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Gedcom Genealogy Search Engines

What is a Gedcom? The GEDCOM, the GEnealogical Data COMmunication standard of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), is a text file used to simplify the exchange of files between people who use different genealogy programs. GEDCOMs are also used to put family trees on the internet. The following search engines search different gedcom databases that have been uploaded to the internet.

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Ancestry Public Family Trees
Ancestry Trees contain more than 1.5 Billion names in family tree gedcoms submitted to Ancestry. Ancestry Trees, submitted by users, are the largest collection of its kind on the Internet.

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Ancestor Search Gedcoms
Exclusive Custom Ancestor Search of Genealogy Family Tree Gedcoms

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Search for text Gedcom Files that have not been converted to HTML (web page format) These files are still in the genealogy program format. Caution: Open a gedcom as a new file as it may open using your genealogy program. Keep any file you may open separate from your own genealogy file.






Family Search
Search the Ancestral file of the Mormon LDS -Church of the Latter Day Saints. Ancestral File is one of the world's largest collections of lineage-linked records
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One Great Family
Find your family tree for you in the work uploaded by others linked into the world's largest collaborative online family tree. $

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First Name Last Name
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RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
More than 600 million names submitted by users via GEDCOM files
Surname
Given Name omit living
Birth Place omit blanks
Birth Year
Death Place omit blanks
Death Year
Marriage Place omit blanks
Marriage Year
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