Having your trees online in multiple places helps you take advantage of
hinting as well as collaboration but how do you keep your information in sync
between Family Search and Ancestry Howdy I'm Devon Noel Lee and this is Family
History Fanatics where we teach you how to climb your family tree and have a
whole lot of fun along the way one of the things we love to do here on Family
History Fanatics is the answer viewer questions how do you transfer your
information between Ancestry and FamilySearch
I'm a relative newcomer to
this I do have some information stored on Ancestry but I want to transfer it to
Famil Search I saw your video on Gedcoms by the way that the link to that
video will pop up in the info cards or you can find it in the description
section of this video but continuing on and she saw the video on Gedcoms and
to not try to upload them to family search but I can't seem to figure out
how to transfer only a few names at a time between Ancestry and FamilySearch
I do the whole I can do the whole tree but need help only doing part of it
any ideas all right Terry this is your lucky day I'm still excited to ask
this question but to get people up to speed as far as how do you transfer a
bulk tree and then individuals let me tell you a couple of the suggestions to
get everybody on the same page and answer your question along the way so
essentially what Terry and many of you want to do is transfer your information
from FamilySearch in Ancestry and for the most part there's no real easy way
to do this unless you happen to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints there is a way to transfer information between FamilySearch
and Ancestry.com where do you go if you happen to be a member of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to get access to Ancestry.com
and then how do you transfer your information I'll show you that if you
happen to not be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints go
ahead and skip forward a little bit and get to the answer to your question so if
you are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints you will
want to go to the familysearch.org partner access page now I'll put a link
in the description as well as the pind comment of this video be advised the
link might change which is why I'm not talking about it now but you should
always be able to Google search FamilySearch partner access and come to a page
very similar to like this you would create your personal accounts with
Ancestry after signing in click the join for free button again it wants me to
sign in and in this case I am do not have this account synced with my church
membership number and so it tells me I'm don't qualify for that access if I did
then I would go through this process and it will walk me through step by step how
to set up my account if you have already paid for a membership of ancestry.com
might I suggest you wait towards the end of your membership expiration time
period before you turn this on now what happens when you get into family search
and you have that partner access you find that there's this logo right here
when you get this partner access what you will see here on a profile page for
an individual I'm gonna zoom in weigh in you're gonna see that little family tree
icon that family tree icon doesn't mean that you're going to automatically think
I'm zooming out so we can actually utilize this but you will be able to
easily transfer your information so I'm going to click on that button it says
your operation has expired it means I'm not signed in to FamilySearch I'll go
ahead and sign in with my linked account and then
this search will search its database used on the input from Ancestry.com and
look for the find best matches in this case they think they found a match and
that looks accurate I've got the Lucille Virginia Davis with is actually Lucille
Bracken Davis but all of her names is a story for another video maybe so if I do
like this then I can go ahead and connect the person if that person wasn't
accurate I can actually transfer information that say I had a say on my
Ancestry tree and I want to put them into the FamilySearch then I can press
the FamilySearch button and go through the dialog if Ancestry and
FamilySearch can't find my hint like it did here then I can go over to FamilySearch
find the person ID and type it in here there's lots of ways to transfer
your information so I'm going to connect this person and now you see that blue
checkmark right next to the name I'm going to zoom back out and once you see
that blue checkmark it doesn't mean that their kin they can have transferred
information yet it unless you're adding it to FamilySearch for the first time
but what it does mean is that there they are linked and and now it's time for you
to compare information so I can go ahead and compare the information and then I
can transfer things either way I can transfer the name. the gender,
the birthday place so far everything matches except for this burial so I'm
going to transfer the burial date of 1977 when you go from Ancestry to
FamilySearch you're going to have to type in a reason statement because that's what
FamilySearch requires so when I'm finished I can transfer not only this
date over but my reason statement of why I believe this day to be now that's not
my best reason statement ever but you get the idea now if I wanted to bring
information over to and from the FamilySearch to Ancestry
such as this sources marriage source all I have to do is click this button and it
will be added to the tree and notice when it goes from FamilySearch to
Ancestry, Ancestry doesn't ask you about reason statements so as I scroll through
I can decide that I want to keep this and then I want to transfer that so on
and so forth the sources won't ask you for a reason statement but the cons
hands up at the top if you change any of this content you will find that you have
to transfer added reason statement as why you're gonna put the information
over that way so scrolling down I can go ahead and press Save Changes now after
I've done that press Save Changes. Ancestry brings me back to this page I
can click on view this person on family search and as long as I'm logged in I
will be able to see that now he has a burial date of 1977 if we go to edit
we're gonna then say see that recent statement that I created so that's the
easy way you have to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ for that I kind
functionality to kick into gear if you are - not a member and you had an except
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and you haven't turned on that
partner access account you won't see that so back to those of you who aren't
a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or if you paid for a
more robust ancestry description than when the partner access account provides
