I've uploaded 2, so far. It takes a few days for them to be checked so that you can complete the import, and I have had no experience of having to merge anybody, yet. The down side of WikiTree is the amount of time involved in converting an uploaded person from this http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Maggs-37 to something more like this http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-22994 for 2 reasons 1) getting the formatting the way the WikiTree community likes it 2) doing that makes me re-visit every bit of information for that person in BK, Ancestry and Genes Reunited - I worked on Taylor-22994 for nearly 5 hours and found errors, omissions and new sources of information. I am not interested in the DNA testing side of things as I am not sure of the value of it, but I do like having information out on the web as it has led to connections with more than one distant relative. Regards Steve On 24/07/2015 08:42, Bill Webster via wrote: > Have any readers here uploaded a BK gedcom to WikiTree? > > I'd be interested in your opinion of WikiTree and your experience of uploading and editing that upload - and how much information you decided to upload, or not. > > I have been to a couple of lectures recently where very experienced genealogists have uploaded just names, dates of bdms, and places of those bdms. > > Some have uploaded just their direct lines, no cousins etc. Others with strong interests in DNA have supplied more names, I think. > > Bill > > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > 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 > . >

In addition to Steve here's my view: Having used WikiTree for over 1 year now. It's my ideal place to give all my research a permanent place and share it with the public. Ideal to include scans of evidence like I did for my great Grandfather and his naturalization certificate: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Basso-29 It takes a bit of time indeed to get used to it. Every person can only exist one time in the database so the checking of the merge results is very important. Unfortunately you have to have a birth date on every profile you upload. As a BK user I have almost all my "old" ancestors recorded correctly with the baptism date that was in the church book mentioned and mostly there is no birth date mentioned (pre 1795 in Germany). That's the only weird thing, so I had to edit all my direct line ancestors that I uploaded to WikiTree and gave them an about date of the baptism date as the birth date (best solution to fulfill their requirement). You should start with uploading your direct ancestors first of all (maximum 999 is allowed) and just let them check automatically against the 10 million profiles for matches. If you do nothing, your Gedcom is automatically deleted after 30 days. To take your data into WikiTree, you have to go through the merge process that Steve described. My tip is to start with the first 2-3 generations and their family members first. That way you can build the foundation fast and spend time editing their life stories (which we should know for our parents and grandparents) in the narrative (what Steve describes as the form WT likes). The take over of your branches and export all ancestors and their family from one of your great grandparents. That should keep you busy for a while. You will have minimum one merge now with the grand grandparent you added with the first upload. Continue to do in these batches as it will allow for faster processing of your merge results and the post processing from your side (like taking Gedcom info out of the narrative and adding categories for regional places or WWII veterans etc). It's a great place with a lot of very helpful people. Eg I forgot to change the current last name of my married ancestors and still had their name at birth. Two people saw that error and corrected it for all my ancestors. WT has great privacy rules (check my profile below in the signature for my own detail and that of my half brother who is set for high privacy level). So export always all info and set the privacy for living accordingly to what the people want to show. All dead people's profile should be open so that others can add to them or do changes in case you have an error like me. Don't be afraid of this, you are notified of these changes and you can revert them with one click (like on Wikipedia) but it was never necessary. Try it out please as we need more connected profiles, especially from Europeans as WT is mostly used by U.S. genealogist. Best of all it's free, the permanent place where your research will be available to everyone beyond our depart from this planet. Sharing is caring they say, don't let all your results get lost when you die. Any questions? Happy to answer. It now has 10+ million profiles from almost 300k researchers. Regards, Andreas http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Basso-23 > On 24 Jul 2015, at 16:14, Steve via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've uploaded 2, so far. > > It takes a few days for them to be checked so that you can complete the import, and I have had no experience of having to merge anybody, yet. > > The down side of WikiTree is the amount of time involved in converting an uploaded person from this http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Maggs-37 to something more like this http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-22994 for 2 reasons > 1) getting the formatting the way the WikiTree community likes it > 2) doing that makes me re-visit every bit of information for that person in BK, Ancestry and Genes Reunited - I worked on Taylor-22994 for nearly 5 hours and found errors, omissions and new sources of information. > > I am not interested in the DNA testing side of things as I am not sure of the value of it, but I do like having information out on the web as it has led to connections with more than one distant relative. > > Regards > Steve > >> On 24/07/2015 08:42, Bill Webster via wrote: >> Have any readers here uploaded a BK gedcom to WikiTree? >> >> I'd be interested in your opinion of WikiTree and your experience of uploading and editing that upload - and how much information you decided to upload, or not. >> >> I have been to a couple of lectures recently where very experienced genealogists have uploaded just names, dates of bdms, and places of those bdms. >> >> Some have uploaded just their direct lines, no cousins etc. Others with strong interests in DNA have supplied more names, I think. >> >> Bill >> >> >> Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> . > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > 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