# GEDCOM Import Errors
**URL:** https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [March 29, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461 "2023-03-29T03:13:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@DoctorDan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DoctorDan)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/1 "2023-03-29T03:13:52Z")
(Please [include your Gramps version](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:Prerequisites_Checker_Gramplet) and Operating System)
Win 11, 5.1.5
I just imported a GEDCOM from MyHeritage and got 125 errors like this:
Line ignored as not understood
Unknown Tag
Skipped subordinate line
It would be real helpful if the error output included the actual lines that it didn’t like.
The current output is absolutely no help in trying to know what to fix.
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### Author:  [@anon9092048](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/anon9092048)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/2 "2023-03-29T04:02:46Z")
Best answer I could find here is [this](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/media-file-error-in-ancestral-report/2658/5) also you might find the[following section of the user manual helpful](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Manage_Family_Trees#GEDCOM_import_report_dialog)
> It would be real helpful if the error output included the actual lines that it didn’t like.
> The current output is absolutely no help in trying to know what to fix.
Check your notes as described above and pastes some of the errors to help determine if the MyHeritage GEDCOM you have is using unsupported [Custom GEDCOM tags](http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00522/0/GEDCOM-Tags-Custom-Tags-in-Other-Programs.html) you may be able to got back and recreate your GEDCOM at MyHeritage without them if you adjust the setting if availble?
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### Author:  [@DoctorDan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DoctorDan)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/3 "2023-03-29T04:26:19Z")
Thanks for the great info. I will try what you suggested
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### Author:  [@ennoborg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ennoborg)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/4 "2023-03-29T13:10:01Z")
@DoctorDan when I look through these errors after import of a test tree that I recently made on My Heritage, I find that most of them contain reference numbers that may have a meaning for My Heritage, but are quite meaningless for Gramps. And for those, I think that it’s OK that we ignore them. And the same may be true for others that contain all sorts of flags and qualifiers that have no meaning for Gramps either.
You may however find names and other pieces of text for which you think that they are relevant. And if you find those, it helps a lot if you can show those here, so that we can all look at them, and think about a better way of handling those.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@DoctorDan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DoctorDan)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/5 "2023-03-29T18:30:41Z")
Hi,
Once I knew about the notes, I went through them and all of the “errors” turned out to be irrelevant. There wasn’t a single error of any significance. They were mostly \_UPD lines and a few about the MyHeritage web site.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@ennoborg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ennoborg)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/6 "2023-03-31T19:55:22Z")
> [@DoctorDan](#):
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> There wasn’t a single error of any significance. They were mostly \_UPD lines and a few about the MyHeritage web site.
OK, thanks for checking.
With my test file, I also found \_UPD events after import. Did you get those too? You can easily see them by sorting the events view by type, and they’re quite easy to delete too, if you want.
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### Author:  [@DoctorDan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DoctorDan)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/7 "2023-03-31T20:07:08Z")
Yes, they were almost all \_UPD. I just ignored them
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### Author:  [@ennoborg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ennoborg)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/8 "2023-03-31T21:09:19Z")
OK, good to know. I asked, because some of these tags may be considered so irrelevant, that it might be a better option to let the importer ignore them all the way, and maybe not even mention them in the logs.
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### Author:  [@DoctorDan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DoctorDan)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/9 "2023-03-31T21:24:04Z")
That’s a great thought. Maybe just a one-line text field for a semi-colon delimited list of tags to ignore?
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### Author:  [@ennoborg](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ennoborg)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/10 "2023-04-01T19:02:51Z")
You mean like in an INI file, or as part of the import dialog?
As a developer, I prefer to fix things in code, so that I don’t have to design a user interface, but that’s my problem,
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### Author:  [@DoctorDan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DoctorDan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/11 "2023-04-01T19:15:00Z")
Both? in dialog, show existing from ini. If edited in dialog, update ini.
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### Author:  [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gedcom-import-errors/3461/12 "2023-05-01T19:15:17Z")
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