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Dennis J Yancey
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January 9, 2021 edited February 8, 2021 in Family Tree
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Downloading family tree data from FamilySearch Family Tree

 

Every few days we get questions in the commmunity about how to download a persons family tree from FamilySearch Family Tree.

 

Recently Scott Hepworth brought up the topic and wanted to know how he could generate chart/database of the numerous descendants of of one James Arbon

 

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KWJR-K11

 

There are some limited capabiltiy in FS to view a descendants report - but often people feel this is defficient - and are looking for a means to download the data to their local PC so they can analyze and manipulate the data with more ease.

 

Intrinsically FamilySearch doesnt have an option to download a portion of the Family Tree Other than "printing to pdf" one of the limited reports that are available.

 

However that being said - to accomplish this task/need - This task of downloading a portion of the family treee can, none the less, be accomplished rather easily and quickly using a 3rd parting program. Among those that have this capability are programs like RootsMagic, Ancestral Quest and a few others.

 

So rather than just give some abstract answer as to how downloads could be done - I feel to share a concrete example - and the output that was generated.

 

First I took the PID of James Arbon - and using the program RootsMagic - which is my primary genealogical program for locally stored genealogfical databases - I used the download from FamilySearch option and entered the PID and indicated I wanted 6 generations of descendants. I kicked off the process and a few hours later - had a database of about 5,000 people on my local PC - with no interaction needed in the process.

 

Then using the "out of the box" reporting capabilities of Rootsmagic - I generated a couple descendants reports for James Arbon.

 

here are the results - over 5,000 people in a descndants report

http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/James_Arbon.pdf

 

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    January 10, 2021

    Thank you very much Dennis! What a gift!!

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 10, 2021

    send me your email address and I will send you a version in editable format.

     

    [email protected]

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