Validation report

[GeneA Ology]

I am new to GEDitCOM II.  I imported my GEDCOM from Family Treemaker and GEDitCOM II suggested running a validation report,  which I did.  I have about 60,000 people in my tree and the validation report says there are roughly 1/3 of the people with warnings or errors.  Should I stop right now and not proceed with GEDitCOM or what should I do?

[John Nairn]

You are probably fine to continue. It depends on the type of errors. A common issue with Family Tree Maker is that it exports a lot of things that are not allowed in the GEDCOM standard. They get most important things right. I would have to see sample of errors and warnings to see the issues. My guess is a lot of the errors are the same type of error. GEDitCOM II can continue fines even with those errors and warnings.

You may want to someday clean up the data to eliminate them. That task could be a challenging with 60,000 names. Sometimes, however, the fix is easy. For example, the validation step can automatically delete unknown custom tags. If you see lots of errors about GEDCOM tags starting in an underscore, then you can delete them all at once.

On Nov 28, 2025, at 8:10 AM, GeneA Ology <blacks...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am new to GEDitCOM II.  I imported my GEDCOM from Family Treemaker and GEDitCOM II suggested running a validation report,  which I did.  I have about 60,000 people in my tree and the validation report says there are roughly 1/3 of the people with warnings or errors.  Should I stop right now and not proceed with GEDitCOM or what should I do?

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