Anonymous (Peterson) W

Hi Karen,

Thanks for reaching out! I have done extensive research for the past five years keeping several trees on Ancestry, MyHeritage, my hard drive with Rootsmagic, and have contributed to the Family Search tree. I have created a sub-tree for wiki and have so many records attached as well as profile icons indicating for which people I have direct DNA proof. I can't find the instructions on loading my Gedcom for this tree. I created it through Ancestry and saved the link as a gedcom file on my computer. Now what? Oh gosh, if I have to start completely over on this site, I will just bow out. For privacy purposes, I have made my grandmother the lead person on my tree. Shall I continue, and if yes, then how is the best way?

Aha! I finally found the tiny little "gedcom" button. Loading it now.

Hi X,

I understand your privacy concerns, and starting with your grandmother is fine. If you do a profile for you, then you can anonymize your name by using Anonymous or an initial as a first name, and then set your privacy level to only show the information you are happy for other people to see, if you use the "red" level that will only show your decade of birth. Any profiles that you create for living people who are not active on WT will automatically have their privacy set to "unlisted" so the only people who would be able to see their information would be you and anyone you have added to a trusted list for that person. Each profile has their own trusted list.

If you go to the "My WikiTree" drop down menu, and choose the 8th box GEDCOMs that will take you to the page to upload it. It will not automatically populate your tree, it generated a GEDCOMpare report which you work through either accepting or rejecting the suggested matches, once you have gone through them all, the "add" button will appear so you can then create profiles for them.

One of our mentors created a tutorial for the GEDCOMpare process that others found very helpful. I hope that you will too.

I hope this helps, any problems, please let me know

Take care

Karen

Yes! Trying it out now. I at least got the gedcom successfully loaded. That's a big step in the right direction. I see 412 people to sift through. So I think I'm headed on the path you sent me.

Thanks for your help! The tutorial is great too.

HI A,

Glad you found it, and you are very welcome, I hope you get on ok with it, and anytime you need any help, please let me know

Take care

Karen

I decided to start with myself rather than with my grandmother because it would have been too complicated to explain a surname change and why a dead woman is typing.

Soooo, I took precautions with anonymity and I'm alright with that. I'm snagged at the second step though, creating a mother for myself. My mother is still living, and I've checked the box marked "blank for extra privacy" and "blank because still living" and yet I cannot save her profile because the date boxes remain empty and highlighted pink. ??

Hi,

You do need to add a birthdate for her, a profile does need this to be created, and where it asks for a date of death ticking the box blank because still living is the right one to do, this will set her as unlisted, and you and anyone added to a trusted list for her will be the only people to see anything that you add to her profile. Sometimes it can get a bit confused when both those boxes are ticked, technology is great but it can be a bit dumb at times 😊

I hope this helps, any problems, please let me know

Take care

Karen

Ok, I added Mom and Grandma. On Ancestry, my mother, her sister, and her brother and his son have all taken the DNA test and yes we are all closely connected as expected. So am I able to reflect this in my grandmother's profile? It says there are no known DNA relations, which is obviously incorrect. They're just all lined up behind me in Ancestry. As far as Wiki is concerned, that's just the way it will be until and unless another Wiki user posts their DNA involvement and our trees eventually connect somewhere around the common ancestor?

Also, I tried my best to add reference to my grandmother's birth certificate and the California Death Index via Ancestry. I certainly hope I typed it mostly correctly. Though I'm sure someone around there is rolling their eyes! I didn't know the correct order of information. The title, the year, the grouping of years...Do I use a semicolon or...? By the time I add my great grandmother, I may be deceased myself and someone else will be in charge of editing my life sources!

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I would say yes, and that's true, you will connect with others eventually, it took me a year before I was able to connect with anyone.

Have you tried using www.familysearch.org? They are a free site, with records from many countries, and each of their records has a copy and paste citation that you can add to your profiles as a source. You will need to register with them, and yes her source is fine, you can do then as inline sourcing have a look at this profile Edwin Richardson, go to the edit tab, and in the biography box, you can see from there how the inline citations look, I have put his birth eource in a separate paragraph just so people will know what it look like, I do send my g/granfathers profile to members who ask me for help with doing themand what a citation from familysearch looks like, If you look at the top of the biography box, there are 9 smaller boxes, the one with a tree in it, helps you link a person to another family member, and the one with a C in it will bring up the template for the inline sourcing.

You can use the : or a * before the source if you would rather not do the inline ones, once you have done a few you will be flying off adding people, I know it took me a few goes before I got to grips with it, and then I joined the England Project, and that was a great learning curve, so I used what I learnt to improve my profiles, I am still finding some that I missed when I started redoing them xxx