those 60,000 profiles are already in FSFT and many of them well documented.

Help Article 1052, "After you upload a GEDCOM file to the Pedigree Resource File, you can copy the information into Family Tree. When you copy this information, however, you could inadvertently create duplicate records. You could also add information to Family Tree that is incorrect, or erase information another user contributed. Rather than copy all the information into Family Tree at once, please consider transferring the information manually, entering only the dates and facts that you know are correct."

Ladysadie11

Well Chas Howell, I would like to say I have spent years gathering info on my family and have attached 1000s of records that I have spent years on... Because most (not all) of what I've seen on my family on here(Familysearch) is incorrect.. But don't worry I have removed my tree now... It's so annoying seeing incorrect info

Amy Archibald

You can also check out this Help Center article: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-copy-information-from-my-gedcom-file-into-family-tree

FamilySearch recommends a small GEDCOM file of up to 100 names to make the compare and copy process easier to manage.