5.1.4 win10 Has anything been developed to help me save some time? I’m not a coder. I have a copy of my tree on Ancestry with 4400 persons. I have collected a lot of sources with these records. I downloaded a copy of the tree and created a new db in GRAMPS to take a look at how well the informatio…

The best solution I can give as a noncoder myself is using Power Query in Excel or the data import, import the different files (gedcom and XML) using this tools in Excel, that way you can define the column names. Create a CSV in the Gramps format and save it and import it to Gramps, most of your da…

In practical terms, no. Gramps has no bulk merge, and other programs that can do such things can do that only when persons have unique IDs that were exported to GEDCOM and came back unchanged. I did such a trick with Ancestry and PAF long ago, but since Gramps does not create such IDs, you can’t do …

Can you tell us a little more about this situation? Have you added sources on both sides, meaning on Ancestry, and in your tree in Gramps? And have you made other changes on both sides? Are both trees about the same size? And if you’d be forced to abandon one, which one would that be? I have a tree…

My main official copy of our Family Tree is in GRAMPS. I have uploaded the same tree to Ancestry and FindMyPast to help with the search of source records and other family members. Ancestry and FMP are fairly good at finding Census and other records, so you click YES and they are added. However, I …

After writing the previous reply, I did an export of the “residence” event from my Ancestry DB to a csv file. It is much more complicated than I thought with references to Place names also. Just too much mapping of the data elements would have to be done. So, thank for your help and ideas, but if …

[image] Davesellers: One DB has a 5 digit ID number and the Ancestry record is 13 digits. In many cases the names will not be exactly the same nor the DOB. I think the first job would be to create a mapping table, they you could filter on “residence” events and copy them from one DB to the othe…

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Merging data from two databases

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