Instructions for doing this are very vague! The best I can find states to go to the Import feature on the main menu and then upload your txt file there. Yet when I try it says file type txt is not recognized. What am I missing?
Can you provide more context. Which DNA related gramplet are you using?
- DNAMatches?
- DNASegmentMapGramplet?
What DNA testing have you done? autosomal, Y-DNA, or mtDNA?
With what company? Ancestry, 23andMe, GEDmatch, FTDNA, MyHeritage?
Some companies offer autosomal segment info, others do not.
I have both of those addons installed, I did my test with Ancestry.com and it is the autosomal if I am not mistaken. They send it to me in a .zip format and when I unzip I havd a .txt files.
Gramps insrucgions says to import the .txt file from the main screen but when I try it states it does not recognize that file format.
Tony
The Ancestry file you mention (zipped as dna-data-DATE.zip, unzipped as AncestryDNA.txt) is the raw data download. This is over 18MB typically, and is not used by Gramps.
Ancestry does not provide segment info. BUT - you can import the Ancestry zip file into other sites and get segment info (compared to other users of that site) to use in DNASegmentMapGramplet or DNAMatches.
For instance, upload the Ancestry zip file to GEDmatch (one-time action) and it will provide segment matches for other users of GEDmatch. MyHeritage will also do that. For each match, you create an Association in Gramps between you and the other match person. Then copy/paste the segment match info from GEDmatch into a Note of the Association. This is further described in the DNA Segment Map Gramplet wiki page.
I am not aware that Gramps instructions suggest importing this txt file. Can you tell me where this is so that I can fix the documentation.
Looked through the Gramps Web documentation on DNA data. No joy finding an ‘import’ there either.
Might this be related to the draft “Gramps DNA Data Model Core #2295” by @iand and the 6.1 FamilySearch integration?