MyHeritage (website)
Family tree → Manage trees → Export to GEDCOM. The file arrives by email or downloads right away.
Already keep a tree in another program? Upload its file – people, relations, dates and places fall into place. From then on the tree lives in Roots: relatives add to it from their phones, and Family Copilot records the stories of the elders.
You see how many people and families it holds, which years, and which program made it. Nothing is written to the tree yet.
The tree is built starting from you. If you are not in the file, pick the relative it should start from.
People with the same names and years are recognised. Where we are not sure, we ask: one person or two.
People, relations, dates and places take their places. Open the tree right away – in the browser or in the app.
Almost every genealogy program has an “Export to GEDCOM” item. The result is a file with the .ged extension – that is what you upload. The exact menu names may differ in your version.
Family tree → Manage trees → Export to GEDCOM. The file arrives by email or downloads right away.
File → Export to GEDCOM. If asked for an encoding, choose UTF-8.
Family Trees → Export → GEDCOM format.
Trees → Tree Settings → Export tree. Upload the downloaded .zip archive as it is – we take the file out ourselves.
File → Export → GEDCOM. Keep the default options.
FamilySearch does not export a tree as GEDCOM. Build your branch in a desktop program first, then export from there.
Look for “Export” or “Save as GEDCOM” in the file menu or the tree settings.
Ask the chat: “Save this tree as a GEDCOM 5.5.1 file with a HEAD header and a TRLR trailer”. Download the .ged file and upload it here.
A GEDCOM file usually does not carry photos and documents – only names, relations, dates, places and event records. If the export has links to portraits (Familio and MyHeritage do this), we fetch them ourselves. The rest of the photos you add after the import – from your phone or on the website.
Yes, uploading needs a free Roots account – the same one as in the app. That way the tree opens both in the browser and on your phone, and relatives can add to it.
A file with the .ged extension (GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1) or a .zip archive with one inside, up to 10 MB. We detect the encoding ourselves: UTF-8, UTF-16 and Windows-1251 all read the same. A photo of a tree or a PDF also works (the first three pages): we read the names, and you check them before adding.
If the name and years match, we fill in the person you already have rather than create a second one. Doubtful matches are not merged silently: we ask you whether it is one person or two.
Yes, at any time – with the “Undo this upload” button. Only the people you have not touched will go; those you have added a photo or a memory to will stay.
Only you and the relatives you invite. The file itself is never shared.
Write to support@iritual.kz and attach the file. We see every failed upload and look into it: programs write the standard in their own way, and we teach the parser new cases.
The uploaded tree is already in Roots on iPhone and Android: one account. Relatives add photos and stories from their own phones.