GEDCOM upload - duplicate children

Joined: 30 Jan 2021 Posts: 5 Topics: 2

Hello,
I have started testing the Ahnenblatt software yesterday and I think I would really like to switch to it from my current program.
However, when I upload my GEDCOM file, there's an issue. A lot of my ancestor records get somehow duplicated so that it looks like my great-grandfather had two daughters with a name Angela born in May 1911. If I delete one of them, the whole tree gets disconnected.
I am sure I do something wrong but cannot find a solution...

I would be grateful for an advice...
Thanks a lot!

Posted: 30.01.2021, 14:47 (No subject)

Hi moofy,

welcome to the Ahnenblatt world. There is a small but friendly community along and a software developer who is open to help, too.

I was puzzled about your issue: It sounds quite close to a description we got some days ago in the German part of the forum (double persons after importing GEDCOM). Don't remember where it was exported from. But never heard about a thing like that before. I still think you should have a closer look into you GEDCOM file - with a text editor like Notepad++.

Or you ask directly Dirk Böttcher, the programmer. You find his email address via the software: menu [?] > [Info]. In case you would be ready to leave him your file to test it.

Joined: 30 Jan 2021 Posts: 5 Topics: 2

Hello Fridolin,

thanks a lot for your kind welcome & answer!

I opened the GEDCOM file with notepad and to be honest, I cannot see any issue there. I searched for my great-grandmother Angela Mangold because she is the only Angela in my data set. I found her name just once (except for the picture section where her name appears multiple times). My download is from GENI, but I think Ahnenblatt would suit my needs a lot better. I downloaded the first version of Ahnenblatt I found online (definitely not the newest one) just to test what it can do. Really impressed with all the possibilities... If only I could get rid of the duplicates.

I will try to contact Mr Böttcher directly... Thanks a lot for your support!

Joined: 30 Jan 2021 Posts: 5 Topics: 2

I kept playing with my GEDCOM file and I found out that when I download the list "Blood Relatives" I have no issue. However, when I download "Forest including in-law trees" I always get the issue with duplicate children. Still do not understand why but at least I found a way to work with my data... Smile

Posting my solution just in case someone runs into the same problem...
Thanks.

Posted: 01.02.2021, 22:18 (No subject)

Very interesting! Thanks!

With "Blood Relatives", you probably won't have all persons included, do you?

Posted: 01.02.2021, 22:35 (No subject)

Implex?

Posted: 02.02.2021, 00:03 (No subject)

No, exactly the same couple has all children twice (see issue.docx). That's no issue of an implex. You can't tell more if you don't see the GEDCOM file.