From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk
In message , Keith Nuttle
writes:
>On 4/11/2019 5:28 PM, MB wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>From what I have read the only way to do this efficiently is to
>download both trees into your computer's genealogy software. Once both
>are on your computer you can and merge Tree A into Tree B. Once you
>are happy with Tree B, you can sync it with Ancestry. After while,
>Tree A from Ancestry.
>
>I know that Roots Magic will do this and I believe Family Tree Marker
>can be used.
>
Brother's Keeper - so I expect some of the others too - has a
merge/compare function; it shows people it thinks might be the same
person from the two databases alongside each other, and you can decide
whether they are or not. That's mainly for where two people have worked
independently on the same tree, so you are trying to merge two similar
trees; for two mostly separate ones, like your "father" and "mother"
ones, I don't know if it has a way of letting you identify just the one
or two common people and then saying all the rest are separate people.
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Ancestry are no help at all if you keep your database other than on your
computer. I uploaded a GeDCom to them many years ago (2011 or 2012 I
think), and created a tree on Ancestry from it (~1500 people IIRR); over
the years since, I have accepted various "hints", so that old tree has
lots of sources, documents, and so on attached to the people in it. I
also maintained and updated my master database on my own computer. I
wanted to upload a new GeDCom from it (then over 4000 [now nearly 5000])
- but, they have no way of transferring all the links from my old one to
my new one, even though they are both based on GeDComs from the same
database (so would have the same reference numbers). They even, when I
asked, suggest I start accepting hints for the new tree. Which would
mean starting again - several sources, images, etc. for each event for
each of the people in the database - no, thanks! So I now have an old
tree on ancestry with lots of things (documents, pictures, other trees)
linked to it, and a more modern one with about three times as many
people (but including virtually all the people in the earlier one),
which has _no_ such supporting information, with no way of transferring
from old to new.
John
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