You don’t want to update individual trees in 3 or 4 places though. Now, let’s say you’ve continued your research and you want to share more than the original tree you uploaded or created at a vendor. I don’t want to be “THAT” person who spreads bad information, even unintentionally. I had incorporated lots of non-documented information into my tree on my computer over the past many decades and I certainly didn’t want to share information online without verifying. Initially, that’s what I did, creating a direct line ancestors-only tree to upload. Or, let’s say you didn’t want to upload your entire tree originally, so you created an abbreviated tree at the various sites. Let’s say you uploaded a tree from your genealogy software on your computer years ago to the various sites and now you’ve made a lot of changes. This, of course, leads to the challenge of keeping multiple trees up to date – and the inevitable question of replacing trees. I use RootsMagic on my computer for my master tree, but I also have trees at Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Family Tree DNA so that I can derive the maximum benefit from those DNA/research platforms. Keep in mind that software changes from time to time, so information that you find online about this topic may be stale and it’s always best to confirm with the vendor in question before making a major change. In this case, I haven’t, but I’m sharing what I DO know and why I’ve made the choice I have so that you can do your own research on the rest.
I’ve started to write this article a couple of times now, but I hesitate to publish articles when I haven’t tried all the different scenarios. Eventually, every serious genealogist faces the question of tree replacement at vendors – whether they should do it at all, and if so, how to proceed safely.
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