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FTM 2010 help please?

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Christine2

Christine2 Report 4 Apr 2010 11:20

Can anyone tell me (well my hubby actually:))please how to merge 2 family trees on FTM 2010. We have mine and his separate at the moment.

Thanks
Chris

Ivy

Ivy Report 4 Apr 2010 14:29

I'm on a much older version, but since you have no replies as yet, I'd suggest that you follow the maxim that if it can go wrong, it will - and so the idea that springs to mind is to export a Gedcom from one tree to form a new tree, and then see if you can export a Gedcom from the other tree into the new tree?

Hopefully someone with better suggestions will be online now!

Christine2

Christine2 Report 4 Apr 2010 14:46

Thank you for your reply Ivy.
He has tried the suggestions from the book that came with it but without success. So hubby has decided that, as he hadn't yet put in a lot of his tree, he is going to enter his tree by hand on to mine.

RobG

RobG Report 4 Apr 2010 14:55

I have 2005, so this may not still be the way, but under "File" on the menu, I have "Append/Merge". Select this from with one of the files, choosing the other when prompted. You will then have to tell it which individuals are actually the same people (one from each tree), rather than just someone with the same name (under "People" choose "Merge two specific individuals".
As I said, this is for 2005. Also, as Ivy said, if something can go wrong it will, so ALWAYS do this with copies of the files, so you've got something to go back to.

RobG

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 4 Apr 2010 15:02

It's fairly straight forward. The main problem with merging is when you have lots of names to merge together and some of the details differ, you can end up with duplicates if you don't know what you are doing.

What I would do is to start a new tree, leaving the old two intact. Then merge / append each of the old files into the new tree. The option is under File, Merge Whatever you do, make sure you know where your data copies are saved, so you can find them if something goes wrong. If you are in his tree and vice versa then your two names will need to merge when the second file is imported.

Christine2

Christine2 Report 4 Apr 2010 15:09

Thank you Rob and IGP, I have passed your suggestions to hubby.

Tina

Tina Report 5 Apr 2010 15:43

If you go to Help and choose index then type tree, tell it to search.
merge tree is one of the options. You could print the instructions to hace in front of you.

Golden rule, back up both files, as said before, and import both into a new file, first one then the other. Eliminate as many people that are duplicated in the second tree from the first before adding the second tree.

Researching:
Thomson, Lanarkshire. Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. Macrae, Macdonald, Cameron, Highland Scotland. Riddell, Aberdeenshire & England & Wales. Jones, West Wales. Longman & Hart, Dorset & Hampshire.

Christine2

Christine2 Report 5 Apr 2010 17:31

Thank you Tina.

It's all done now - thank you everyone.