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Now you have a GEDCOM, you might like to analyse it. There is a free program available at http://ftanalyzer.com/

Congratulations Jem.glad you sorted it out
. <3 Barbara

WELL I'VE BEEN AND GONE AND DONE IT!!!! :-D :-D :-D


After all your advice and eventually getting a reply from GR after 3 emails from me .
..... I plucked up the courage and exported a gedcom of my GR Tree to Ancestry!


Even with my old slow lappy it only took about 15-20 minutes from start to finish.
Almost immediately Ancestry had added all the life facts on the profile pages and next to the Profile Names is a little box. If you click on that your GR notes appear.

And everything is intact on my GR Tree too which was what I was most worried about.

Thanks Everyone :-)

Genealogy can prove very enlightening. When I sought help on the GR genealogy thread about my maternal GF's second wife I obtained help. But the who is who in my Mother's big family wasn't as as I expected. One aunt's partner was not her husband.
My other aunts and uncles were a mix from other marriages. Their names remained the same, but their relationship altered..

That's an excellent way to record your FH Maggie. Very impressive :-)

Thank You for your posts Everyone :-)

I am now plucking up the courage to go ahead .... so watch this space! ;-) :-D

I have actually put a part of my tree onto lining paper! :-D
It covers 23 generations - but is only the direct descendants - but many faint pencil lines were drawn to make it legible.
All people on the chart are numbered, and details (including siblings) and interesting 'points', like coats of arms, where they lived etc are in a folder - also numbered to match the chart.
I realised, once I'd done it, that I'd missed a generation off the lining paper - that's what happens when a Polkinghorne marries a Michell, then a Michell marries a Polkinghorne! A Maggie gets confused.:-(
..and yes, they probably were related - St Allen was/is a very small hamlet!

However, all is not lost - I only put it on lining paper for a family pirate party, after I'd found pirates in the family :-D
For 'ease of access', I'd also written 'Ere be pirates' on it at the appropriate generations, so will be doing another one with siblings on it and no graffiti!
I found it a much easier way to see who was who.

David-
I have Census' of Queen Victoria and household. I accidentally found it when I was looking for family in law connections to my Great Aunt. :-)

Thanks Barbra and Elizabeth :-) :-)

I was looking at Elizabeth II's tree. Through 1500 years, very interesting ancestors :-)

Dear Jem and All

Very interesting thread.

I have been trying to do similar with my basic tree.

But I am still keeping my paper notes!

Take gentle care all
Best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Was going to copy tree,root and branch on to roll of lining instead of umpteen
sheets of A4 paper I have so untidily recorded on.

Once again, to those who have helped since I joined GR I thank you

I used Gedcom to send my tree to Email it was copied & I can still see it on.GR .you have a lot on your tree well.done hope.you have found. Some interesting rellies :-D

Thankyou Ken :-)

If you have a family tree program on your computer it could be worth importing the GEDCOM into that first.. That program should have tools for checking the validity of data in your tree, which helps to ensure that GEDCOM has correct data (dates can be a problem sometimes).

Also having a copy of your tree offline would be a good insurance against online subscriptions becoming unaffordable.

Thanks David :-)

I successfully used GEDCOM to transfer my tree to Wikitree and it stayed on GR, so it copies it and places it at a destination of your choice

That sounds great Inky, thanks :-)

Found how to get to the notes on Ancestry tree. Looks as if Wordpad (used to open the GR ged file) cut short some of the data.

Copied from Ancestry:-

DOB July 1836 - from Record & Establishment Books of HMS JACKAL, also his RN service record.
He served approximately 12y on JACKAL out of a total of 20y120d. He entered the RN (First entry in his service record) on 08May1851. Final discharge reads 11Aug1873 from HMS INDUS.

1891 census (North Woolwich) states birthplace - Ireland, Kerry

Thanks Inky :-)

Much appreciated everyone :-)

As an example, notes to one of my greatgreatgrandfathers from my latest ged download:-
1 NOTE DOB July 1836 - from Record & Establishment Books of HMS JACKAL, also his RN service record.
2 CONT He served approximately 12y on JACKAL out of a total of 20y120d. He entered l discharge reads 11Aug1873 from HMS INDUS.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1891 census (North Woolwich) states birthplace - Ireland, Kerry

For your tree I guess the ged file would be about 1.1MB. Not big, but it is only a data file of somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 lines.