I need assistance adding a vast family tree via email attachment onto the site please.

Angela SharleneDavid

I discovered it some years ago via some or other site, and would appreciate help in uploading the entire tree onto family search. I'm clueless and don't have the time to do it individually, as it's a lot. There are a fee inaccuracies I picked up, I need help with changing.

MandyShaw1

A few questions.

1. What format is it in? Gedcom is the most useful by far.
2. Do you want to use it to update the shared, collaborative global FamilySearch Family Tree (realistically, one entry at a time, given the likelihood that many of your family members may be on there already, but you can avoid keying it all in)? That would allow anyone at all to edit the entries subsequently.
3. Or do you want to upload the information as a stand-alone Tree to the FamilySearch Genealogies area, which would normally allow no-one to edit it subsequently, not even you?
4. Or might you be interested in a FamilySearch 'Lab' (test) offering which lets you add the tree to Genealogies and subsequently edit it (and lets you allow others, chosen by you, to do so also): https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/docs/CETsLearnMore

Adrian Bruce1

Err - if this is the "British 1820 Settlers to South Africa" site, then it is a publicly accessible tree on a website. Lots of the data from that website will already be used in other peoples' trees in various other places. One of my distant relatives is on the site and her husband and children are already in FamilySearch FamilyTree (FSFT).

I'm not clear exactly what you're proposing to do but if you want to load a substantial amount of data from the "British 1820 Settlers to South Africa" site, then you will be duplicating possibly substantial numbers of profiles that are already in FSFT. Those duplicates will need to be detected and merged with the originals in FSFT. Who will be doing that?

There is also the question of copyright. The site contains the statement:

Biographies and documents may be copied by users for their personal use. General distribution (including use on other Web sites) is prohibited by copyright law unless permission is obtained from the site owner.

In other words - one off copying is fine, that's what research is for. Wholesale copying is prohibited.

If anyone wants to help with the people who were British 1820 Settlers to South Africa who are already in FSFT, then they are welcome to carry out research into their origins in the UK - I can see that FSFT's details for my distant relative don't go very far back in her history but I know that further information is available in various publically accessible places. Putting it together, however, is hard work.

Ashlee C.

@Angela SharleneDavid You might want to try a free research consultation with a genealogist from the FamilySearch library. You can sign up for that here.

You could also try what was suggested earlier and try searching a few random names in the FamilySearch family tree. Click on the Search tab, then on Family Tree. Then you can enter a name and other information to see if a profile already exists. If you can connect to an existing person on the tree, it is likely most if not all, of the people in your tree are already on the FamilySearch tree.

Angela SharleneDavid

Thank you for your response, however as mentioned it's very extensive, with vast history and names and dates the subsequent generations, so I'm unable to personally upload all the information. Besides, it's someone else's research/tree they've researched, and if memory serves me, I discovered on an 1820 British Settlers site.

Please could you direct me to someone who could possibly assist me with this enormous task?

Gordon Collett

Unfortunately I don't know who could help you out with your goal. But I just want to mention that if this is a publicly accessible tree on another website for English genealogy in the 1820, it is highly probably that it has been accessed by dozens if not hundreds of other researchers and there are probably already several copies of it in Family Tree where users of Family Tree have been working valiantly to combine all the duplicates. Uploading another copy of it will most likely just give another crop of duplicates that will have to be eliminated. Have you taken a few random names from the information you have and checking Family Tree for them?

If this is a community history originally published as a book that someone has converted into a web site, there is also the possibility that the book is already in the FamilySearch Library, digitized, and available through the Books menu.

Can you track down where you originally got this file from and post that? That might help someone answer your actual question.

Angela SharleneDavid

Thanks for all the valuable information and recommendations, it's most appreciated.