I have copied lots of information from other peoples trees on Ancestry but never once have I downloaded any. I much prefer to check each individual name and confirm the accuracy. I also copied photographs from these trees except census images. It is by far better to download census images direct from Ancestry. Over the years I have found many errors on other peoples trees though it is time consuming check each name you do learn about individuals and can ensure the accuracy. Victor On 02/01/2014 3:36 AM, Clive Blackaby wrote: > Is there any way of converting the Gedcom files downloaded from Ancestry’s Family Tree program into standard Gedcom format which will load cleanly into Family Historian? > > Although the tree structure is largely correct, a lot of the Events, Attributes and Source Allocations are incorrect (as far as my understanding of Gedcom Standards is concerned) > > For example a Census record from 1901 > > 1 RESI Age: 42Relation to Head of House: Prisoner > 2 DATE 1901 > 2 PLAC St Albans, Hertfordshire, England > 2 SOUR @[email protected] > 3 PAGE Class: RG13; Piece: 1312; Folio: 158; Page: 3 > 3 _APID 1,7814::7664283 > > Bad enough that the Date is incomplete (year only) and the Place is incomplete (Not County Jail, St Albans, etc.), but the records are rejected anyway with this error message > > l.30 - INFO ONLY: Detected & fixed field format error (data moved to Note Field): "1 RESI Age: 42Relation to Head of House: Prisoner" > (because RESI does not take any qualifying data) > > Tried raising this with Ancestry, but their reply was basically very dismissive, Hoping FHUG will be more helpful :) > > Clive > > ------------------------------- > 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

Hi Victor I have my tree on Ancestry and I too would like to be able to download and merge into FH. I find all sorts of information on Ancestry and it is automatically included in my online tree and it is a real pain to have to enter it all individually in other programs apart from FTM which automatically syncs with the on-line tree. I don't want to download other peoples trees from Ancestry. Mike Fisher On 02/01/2014 08:09, Victor Markham wrote: > I have copied lots of information from other peoples trees on Ancestry > but never once have I downloaded any. I much prefer to check each > individual name and confirm the accuracy. I also copied photographs from > these trees except census images. It is by far better to download census > images direct from Ancestry. > > Over the years I have found many errors on other peoples trees though it > is time consuming check each name you do learn about individuals and can > ensure the accuracy. > > Victor > >