FROM THE WORLD OF TECH
Importing GEDCOM to online family trees
Last month we looked at the GEDCOM standard and how it can facilitate the transfer of research data between family tree packages. In the same way, the online family trees such as those at Ancestry or Findmypast, do accept GEDCOM files. These online trees do have a bad press, often rightly so, as it’s easy to include incorrect data, which weakens the quality of search results for the rest of us.