# Import from Genbox Family History to Gramps 6.0.5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** gedcom, data-import, genbox\ **Created:** [October 25, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697 "2025-10-25T01:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/1 "2025-10-25T01:11:26Z")
Can’t import from Genbox Family History to Gramps. Error message says that the file is not a gedcom. Any suggestions for success. Am running Win 11 Thanks ---
**Author:** ![daleathan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/daleathan/32/1701_2.png) [@daleathan](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/daleathan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/2 "2025-10-25T01:44:34Z")
> [@Sobec](#): > > Error message says that the file is not a gedcom. Can you paste the full error message please and if possible make a small Genbox GEDCOM that shows the issue? Previous discussions about Genbox: - [Importing from Genbox - issues and best practice](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/importing-from-genbox-issues-and-best-practice/2058) - [Genbox basic question about default printer](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/genbox-basic-question-about-default-printer/4337) ---
**Author:** ![anon44746896](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@anon44746896](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/anon44746896)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/3 "2025-10-25T02:08:43Z")
What settings did you use in Genbox for exporting the GEDCOM can you provide a screenshot(s) so we can recreate this? ![2025-10-25 13_24_13-Genbox Family History -](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/7/76b25cacd025f880d445f8fc6a1e66596bc2c6ce.png) ![2025-10-25 13_24_01-Genbox Family History -](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/0/0cc1adcb52dbba80fb51dcb9ca7d5f70547de484.png) ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/4 "2025-10-25T04:11:07Z")
Here is the error message: could not open fileC;\users\sobec\nedrive\Gedcom Files\Labudz..Szkuta,GDB thanks (Attachment Labudz\_Szkuta.GDB is missing) ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/5 "2025-10-25T04:27:44Z")
Here is the error message: could not open fileC;\users\sobec\nedrive\Gedcom Files\Labudz..Szkuta,GDB thanks (Actual filename is `Labudz_Szkuta.GDB`) ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/6 "2025-10-25T05:13:54Z")
It appears that you are trying to import the wrong file. A file ending in `.GDB` would be the native file format for Genbox… purportedly using the Microsoft Access database backend. The exported GEDCOM file will have a `.ged` or `.GED` file extension. And it will be located wherever you chose during the export operation. ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:22am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/7 "2025-10-25T05:22:57Z")
The Perplexity ai reports that the GEDCOM export dialects for Genbox are: 1. GEDCOM 5.5 (Standard) 2. GEDCOM 5.5 (ANSI encoding) 3. **GEDCOM 5.5 (UTF-8 encoding)** 4. GEDCOM 5.5 (Unicode/UTF-16 encoding) 5. Legacy Family Tree format 6. Family Tree Maker format 7. PAF (Personal Ancestral File) format 8. The Master Genealogist (TMG) format 9. Ancestry.com-compatible format 10. Minimal/Custom GEDCOM for archival or transfer ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/8 "2025-10-25T05:37:15Z")
Unfortunately the Genbox Family History software stores the data as Genbox.GDB. I am not sure what format this program uses. It hasn’t been updated for many years, hence my wish to import into Gramps ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/9 "2025-10-25T05:40:58Z")
Unfortunately the Genbox Family history stores the files as gedcom.GDB but what format is used is the question ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/10 "2025-10-25T05:44:12Z")
When I attempt to import into Gramps it obviously doesn’t recognise the correct format ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/11 "2025-10-25T05:48:00Z")
The other process to try is to convert to another format recognisable by Gramps ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/12 "2025-10-25T06:06:17Z")
Genbox has export (format convert) options. Their **GEDCOM 5.5 (UTF-8 encoding)** export is the closest to the GEDCOM 5.5.1 standard. GEDCOM 5.5.1 has been the typical Genealogical data exchange format since a draft was published in October of 1999. And `GEDCOM 5.5.1` import is supported by Gramps. The `UTF-8 encoding` means that it supports letters beyond the ANSI American standard… like ç, ü, æ, ê and non-Latin alphabets. ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/13 "2025-10-25T06:18:11Z")
Great will give it a go ---
**Author:** ![gramps-project](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/gramps-project/32/398_2.png) [@gramps-project](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/gramps-project)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/14 "2025-10-25T11:00:21Z")
Listed on October 25, 2025, 11:00am UTC ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/15 "2025-10-25T21:29:32Z")
For future reference, the Discourse forum’s AI found it very concerning that a newly registered user tried to post an attachment, hotlinks to an external domain and several postings by eMail. That raised multiple SPAMming red flags. This resulted in your thread being quarantined briefly. ---
**Author:** ![Sobec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sobec](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Sobec)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/16 "2025-10-25T23:00:36Z")
I apologise, I was requested to upload a file ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/17 "2025-10-25T23:52:11Z")
There was no blame intended. Just wanted you to know because there were delays and your thread disappeared into quarantine. So this was just so you knew how weirdness happened … and that it was not anything personal. ---
**Author:** ![Nick-Hall](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/nick-hall/32/95_2.png) [@Nick-Hall](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Nick-Hall)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/18 "2025-10-26T10:53:54Z")
> [@emyoulation](#): > > A file ending in `.GDB` would be the native file format for Genbox… purportedly using the Microsoft Access database backend. It may be possible to open the `.GDB` file using Excel or Access. The `.GDB` extension is also not whitelisted for this forum, hence the upload problem. ---
**Author:** ![stuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@stuck](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/stuck)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/19 "2025-10-26T13:50:16Z")
> [@Nick-Hall](#): > > The `.GDB` extension is also not whitelisted for this forum, hence the upload problem. Presumably therefore the workaround is to ZIP it and upload the resulting .zip file? ---
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697/20 "2025-10-26T14:02:02Z")
ZIPping would have been one option. But fortunately, just discovering the file was a `.gdf` file was sufficient to diagnose the issue… that either: 1. the Genbox GEDCOM export had not been done, or 2. the exported `.ged` file was not selected for import into Gramps. So we’re probably past the need to upload. Although the GEDCOM may have some dialect (custom tag) issues to resolve. [Next page](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-genbox-family-history-to-gramps-6-0-5/8697.md?page=2)