Genealogy Chat

I have a nice tree in gr and I have just subscribed to ancestry can I add the tree there or do I have to make a new 1.

You can export your tree from GR. It arrives as a text file with a .ged extension, as an attachment sent to your registered email address. That file can be imported directly to Ancestry if you wish. Make sure your tree doesn't include any living people in any identifiable form unless you hold the express permission of each and every one. (And that goes for your GR tree too, whether or not you publish it more widely).

I wouldn't use GR to build a tree anyway. My wife's parents were cousins: so as soon as her second generation, I am confonted with a perfectly normal relationship (marriage + common grandparent) that GR can't handle. A better approach would be to acquire your own family history software: PAF downloadable free from LDS website is what I have always used, but there are plenty of alternatives. FTM seems to be the most popular commercially available option, but it's nothing special. If you import a GR tree into your own software, you can tidy up (or remove) all the Unknowns, merge the multiple instances of married cousins, and then export the file back to GR, and to Ancestry or anywhere else. GR won't let you enter a relative at all, without a date and place of birth (one reason why there are so many living relations online, contrary to GR rules), but if you import a tree, GR will quite happily have living persons with no name (Called 'Living', or whatever you want) and more usefully, with no dates/places. Married cousin relationships survive, with the only caveat that if you look at the tree view, you can get lines that cross or go through other lines: an inevitable consequence of the intermarried + blood relationships.

Thanks every1 I have managed to this and it turned out ok. Kaz