I had no problem doing the uploads several years back when they were separate Y-DNA and mtDNA files. And I had no trouble over the weekend uploading a combined GEDCOM to one of my cousin's accounts, who hadn't had one uploaded before. The problem I'm having is trying to upload a combined GEDCOM, to replace the two separate ones, on my own account. How I wish I hadn't deleted the other two files before making the attempt. It's a "clean" file (BMD only), GEDCOM v. 5.5, 120K. I tried generating the GEDCOM both with FamilyTreeMaker and with RootsMagic. Both files were rejected at the same stage, and I tried numerous times over a period of days, and... I just tried it again. It's still being rejected. No wonder so few people have GEDCOMs attached to their FF results! I'll be most people try and simply give up. Still haven't heard from FTDNA... Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:autosomal-dna- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Zander > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 12:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] trouble uploading GEDCOM to FTDNA > > I have uploaded gedcoms over 200KB, (only ancestors, only BMD), with > no > problem in the past. If you, Diana, can't even get a 120KB gedcom to > stick, > then there has to be something wrong on the side of FTDNA. I had > thought > that maybe the size of my sons' gedcoms is keeping them from saving. > I know > that the display of gedcoms I have loaded in the past are cut off at > 9th > great grandparents. I would think it would do the same thing with a > larger > size gedcom, not just not load it at all. Or there should be an > error > message. The way it is, it appears to load, and if I wouldn't have > checked, > I might never have known that it didn't. > > Because my husband and I both have only European ancestors, > including > parents, the common ancestors we have found have all been very > distant, > 9th/10th cousins, before these American cousins' ancestors > immigrated to > America. For this reason, uploading a gedcom with less generations > is not > useful to my matches or me. That may be different for people with > colonial > ancestry. > > Karen

I am one of those doing 23andMe transfers to 6 brand new ftDNA accounts. I have tried twice to upload GEDCOMs to each of them in preparation for when the results are ready. They seem to upload fine at the time, but when I go back to check, they have disappeared. I am holding off doing it again until there is a resolution. Samantha On 21 February 2012 16:46, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]> wrote: > I had no problem doing the uploads several years back when they were > separate Y-DNA and mtDNA files. And I had no trouble over the weekend > uploading a combined GEDCOM to one of my cousin's accounts, who hadn't > had one uploaded before. The problem I'm having is trying to upload a > combined GEDCOM, to replace the two separate ones, on my own account. > How I wish I hadn't deleted the other two files before making the > attempt. > > It's a "clean" file (BMD only), GEDCOM v. 5.5, 120K. I tried > generating the GEDCOM both with FamilyTreeMaker and with RootsMagic. > Both files were rejected at the same stage, and I tried numerous times > over a period of days, and... I just tried it again. It's still being > rejected. > > No wonder so few people have GEDCOMs attached to their FF results! > I'll be most people try and simply give up. > > Still haven't heard from FTDNA... > > Diana > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:autosomal-dna- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Zander > > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 12:11 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] trouble uploading GEDCOM to FTDNA > > > > I have uploaded gedcoms over 200KB, (only ancestors, only BMD), with > > no > > problem in the past. If you, Diana, can't even get a 120KB gedcom to > > stick, > > then there has to be something wrong on the side of FTDNA. I had > > thought > > that maybe the size of my sons' gedcoms is keeping them from saving. > > I know > > that the display of gedcoms I have loaded in the past are cut off at > > 9th > > great grandparents. I would think it would do the same thing with a > > larger > > size gedcom, not just not load it at all. Or there should be an > > error > > message. The way it is, it appears to load, and if I wouldn't have > > checked, > > I might never have known that it didn't. > > > > Because my husband and I both have only European ancestors, > > including > > parents, the common ancestors we have found have all been very > > distant, > > 9th/10th cousins, before these American cousins' ancestors > > immigrated to > > America. For this reason, uploading a gedcom with less generations > > is not > > useful to my matches or me. That may be different for people with > > colonial > > ancestry. > > > > Karen > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Back and forth with Ashley at FTDNA the past few days about the gedcoms not sticking. First she said it must be the size. I tried 