Genealogy Chat

I would like to copy a contacts tree from this site. I do have her permission - but is there an easy way of doing the relevant parts without wasting reams of paper. I seem to ending up trying to have both trees open and doing a name at a time. Is there a way we can link our trees? Sue

Unless you use a programme which can read Gedcom files (eg Family Tree Maker, Family Historian or similiar) there isn't an easy way to do it. If you do use software then your contact can download their tree as a gedcom and e-mail it to you. This would allow you to have a 'ready made tree' that you could either keep separate to your own or you could 'merge' (combine) the two trees into one. If they have software and you don't then you could download yours and send it to them for them to merge, they could then send you a gedcom of the new file. Personally i would rather have them separate until i could verify the details. Glen

Thank you for replying. I think I sort of understood it!!! All our facts are verified because she is a cousin but we have relatives with the same name marrying other cousins with the same name and then giving their sons and daughters their names. I am further on some lines than her. Helpppp!! What I really meant to say (I think) was can I print off her tree from here but only the relevant parts to both our lines? Sorry to be so vague! Sue

Thanks Glen, I think I will do the old fashioned way and just do manually. Less chance of me doing it wrong! Sue

Your difficulty is that the information is coming from two sources (two trees). To combine the info into one tree you either have to do it manually (type it in one name at a time) or use a software package to do it for you via the 'merging' of the two gedcom files. Depending how big each tree is then manually typing the details could take a night or two but the gedcom option takes only minutes.