DNA Help: I want to create a .ged file for export from Wiki

Question

I would like to be able to create a .ged for export from my Wiki ancestry file.  Can anyone point me in the right direction for that?

Comments

George, can you make it an "answer" instead of a "reply" so we can select it as the best one?

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Andreas

Thank you! I don’t think that is possible.

George

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George,  Could you just create an answer or has that option been taken away because you replied.  Answer and then Hide replay?

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Maybe we need to ask Patricia for clarification since the question and its tags included "DNA"? Because an exported GEDCOM won't do much in that arena. Any profiles containing text specifically added to the biography box--like a WikiTree DNA confirmation statement--will come over in the GEDCOM in the "notes" field for an individual, but the GEDCOM format does nothing to indicate DNA relationships (as we see in the "DNA Connections" list in the right-hand column), "confirmed with DNA" parental status, or to preserve the DNA test information entered by an individual.

If Patricia is specifically wanting to know about capturing that, then a GEDCOM won't help.

As an aside, this is another drawback to using FreeSpace pages for storing source citations or to address DNA findings specific to an individual or his/her line. If those data are not in the biography itself, they aren't included in an extracted GEDCOM. Of note, too, is that any links included in a biography using templated styles (e.g., {{Ancestry Record|12345|67890}},  {{Wikidata|Q3044}}, {{FindAGrave|1234|sameas=no}}, or internal links to items like other profiles a la [[Smith-123|John Smith]]) don't come through, either. What is exported is the exact mark-up text as entered in the profile...reinforcing the need for full bibliographic-style source citations so that items can be located without links.

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Andreas and David

I changed my comment to an answer as you have requested.

Thank you for wanting to highlight my answer.

Merry Christmas!

George

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Dear Edison,

Thank you for your comment on this .ged informational request thread.  I perhaps am not asking the right question for the answer I seek, as you suggest.

In trying to sort out how to annotate DNA connections as source material for family connections, I have become a bit frustrated. My originally thought and reason for this query was that if I added my wikitree to GEDMatch that it would improve or prove something more to what I am getting now.  

I have a full tree on ancestry.com (20k+), but it would be too unwieldy to upload to GEDMatch.  

To try for more clarity... for example...If you go to my profile page, Cunningham-13288, It shows only one dna match.  My father, Cunningham-12818, has 2 dna matches, myself and one other person.  My paternal grandmother, Price-19588, has a bunch of matches.  Now I know that neither of these people had dna tests done, so I do find it a bit confusing.  

Also, when I go out to the one-to-many matches on GEDMatch and look at the wiki specific references - I believe that those people should also show up under my DNA Connections on my profile page, yet they do not.  

I confess to being a nube in this arena, so hope that I am making a small modicum of sense.

Patricia

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Patricia, I think you've misunderstood what it means when you see the name of another person on your father's profile or your grandmother's profile in the "DNA Connections" section. They are not "dna matches". If you read the statement carefully, it says that the autosomal test taker will "likely" share some DNA with the profiled person. Because you are also related to the profiled person you may share some DNA with those test takers. 

Most of the DNA test takers mentioned on your grandmother's profile took 23andMe tests. One of them displays a GEDmatch ID. Have you compared yourself to Sally (King) Gill on GEDmatch? You can see how Sally is related to your grandmother by clicking on the small green icon to the right of her name (with two arrows pointing to one another). WikiTree says they're 2C2R. 

Because Sally is more distantly related to you than 3C, her DNA test information is not displayed on your profile. If you were 3C or closer you would very likely share DNA. Checking the WikiTree Relationship Finder I see that you and Sally are 4C. At that distance, it's possible that you and she don't share any DNA. 

Answer 1

Go to this page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Exporting_a_GEDCOM and scroll down to the bottom, and follow the link there.