12 generations. Didn't work. Then I tried 10 generations, and it did upload. Next I asked her if it's a question of generations or KB size. She found out that the size limit is 5MB! So the problem is definitely not size. My gedcoms are just over 300KB which is no where near 5 MB. So obviously size is not the issue. Next question is what IS causing the problem. Waiting for an answer. Samantha and anyone else having this problem, write to FTDNA support and report this! This probably won't be seriously looked at until more people with the same problem report it. Karen On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]>wrote: > I had no problem doing the uploads several years back when they were > separate Y-DNA and mtDNA files. And I had no trouble over the weekend > uploading a combined GEDCOM to one of my cousin's accounts, who hadn't > had one uploaded before. The problem I'm having is trying to upload a > combined GEDCOM, to replace the two separate ones, on my own account. > How I wish I hadn't deleted the other two files before making the > attempt. > > It's a "clean" file (BMD only), GEDCOM v. 5.5, 120K. I tried > generating the GEDCOM both with FamilyTreeMaker and with RootsMagic. > Both files were rejected at the same stage, and I tried numerous times > over a period of days, and... I just tried it again. It's still being > rejected. > > No wonder so few people have GEDCOMs attached to their FF results! > I'll be most people try and simply give up. > > Still haven't heard from FTDNA... > > Diana > >

Is it possible that you are inadvertantly saving the file type as .FTW (or similar) and not .GED?   If you feel like troubleshooting, try uploading a "clean" gedcom, which is to say only 3 people in the gedcom (a person, and his/her parents). Include only orthodox dates and no places or notes or sources or anything.   Also, I think files could be corrupted by opening them in text editors after their creation but prior to upload attempt. For example, if you wanted to clear certain sensitive notes, that may alter the way the carriage return and line feed are handled.   If you make the minimum possible gedcom in .ged format, and don't edit it post-facto, and it STILL doesn't work, then your trouble-shooting days are over. You then would know that it is a systemic problem on FTDNA's end, and not something particular to gedcoms created by you and others.   My guess is that it has to do with over-writing gedcoms. They are trying to switch to combined. It would be academically interesting to me to see the breakdown of those having trouble uploading broken down into types of - brand new gedcom, no over-write; new combined gedcom over-writing maternal only; new gedcom, post-maternal gedcom deletion; gedcom over-writing remaining maternal post paternal deletion etc. I had no trouble with my two uploads. One was upload mixed gedcom no over-write, and one was mixed gedcom upload over-writing maternal only. They say the new gedcom will over-write, but I wonder if there is any effect of prior gedcom deletion with respect to new gedcom upload success.   Gregg   --- On Fri, 2/24/12, Karen Zander <[email protected]> wrote: From: Karen Zander <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] trouble uploading GEDCOM to FTDNA To: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 24, 2012, 9:54 AM Back and forth with Ashley at FTDNA the past few days about the gedcoms not sticking. First she said it must be the size. I tried 12 generations. Didn't work. Then I tried 10 generations, and it did upload. Next I asked her if it's a question of generations or KB size. She found out that the size limit is 5MB!  So the problem is definitely not size. My gedcoms are just over 300KB which is no where near 5 MB. So obviously size is not the issue. Next question is what IS causing the problem. Waiting for an answer. Samantha and anyone else having this problem, write to FTDNA support and report this! This probably won't be seriously looked at until more people with the same problem report it. Karen On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]>wrote: > I had no problem doing the uploads several years back when they were > separate Y-DNA and mtDNA files.  And I had no trouble over the weekend > uploading a combined GEDCOM to one of my cousin's accounts, who hadn't > had one uploaded before.  The problem I'm having is trying to upload a > combined GEDCOM, to replace the two separate ones, on my own account. > How I wish I hadn't deleted the other two files before making the > attempt. > > It's a "clean" file (BMD only), GEDCOM v. 5.5, 120K.  I tried > generating the GEDCOM both with FamilyTreeMaker and with RootsMagic. > Both files were rejected at the same stage, and I tried numerous times > over a period of days, and... I just tried it again.  It's still being > rejected. > > No wonder so few people have GEDCOMs attached to their FF results! > I'll be most people try and simply give up. > > Still haven't heard from FTDNA... > > Diana > > ______________________________ For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message