Introduction
Many ƒh users upload copies of their family tree to web-based genealogy platforms, both for public visibility and convenient searching of the platform’s records. This usually starts with a GEDCOMGEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. It is a file format that most genealogical programs and online trees recognise. export from Family Historian, and if you want a detailed tree on Ancestry, complete with all your mediaWhen you add a picture, video, sound recording, document file etc into a Family Historian project, a Media record is created to represent that media item within the project; the Media record includes a link to the actual Media file., sourcesSource: "where information was found". This could be anything from an archive in a county records office, a book, or even a relative's recorded recollection. Citing your Sources helps to show how you reached a particular conclusion about an Individual., and other information, the Export GEDCOM File pluginPlugins are small programs that allow new features to be added without upgrading Family Historian itself; some plugins are written by Calico Pie and others are written by users. is ideal for this purpose.
However, there are additional challenges if you want to exploit Ancestry hints, as each new upload is regarded as a new tree. This resets hint generation, losing the record of which have already been reviewed. While updating the Ancestry tree manually is possible for relatively small trees with infrequent changes, this is impractical for larger trees that change frequently.
The only way to achieve automatic synchronization with Ancestry from Family Historian is via use of an alternative application as an intermediate, and upload from there. The TreeShare feature built into the full versions (but not the stripped down Essentials versions) of RootsMagic 7 and later provides this functionality, and is particularly suitable as Family Historian is able to read and (partially) write directly to RootsMagic files, enabling the two applications to be kept in sync much more reliably than would be possible relying solely on GEDCOM file export and import.
Process Overview
The synchronization process is driven by the Ancestry Synchronization plugin, now available in the Plugin StorePublished plugins can be downloaded from the Family Historian Plugin Store.. Full details are given in the plugin help.