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   MB to Ruth Wilson   
   Re: Ancestry - combining trees   
   11 Apr 19 22:28:56   
   
   From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 11/04/2019 17:47, Ruth Wilson wrote:   
   > I have two trees on Ancestry - for maternal and paternal lines. I'm not   
   > sure now why I decided to set it up like this, but, whatever!   
   >   
   > I'm now looking at going down the DNA route but it wants me to link this   
   > to only one tree and there isn't an option to merge trees or any simple   
   > way of doing this that I can see. (although plenty of very obscure   
   > relatives seem to have managed to import my research wholesale into   
   > theirs, but that's another story!)   
   >   
   > Before I play around and mess things up, do you have any advice on the   
   > best way to do this? I am thinking of downloading my maternal tree as a   
   > Gedcom, then importing it to my father's - would that work? Or should I   
   > just start from scratch importing a whole family gedcom?   
   >   
   > Thanks   
   >   
   > Ruth   
      
   I don't think there is any easy way to merge completely.   
      
   You can merge import an individual from one tree to the other one and   
   that will give you chance to import the people around him.   
      
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