How can I input a family tree to wikitree from Ancestry.com?

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How can I input a family tree to wikitree from Ancestery.com? I have over 6000 people on my tree and it would take forever to input them manually here. Does this website have an easier way to do that? Thanks!
in WikiTree Help by Jolie Anderson G2G Rookie (250 points)
retagged by Lynda Crackett

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Here is the information about the Gedcompare Process which you use to transfer trees from other sites. If you have overlapping trees on Ancestry then you only need to work with one of them. Please be careful not to create duplicate profiles if you are taking information from other sites.

Additionally, as a new WikiTreer, it's very useful to add a few profiles manually.  This will help you get used to the way we create biographies and cite sources.  Always remember that at WikiTree, we are collaborating on one tree . 

by Dorothy Barry G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
selected by Pamela Mays
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Export a GED file from Ancestry.

Then come back to Wikitree and upload it:

Top right, hover your mouse over "My Wikitree," then click GEDCOMs, then "Upload a GEDCOM."

by SJ Baty G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
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Apparently not. Uploading a GED, it will do that, but it won't give you a way to create profiles from the GED or import them. THe GED is just...there. Doing nothing. Wikitree blows so far.
by L Roberts G2G Crew (550 points)
You don't just import the information and have it auto-create profiles for everyone in the file.  You have to go through the compare process, to ensure that those people in your file don't already have existing profiles here on WikiTree.  Once the compare process is done, I believe add buttons should show up.

For better assistance regards a ged-file import, if the links already provided here don't help, I would suggest you ask your own, new question, instead of tagging onto one almost 5 years old.

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