Comments on: Online Family Tree FAQs

By: Perry Dean "Bud" MARKS Jr.

Perry Dean "Bud" MARKS Jr. — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:45:10 +0000

I want to update my Ancestry.com GEDCOM file, online, without having to delete the outdated one first. I keep having to do this dozens of times because my updated PAF file information won’t show up in Ancestry.com unles I upload the latest GEDCOM from my PAF software.

It would be so much easier if I could just update the GEDCOM.

The current method keeps bringing up error messges indicating that an automted ancestor match cannot be brought up because of a recently deleted file (which I assume is the file I deleted myself).

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:18:04 +0000

The article does not answer several highly pertinent questions.
1) Will Ancestry continue to suck up GedComs posted on Rootsweb? I don’t have a problem with that, but would like to know.
2) How does updating work? Is the entire tree replaced when I upload a GedCom? Or do I have to perform dual maintenance, both on Ancestry and in my own database?

By: fat man

fat man — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:23:19 +0000

i am no 100

By: fat man

fat man — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:22:49 +0000

get a life

By: Mark Mielke

Mark Mielke — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:42:34 +0000

I was not aware of this transition. How can I get my tree data converted now.

By: Howard James Lewis

Howard James Lewis — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:45:00 +0000

Type your comment here.

By: alondra mojica

alondra mojica — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:32:34 +0000

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By: edolly

edolly — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:33:46 +0000

I have had my family tree online for many years and I have updated it many times. Since you revamped ancestry I have a hard time uploading to my tree. I own a mac and use Reunion for my tree on my computer and export in a gedcom. I have found new ancestors and wanted to upload over this past weekend and always gotten an error message to try again. I already have my tree(Dolly’s Family Tree) on just want to update it and not create a new one. I don’t want to do it individually to time consuming. Any suggestions.

By: Gary Collins

Gary Collins — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:57:10 +0000

Dear Joanne (message #93),

A more appropriate analogy than of ‘stitching’ stuff onto your family tree is of what happens to one’s boots when one walks through a cow pasture.

Gary Collins

By: Joanne Sholes

Joanne Sholes — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:29:54 +0000

I have spent the last few hours working with people who posted information on some of my family members to their public trees. Over the years I have shared various family lines with other researchers.
Now I find many of these people are transferring their information to your Public Trees. No problem except now I find various unrelated people being ‘stitched’ to my families. Ancestry has provided’hints’ and now I find my ancestors with extra spouses and children and assorted facts that are totally wrong. I realize with old roots trees many folks cut and pasted and duplicated but they weren’t being aided and abetted by Ancestry with ‘hints.’