Ditto for pretty much everything Diane stated. File extension .ged, only ancestors, only BMD, never opened in text editor. I do have umlauted characters, but that's not the problem, since I have three other kits with basically the same gedcoms loaded successfully. Interesting is that a 12 generation gedcom did not load, whereas a 10 generation gedcom did for these two transfer kits, even though, supposedly, size is not the issue. Just about 6-8 weeks ago I updated gedcoms for two of my other kits (with about 14 generations). That went without a hitch. But, after doing that, I had that message on my personal pages about not having any genealogy information entered. I wrote to FTDNA, it was reported to IT, and a few weeks ago that message disappeared. Maybe something else broke when they fixed that. Maybe it's something else entirely, but I agree with Diane, FTDNA's IT department does have a certain "history". Karen On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:autosomal-dna- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gregg Bonner > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:05 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] trouble uploading GEDCOM to FTDNA > > No, the file extension is .ged. I was successful in uploading a copy > to my cousin's account, and these are very similar files he is my > first cousin. > > These are "clean" files: name and BMD (birth, marriage, death) date > and place only. No sources, no notes, nothing else. That's why the > file is only 120K. There are split dates, but they cannot purport to > accept GEDCOM format if they can't handle split dates. > > These were fresh exports, I did not fiddle with them. > > That's what I've suspected from the beginning. Their IT department > doesn't have a history of doing things right the first time. > > Look at the example of the earliest ancestor: if you enter too much > text in the textbox, nothing happens. No upload, no error message. > Nothing to clue you in as to what is wrong. It used to be that the > software just truncated your entry, but still uploaded it. Now it > leaves you wondering what's happening. > > I don't recommend anyone experiment with this because you may end up, > like me, unable to do an upload, at all. For now, I'm leaving my > other cousins' accounts alone, even though they still have separate > Y-DNA and mtDNA files. > > Diana > > > > >