for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints how do you
get your information between FamilySearch in Ancestry.com in the past there
was a way to transfer information between FamilySearch and Ancestry and
back and again and that was using gedcom files. Well, FamilySearch didn't want
information coming into their tree because they want you to articulate why
you're making a change every single time you do it also is a one tree platform
unlike Ancestry where everybody can have their own personal tree FamilySearch is
one tree and the more they allow people to put their in
nation into FamilySearch in bulk the more challenging and messy the one tree
platform became the FamilySearch turned off the ability to upload gedcom
files to families search it also within the last several years turned off the
ability for you to download a gedcom file fro FamilySearch so that you can
use it on other platforms so you can't transfer bolt trees and you can't
transfer little bits of information if you're not a member of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints what's the person who do well that's
when third party platforms come into being if I want to transfer a little
bits update data between the two sites I need to use a third party genealogy
software program one of the ones that i use right now is RootsMagic
RootsMagic has the ability to connect with both Ancestry and FamilySearch
and i can chance for my information both ways so i can take data that I have in
Ancestry pass it through RootsMagic and then I
can pass it up to FamilySearch but the great thing about RootsMagic is I can
go the other way I can go from family searched through RootsMagic to Ancestry
as well so now I'm going to open up RootsMagic and I'm going to show you
how you can get your information from FamilySearch and take it to
Ancestry.com so what I'm going to do is close the introductory popup message
that we get and I'm going to create a new file when i press create a new file
I'll give it a name turn on FamilySearch tree support hints
you can also enable web hints but I like to have match to FamilySearch hints
when found there's some other choices you could choose but we're going to keep
skipping on ahead now that I have RootsMagic open I'm going to come up
here to this little icon that looks very similar to FamilySearch so we're going
to click on that and then we're going to go
imports when we get to import we can do ourselves and then we can walk through
the process it will ask us all the information because I've signed it into
family search as myself or I can start a tree anywhere in FamilySearch so but to
do that I'm going to have to get that PID number where are you going to get
that well here I am over here on FamilySearch and I want to
get the tree for Lewis Sherman and here is that PID if I click on it a little
copy idea pops up click on that again you don't have to do the drill see so
awesome then I'm gonna go back to RootsMagic and
then I'm going to control paste or right click paste the PID right there and then I
can go up to know 10-12 generations back don't do any more than 10 really your
tree is going to be too crazy and then you can throw in some descendants if you
want as well start the import and then eventually you'll have a tree for your
use now for the purpose of this video I did a very small tree has about 25
people 35 people in it but I can go ahead and close this importer and now I
have the tree for Sherman Lewis Brown so how do I get it from RootsMagic to
Ancestry.com well that's easy I can click on Ancestry a little icon right
here and then I go in to sign in once I have signed in all I have to do is
upload and connect a new tree I can give the tree a name call it brown test so I
know to delete it later it'll upload all of this stuff now how do you transfer a
little bits of information between FamilySearch and be obsessed you're
using RootsMagic to find the ancestor that you know that you changed and you
can click on that little blue icon and have this Tramp screen pop up so on ants
a FamilySearch there was a death date for
1985 you can add it as new will replace on Ruth
it's magic and then just like that that information has changed let's say you
want to also and you discovered a new relative then you can add this person to
RootsMagic as a new father of James Anthony and now you have that person
transferred you can also use the screen to go back the other way
remember when you add new information to families search you will be stopped to
ask right here in RootsMagic why are you making that change that's
the pattern on FamilySearch you always have to explain your changes and
RootsMagic does provide that space for you to type in that information so let's
say you wanted to now transfer information for our Edward Anthony up to
Ancestry will come up here to this icon for your Ancestry tree share icon what's
really nice about this tree share it will look for all of the changes for you
rapidly and put it into one little transfer a file so I'm on R Anthony
and excuse me our Edwin Anthony so confusing when this
thing names could be a first name or last name so we found on Family Search a
new death date that we don't have on Ancestry and that's why it's highlighted
in yellow and change for you to investigate so I can go ahead and add
new events on ancestry and there you go remember Ancestry doesn't ask you for
recent statements fast transfer the changes have not been
applied just yet until you hit this accept changes button but notice over
here on Ancestry there's a new bit of information there's an arrival date he
did a little bit of traveling so I can add that a new event to RootsMagic or
maybe it was focused and I can delete it I'm going to add a new event and look we
could also add a new father when I've made all the changes I went for Edwin I
pressed accept changes and now all of these changes will go to Ancestry and I
can reverse the process as well remember we have
that little the arrival information I can come back here to this icon for
Edwin and then I can transfer this information over the FamilySearch but
I'd have to type in type in my recent statement and as you know I'm doing a
little bit of gibberish right now once I like it a go ahead and press ok it will
update ancestry so that's how you can pass information between Ancestry and
FamilySearch you're going to have to use a third party platform now which
programs accomplished its goals RootsMagic, Ancestral Quest and Legacy
Tree passive formation between those two platforms if you use
Family Tree Maker as of this recording it doesn't transfer information to
FamilySearch so that's one of the reasons why I like groups magic is
because I can transfer information between FamilySearch and Ancestry I
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