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title: Your Data and Export
description: "A study should outlive its author, and it only can if the data is truly yours. Everything on the **Export** screen is free and always will be. ## The downloads - **All records (CSV)** - every field of every record,…"
url: "https://www.ancestorpress.com/docs/ops-your-data-export/"
updated: "2026-09-11"
category: "AncestorPress One-Place Studies"
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# Your Data and Export

A study should outlive its author, and it only can if the data is truly yours. Everything on the **Export** screen is free and always will be.

## The downloads

- **All records (CSV)** - every field of every record, including the as-recorded originals and the standardised values with their precision indicators.
- **One CSV per record type** - the same records split by type.
- **Place hierarchy (CSV)** - every place with its type, parent, county code, coordinates and notes: the gazetteer as data.
- **Reconstructed people (GEDCOM)** - people linked from the study's records, for any standard genealogy program.
- **Study archive (ZIP)** - the whole study as documented JSON plus flat CSVs (records, places, record sets, judgements) and a plain-English README, built for preservation and handover. A small manifest file describes the archive without the record data.

## What the plugin stores, and where

All study data lives in your own WordPress database. The plugin does not collect or transmit any of it to us. If you configure a map embed, visitors' browsers load the map from the provider you chose; the optional contact form emails the study contact address and nowhere else.

## Uninstalling

Deactivating keeps everything. Uninstalling removes the plugin's options and scheduled tasks; the study registry table is dropped only if you ticked **Delete data on uninstall** on the Study screen. The shared core tables used by the other AncestorPress plugins are never dropped by this plugin.

## Staged import files

Uploaded CSVs are staged in a protected folder while an import runs and removed when it completes. An import abandoned part-way (a closed browser) is cleared automatically after two days.