Who Do You Think You Are?

Combine multiple trees in Ancestry

When it comes to sharing your research with other genealogists, the GEDCOM file is king. This is the closest thing we have to a universal format, and any program or web service worth its salt will allow you to both import and export all or part of your tree as a GEDCOM file to share with others.

That said, GEDCOM isn’t a perfect format - not even GEDCOM 7.0, released in June 2021. - at least not directly.

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