Sounds like they've fixed what was wrong with the upload mechanism because that's what I wasn't able to do, before: that is, just change the "root" person in the file and have it work. By the way, if you still have two GEDCOMs uploaded, note that by the end of the year, these files will be purged from your account. You need to upload a combined GEDCOM by that time. I rather wish they wouldn't purge these old GEDCOMs because there are deceased individuals who will then have no GEDCOM, at all. The note on our member page used to say they would *merge* the files by the end of 2012, not purge them. I think we ought to pressure FTDNA to go back to merging them. I can see why they don't want to merge them - it's much more work for them. But it's their bad planning that they created this situation, so I think they should bite the bullet and take the harder, but better solution. Diana > From: Jim Bartlett > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:25 AM > > I loaded my GEDcom at FTDNA today and the software asked me which > name went with the DNA - so I highlighted my name (number 1 on the > list) and it correctly loaded my 12 generations. I the used the same > GEDcom for my father's account, and this time highlighted his name, > and the software selected the correct 12 generations that go with > him. Amazing! I had been dreading spending the whole evening > deleting half my GEDcom for his upload - what a treat for that to be > done for me by one click.

Diana I only loaded one GEDcom for my account, and used the same GEDcom to upload to a different account. So now each account has one correct GEDcom. And as you previously stated, it automatically populated the surname list in the account that didn't have such a list. Thanks for that info. For deceased donors, it's important to get a living persons email address entered as the primary email for that account, so updates can be made in the future. Each person should think about this for accounts for their elders. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On May 15, 2012, at 6:42 AM, "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like they've fixed what was wrong with the upload mechanism > because that's what I wasn't able to do, before: that is, just change > the "root" person in the file and have it work. > > By the way, if you still have two GEDCOMs uploaded, note that by the > end of the year, these files will be purged from your account. You > need to upload a combined GEDCOM by that time. > > I rather wish they wouldn't purge these old GEDCOMs because there are > deceased individuals who will then have no GEDCOM, at all. The note > on our member page used to say they would *merge* the files by the end > of 2012, not purge them. I think we ought to pressure FTDNA to go > back to merging them. I can see why they don't want to merge them - > it's much more work for them. But it's their bad planning that they > created this situation, so I think they should bite the bullet and > take the harder, but better solution. > > Diana >