You want to use GEDmatch but you need to upload a family
tree that has living people in it. How do you go about
privatizing your information in that GEDcom file? Today, we're
going to walk you through that process. Now, the first thing
you need to do is you need to download a GEDcom file to your
computer from the platforms that you are using. So, FamilySearch,
Ancestry, Heritage, Geni, whichever platform
you're using, you need to download your family tree. Now,
there are a lot of problems with this. One of the problems
with downloading your GEDcom file is that one, every
platform does it different. And two, those processes could
change. And I want to make sure this video is applicable
whenever you're watching it. Now, you'll be able to check
the Show Notes for a link to all of the different websites
that you're likely going to use. If I miss one, be sure to
put that in the comments. You'll find the Show Notes over
on our website, FamilyHistoryFanatics.com but check the
description box for a direct link to the Show Notes. But I've
always thought that a platform, like RootsMagic, helps you the
best. Now, if you're using MyHeritage, there is the MyHeritage
Tree Builder platform where you can use that to
download your tree MyHeritage. You can also use Family Tree
Maker to do a similar step. And I think there's some other
softwares where you can download your trees from
different platforms. I'm going to teach RootsMagic
because it's kind of my favorite. So, I'm going to
start by downloading from an online tree and I'm going to
get my tree from Ancestry. I'm going to choose my destination.
And now, I'm going to name my file. Now, I keep going through
the process. I'm not going to turn on web hints because this
is just a private tree for GEDmatch. and I'm going to click
okay. Aign in to Ancestry and then I'm going to choose the
tree that I'm going to download. so the Geiszler/Brown tree. And
unfortunately I cannot turn off downloading the media. So here
we go. This is going to take a while so I'll see you when it's
finished. So once your family tree is downloaded the next
thing you need to do is to privatize the information. Now
you can let RootsMagic do the privatization or you can do it
manually. The first way is to just let RootsMagic do it. I'm
going to click on file. And I'm going to click export data. I'm
going to click on the GEDcom file option, which is the third
one down. And then I'm going to select the destination of this
new GEDcom file. I'm going to give it a name. You can have it
be the same name as the file you're doing. I went ahead and
added the next one. And now this is the location where RootsMagic
can do the work for you. So, I'm going to unselect
sources, because GEDmatch doesn't need it. I don't need
address, multimedia links. I don't need these extra
formatting. I need something super simple. I don't even need
the notes. It's going to bring in birth, marriage, and death
facts and any of those type of details. I'm going to privatize
the living. And then I have some additional options. So, I can
click full name or have it say "living." Full date and place.
Don't print any facts, date only, place only, year only,
year and place. I'm going to go ahead and just do "Place only"
for the living. But notice you can also do "don't put any facts"
at all. Choose the one that's that you're most comfortable
with that your family members are most comfortable with. So,
I'm going to do "place only" and then, I'm going to click okay.
And so now, RootsMagic made that file. If I go over to my
file folder, it's right there and it's ready to be uploaded
to GEDmatch. The next thing I can do is I can manually go to
the profiles of the living people and I can convert them
and privatize the information. So, if I click on myself, I can
say living or private as my name. I think living is the
more standard but you can decide for yourself. Click okay.
And then you can change birth years for yourself. So maybe you
want to just be in total control of where people were
born and what details you have. Click okay. And then when I have
found all the living people I can go ahead and export. Now how
are you going to find the living people quickly? So in
order to find everybody who's considered living in this
database. I can click on search. you will normally be on
this view. this won't help you get to the living. You need to
click on "search advance." Click on "find." And now we're going to
scroll down to living. And it's going to say flag. And you want
it to be true. And then you're going to have a list of people
who are living on the side. Now using this list right here I
can click on each person and go to their profile. I just click
on it like this blue highlighted. Then I'll click on
"go to profile." And then I will be taking to that same form
that I showed you with myself and Andy. And you can then go in
and type living and privatize the information you want there.
So you can manually do it or you can use the RootsMagic Auto
Generation of the Living Facts. So, that takes care of how to
privatize your files to a GEDcom file. Now, I'm going to
turn the time over to Andy and he's going to walk you through
the process of uploading your GEDcom file to GEDMatch. So,
we've logged into GEDmatch and we're going to scroll down
until we find the GEDcom tools, also called Family Trees. And
what we want to do is. We want to click on this first
one "Upload a GEDcom fast." Now, if this one doesn't work, then
you can use the other. but I've never had this first one not
work. So, we click on that. We come to the next screen. Now,
if you're doing this for the first time, you can always
click on the "please help." In my case, I'm just going to click
"no thanks" because I already know what to do. There are a
few things to be able to put on here. First off, you want to
name this GEDcom. Now, this can be whatever you want. I'm just
going to call it Devon's practice. Next is, it wants you
to select what kit number you have for the primary person on
the GEDcom Now, this is something you can change later.
We're going to check it to make sure that it gets to the
right person. But I am going to select Devon's. And that's one
of hers, I believe. Alright. Now, if all four of your
grandparents are from the same place, you can actually put
that in here. In this case, all four of her grandparents are
not from the same place. So, I'm not going to worry about
that. Next is an important question. Do you agree that one
of the following is true for every person in the GEDcom you
are uploading? You have the authority to show the person,
you believe the person is not alive, you have privatized the
entry by changing the name to living or similar. Now Devon has
created this GEDcom with the the privatization settings on
so all of the living people that are denoted in the GEDcom
file should not have their names on there. So I'm just
going to click "yes." Now it wants me to choose the GEDcom file. I
click on "choose the file." And on here I'm going to find and
select this GEDcom file. Now it has it selected I'm ready to
upload. Depending on how big of a file you have it may take
some time to actually upload everything. In this case this
file doesn't look like it is that big. After it's uploaded it
it's given me the number of the GEDcom file and it tells me who
the very first person is, which in this case is living. And that
should be Devon. So let's go to this file take a look at it and
determine whether or not we've got the right person attached.
So clicking on this link I have this living person, who has a
father and a mother and those are Devon's parents. And you can
see here that she's listed as living, her husband is listed as
living. Her children are listed as living. So it has privatized
everything. And we can see that this kit is what is attached
here. Now if we want to unlink this. If we attach the wrong one
then we can always unlink this and put in the correct kit
number. So now you're ready to go and see where this is
attached. We do either the pedigree or the descendants
view. The pedigree is going to go to the tree. You can see
there's little DNA icon next to this living person. If you
happen to have other people that have DNA attached in here,
then they would have a little DNA icon next to them as well.
Now, if you'd like to learn more about GEDcoms, you can
click this video up top. Or if you'd like to learn something
else about genealogy, then, click this video down below.
Yay. Bye, guys.