* Importing from MyHeritage - WARNING

[Valkrider]

I recently received a gedcom from someone who had exported it from MyHeritage Family Tree Builder.

When I had it uploaded into a new project I found that I had over 1600 records with no names but with some facts. I also had another 400+ correct records.

After some analysis I found that it was a partial export from MyHeritage that excluded living people and a couple of branches I was not interested in. It turns out that MyHeritage honours this BUT it does not completely remove all the data for an individual record in the gedcom but leaves some details behind.

This is an example:

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0 @I10@ INDI
1 RIN MH:I10
1 _UID 5f887868e8ee31eb92235cd998421b8c
1 _UPD 15 OCT 2020 12:27:20 GMT-5
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE never married

It is a simple matter to delete all these records with a named list BUT MyHeritage is at fault here and should not be exporting this partial record.

Just FYI.

[mjashby]

Not certain, but could this be a result of the original user privatising individuals and facts for those people they don't wish to be directly identified? If I remember correctly, something very similar occurs when exporting GEDCOMs from Ancestry when individuals and their facts are privatised, i.e. mostly 'blank' records are exported, but may still include any individual facts that the user may have failed to privatise, even for living people. They always include details of the recorded Gender for all privatised records, as that fact can't be privatised.

I don't use MyHeritage, but an Ancestry example is that I (currently) tend to privatise all individuals born less than 100 years ago, even if deceased, but an exported GEDCOM from my research tree will still 'map' all the recorded descendants of all non-privatised individuals (and any non-privatised facts appearing in privatised records), displaying anonymised 'blank' records which will appear in charts linked as 'Male', 'Female', or 'Unknown' Gender; so you can, for example, still see that X+Y, born pre-1920 whose full records are displayed had '3' children who all married and had 'x' children, etc (i.e. the full recorded family structure is still exposed for privatised individuals, which, in turn, exposes the links to any spouses' ancestors. For further clarity, for my own record (obviously living) I would appear as 'Male' but with no personal details. However, if I fail to also actively 'privatise' my own individual birth, marriage details, etc., any ancestry links to evidence records, such as links to the relevant GRO Index entries would be visible in any GEDCOM export.

Mervyn

[Valkrider]

Mervyn

This is the MyHeritage Family Tree Builder program not their online tree.

[mjashby]

Colin,

I think FamilyTreeMaker behaves similarly. It certainly did the last time I tested importing a FTM GEDCOM to RootsMagic, but will try to retest.

Mervyn