Want to correct my tree without losing data so how do I do it.

Question

Need to make sure I do an import correctly.  I'd like some help just in case before I correct my tree and lose my data!

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Is that a typo in the title. Do you want to correct your tree or connect it?

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Actually it would be both but I think that I have the correct answers from the blog page but I can also tell I am going to have a lot more questions so that this stays connected to the person it's tagged to.  My info comes from my grandmothers, Great Grand Aunt, and Cousins research and my own, the family Bible, Public Records, the NSDAR, the NSSAR, and the SUV as well as Ancestry.com.

Answer 1

Hi Bill, I see that you have 173 people in the gedcom you're planning to import. It may not sound like a lot, but it really is. I'd recommend that you pare it down a bit, and only add maybe 20-30 people in your first gedcom import. Each one will need to have the biography edited, as the gedcom data comes into WikiTree looking a bit clumsy (even if it's in great order in your tree to begin with!). I also see in your gedcom that there are potentially a lot of people who are already here on WikiTree. You should choose to not import any of them so that you don't create duplicates on WikiTree. But that will also cause you another problem: for each of them you will need to go back and reattach family members from the tree you imported to them. Many of us who have been working on WikiTree for several years have found that in the long run it's actually less total work to input our trees manually.

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And, now you know what my next three or five questions will probably be. I believe that fixing more than 5 - 10 people at a time is a nightmare so I will be loading only 1 generation on one side at a time so maybe that will keep me from over-running another dear persons research.  There are way too many matches once I get back four generations.  Thanks for the read to all!  Kay thank you for the last statement. I think I may be doing that one!