To close bourbon.ged, click on the red cross on the toolbar when any Bourbon window is active. Let's close it and import your genealogy now. Otherwise, you will have no choice but to re-enter any missing information once the genealogy is loaded in Ancestris.ĭuring the guided tour, you have seen the Bourbon genealogy. If some data is missing from the original file, you will have to make sure you have not omitted some export settings. You will have to check if some anomalies remain, where the data has been placed and potentially make some fixes manually. Ancestris cannot correct all anomalies, but will most certainly eliminate most of them. Ancestris will automatically detect what software created the file and apply some necessary corrections if it knows this software. From Ancestris, open the resulting Gedcom file (Menu/File/Open). Any good genealogy software should be able to do this, with the variations mentioned above. This means the software has to convert the original data to the Gedcom standard, creating a file with the extension. From your current software, export ALL your data in Gedcom format. As a result, the migration to Ancestris takes three steps: And because we know how these software organize their information, we have built import mechanisms which put the data back to where the Gedcom standard expects it. Most of the software we know fall into the first category. Then, you would potentially have to re-enter some of your data in Ancestris. This is quite rare, but in this case, Ancestris will not be able to read the file, and you will have to fix the gedcom file manually. In the worse case scenario, your current software will not be able to export some important data or even worse will not respect enough the Gedcom format which will generate reading errors later, preventing the file to be loaded. However, genealogy software may generate 3 types of anomalies: Generally, your current software will be able to export most of your data in the Gedcom format. That is why Ancestris chose to be 100 % compliant with the Gedcom standard! You might face two different situations when migrating: This can result in data loss during exchanges between genealogists. However, many programs do not scrupulously comply with this Gedcom standard: they make specific choices with the way they organize their data, which makes it later difficult to convert it to the Gedcom format. So transferring your data could be very easy if your current software did its job perfectly. This format is an international standard for information exchange between genealogy software. On the other hand, recovering all your data at the same place could be much harder to manage depending on your current software.Īncestris is here to make it easy for you.Īncestris is able to read any file in Gedcom format. After a few hours using it, you'll get used to it and that is it! It is just a matter of getting used to Ancestris and its interface : 'What is the name of that action?', 'Where is that thing again ?', 'How do we do that?', and so on. Recover all your data during the transition process.Forego the software you are currently using and learn another one.
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