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

If Ancestry is exporting the data incorrectly, I don't think FHU can get them to fix it, how ever On 2 January 2014 03:36, Clive Blackaby <[email protected]>wrote: > 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) > FH has fixed this the best it can placing the age and relation information into a note. If you have a large number of these you could write a plugin to search the note fields for Age and move the data to the correct field in the event and if all your RESI events are census you could also update them to use the Census date again with a plugin. Personally I would not put County Jail into the PLAC field,but rather into the Address field, it does not help although that Ancestry are not exporting the information at all. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk