Genealogy Chat

I have read the last 2 entries and thank you for your responses. I see exactly where you are coming from. I am new to this and my excitement/ eagerness at making quite an important connection to someone elses tree got the better of me. I see I will have to plod at my own pace and verify every detail, which I suppose is how it should be. thanks again

Hi Warren

Not everyone researches their tree as thoroughly as everyone else.

I buy certs etc for all my direct lines (when I can find them!), CR results, wills, anything else etc. So I'm as certain as anyone can be that the info on my direct lines is correct. However, some people do seem to build a tree using just the marriage and birth refs, census results and, occasionally it seems, a bit of guesswork.

The problem is, that unless the person you are connected to is willing to share info - certs and other proof, then how do you know how well (or badly) they have researched their tree?

Of course, the choice is yours. And of course they could be an excellent researcher, but - there is always a but - unless you can see full evidence, or unless you check it all for yourself, how sure can you be that it is correct?

And the other thing is, that you won't want the whole of their tree anyway, just the part of the tree that links to your family, so it shouldn't take that long to make a note of those ancestors ...

Jill

Thanks for the information I had just found what i was looking for under the help icon and yes it would involve exporting files etc. I appreciate what you say about best practice it just seem strang when some has researched a particular name and ehtered them onto their tree that another person should disregard that and go over all the research theirselves. But thank you for taking the time to reply

There is no way of automatically connecting your tree to someone else's on this site. If the person were to send you a file you could could in theory merge it with yours on your PC using software such as Family Tree Maker.

However, why do you want to do this? The general concensus on here is that it is not best practice to simply copy another member's tree on to yours without first checking the its accuracy first.

Hi does anyone know if there is a way of connecting 2 trees together I am in contact with a member and we have found a couple who link our trees together. Is there a way of attaching his tree to mine or have I got hours of work ahead of me to manually input it Thanks.