If your file is 220K, then size isn't the issue because mine is only 120K. But if and when I ever get it uploaded, double-dating is going to become an issue for me, too, along with improper reading of extended characters, which I already know is a problem. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:autosomal-dna- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gregg Bonner > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] trouble uploading GEDCOM to FTDNA > > I uploaded a GEDCOM of 220 Kb yesterday in support of my mom's > Family Finder test results coming out. > > It looked okay to me, except for one thing - any instances of > double-dating in the birth date field caused the privatizing filter > to not understand the date given, and the person was privatized, > even though they were born hundreds of years ago. The name displayed > in these cases was "Hidden", and the birth date given for them was > something like "date input error". > > I did not take any special precautions or measures at all. I simply > brought my mom's page up in Family Tree Maker, then clicked on the > pedigree button, then selected the number of generations to equal 9 > (because that's the maximum FTDNA will show at once in > visualization, and because that should be enough for FF). Then I > exported the persons shown to a GEDCOM that was named after my mom's > FTDNA kit# to the desktop. Then, at FTDNA, I went to their upload > page, browsed to find the file, uploaded, and selected the root > individual (my mom). It worked as far as *I* can tell, with the > exception noted above. > > And just to be sure, by double dating, I mean the term as defined by > about.com thus: > > Definition: A system of double dating used in England and British > North America from 1582-1752 for dates falling between January 1 and > March 25. This was common practice because the new Gregorian > calendar, which went into effect in 1582, but was not officially > adopted by the British and the American colonies until 1752, > recognized January 1 as the first day of the year, while the old > Julian calendar recognized March 25 as the first day. Thus, dates > between those two days prior to the calendar change in 1752 were > often written with both year numbers (i.e. 5 January 1712/13). > > Cheers, > > Gregg > > >From: Diana Gale Matthiesen [email protected] > > >Maybe that's what's preventing my GEDCOM from uploading:  it's too > >big.  I did enlarge it to more generations because I'm finding > >connections beyond five generations back.  I just checked the size > of > >my GEDCOM.  It's 120K.  Has anyone had any success uploading a > GEDCOM > >of this size? > > > >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 AUTOSOMAL-DNA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message