Moving your tree to Stambeam

Importing a file

Stambeam reads GEDCOM (the exchange format for family trees, files ending in .ged), GEDZIP (the same, with your photos included), Gramps XML and GEDCOM X. Every family tree program can make one of these files.

1. 1
   Start the import
   Go to File, Import (GEDCOM, Gramps, GEDCOM X)….
2. 2
   Choose your file
   Click Choose file…. Nothing is changed yet.
3. 3
   Look at the preview
   You see how many people, families, sources and photos are in it, and where something does not fit.
4. 4
   Choose what you want
   Choose Into a new tree, Merge into the open tree or Analyse only.
5. 5
   Import
   Click Import. Just before, Stambeam automatically makes a copy of your tree.
6. 6
   Check the result
   Is it right? Choose Keep. Not what you wanted? Choose Undo and everything is back as it was.

What happens to your data

• Your original file is never touched.
• Data that Stambeam does not know is not lost. You see it in the preview under Unknown data, it is kept, and it comes back unchanged when you export.
• Photos are copied along when they are next to the file (or in the GEDZIP archive).
• After a merge you look for duplicate people with Tools, Duplicates.

Taking your tree with you again

With File, Export GEDCOM… you make a GEDCOM file. You choose the whole tree, the ancestors or descendants of a person, or a group. Under Living people you choose whether they are included fully, with their name only, or left out.