Merging Family Trees

Discussion in Technical Forum started by Terry Milholland, May 27, 2015
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Terry Milholland
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On my mother's side, I have 2 major lines: the Jones line and the Parham line. Most of my data is in the Jones tree, but I have a good bit under the Parham. If I create a second website for the Parham line, is there any way to merge the data on the 2 sites? I don't really want to hand enter the Parham data into my current website. I am afraid of making mistakes when hand entering a lot of data to my Jones tree. I also have data on my grandmother's great grand mother that has a lot more individuals and many of those individuals repeat first names in other generations. They are confusing enough to trace back when viewing.
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marie byatt
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You can not merge the two trees online on Tribal Pages (or basically any other site other than one or two people at a time)

But most computer based family tree programs do a good job of merging, my personal favorite is Roots Magic, where you can show both trees in one window side by side and drag people with descendents or ancestors from one to the other.

Once you have merged the files on your computer, you recreate a gedcom and load it to your TP site (backup the existing site first) As long as you have not altered names, TP should be able to reattach your pictures.

I tried to look at your site to see how many pics would be affected but the house link didn't work

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Terry Milholland
You can not merge the two trees online on Tribal Pages (or basically any other site other than one or two people at a time) But most computer based family tree programs do a good job of merging, my more ...
personal favorite is Roots Magic, where you can show both trees in one window side by side and drag people with descendents or ancestors from one to the other. Once you have merged the files on your computer, you recreate a gedcom and load it to your TP site (backup the existing site first) As long as you have not altered names, TP should be able to reattach your pictures. I tried to look at your site to see how many pics would be affected but the house link didn't wor
I only have 1 family history file. It has all my history: my mother's side and my father side. When I created the GEDCOM I pulled all descendents of my oldest Jones family member. I didn't put all of the information on my file because I didn't plan on including my father's side of the family here. Maybe I should have. I will think about it.

Thank you And only a few will. I just started putting pictures up.

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marie byatt
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I only have 1 family history file. It has all my history: my mother's side and my father side. When I created the GEDCOM I pulled all descendents of my oldest Jones family member. I didn't more ...
put all of the information on my file because I didn't plan on including my father's side of the family here. Maybe I should have. I will think about it. Thank you And only a few will. I just started putting pictures up
I must admit, I find it easier to have all the info on one tree. I have two trees because I am doing a One-name study and that needs to be kept separate.

But if you have them in one file, I would put the entire file as one TP site. I've got several cases where distant cousins on my father's side married distant cousins in my husband's tree and if I had had them on different TP trees the links would have required alot of explaining. This way they were all together. And You can always use colorcoding to differentiate the lines.

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Terry Milholland
I must admit, I find it easier to have all the info on one tree. I have two trees because I am doing a One-name study and that needs to be kept separate. But if you have them in one file, I would put more ...
the entire file as one TP site. I've got several cases where distant cousins on my father's side married distant cousins in my husband's tree and if I had had them on different TP trees the links would have required alot of explaining. This way they were all together. And You can always use colorcoding to differentiate the lines
I got one for you: on my mother's side, my grandfather married his first cousin's daughter. Then her youngest (paternal) aunt married her husband's (my grandfather's) youngest (paternal) uncle. Luckily, they didn't have any kids.

What exactly is a 'one name study'?

And I did go back and import my entire family tree, then renamed it to reflect that it covered both sides of my family instead of just one.

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marie byatt
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I got one for you: on my mother's side, my grandfather married his first cousin's daughter. Then her youngest (paternal) aunt married her husband's (my grandfather's) youngest (paternal) more ...
uncle. Luckily, they didn't have any kids. What exactly is a 'one name study'? And I did go back and import my entire family tree, then renamed it to reflect that it covered both sides of my family instead of just one
A one-name study is when you study a single surname over the entire world and throughout time. It's great fun and you really learn a lot.

My Great grandparents were the children of sisters and my grandmother was one of their three daughters, my husband's grand mother was her older sister - the youngest went to New Zealand.