Create a gedcom file from Family Tree data
It would be nice if you create the ability to download a gedcom file for an ancestor with all individuals below them in the family. Gedcom files can be uploaded to ancestry.com and other sites. They are widely used. If you have the ability to generate a report of descendants from an individual it is no different to format the data into a gedcom to download.
I worked for 35 years with computer software writing programs, aka apps, now. I had to write a number of such programs to format and manipulate data to send to others, including banks and government agencies.
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Try the getmyancestors tool (on Github), which includes the sources, unlike the other way of doing this which is via a third party application such as RootsMagic.
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The irony is, FamilySearch knows all about GEDCOM: they invented the format, originally.
But the fact remains that the only way to generate such a file from FS's Family Tree is to use third-party software. There are several options that can download your relatives from FS and then generate a GEDCOM for you; the three that I remember are Ancestral Quest, RootsMagic, and Legacy, but you can check on my memory by looking in the Solutions Gallery.
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