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help with copying from one tree to another???

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Val :~) from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 10 Feb 2008 15:28

Haha!! thankyou David :~)
It looks like it may be the way I do it, unless the person has the time to send me the genealogy report and I really dont like to ask people to give up too much of their time!!
Val

Val :~) from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 10 Feb 2008 15:24

Thank you both Lindsey and Joan
I will contact him again and see what we can do..
I did ask if he would leave his tree open for me as I know its going to take ages..he has agreed to that!!
many thanks
Val

Merlin38

Merlin38 Report 10 Feb 2008 15:19

Val

The good news according to the help blurb on the tree page is you can copy information from one tree, then paste it into the relevant box on the other.

The bad news? It has to be at least 10 times slower, and much more tiring, than writing everything down on a piece of paper. If 2 large trees are involved, change the 10 to 20.

David

Researching:
Barratt, Brownhill - Nottinghamshire Brittain - Massachusetts and NY State

Joan

Joan Report 10 Feb 2008 14:59

Val.

My suggestion would be to contact that person and ask if they could email you a gedcom. I found it very confusing trying to copy the information from another's tree. And if there is a connection, a gedcom would be a lot easier to upload the information to your data file. Or, if they can't provide a gedcom, ask them to email you a genealogy report.

Joan

Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 10 Feb 2008 14:53

Not yet discovered a way of printing anything sensible off another tree
Even if you do manage to print off a bit of tree you still have to write down all the information by hand . How annoying is that !!

Researching:
For better results please give all the details ,name, date place as you can {pictures by me }

Val :~) from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 10 Feb 2008 14:38

I have been given permission to copy part of a family on someones tree on here, can anyone tell me how to get all the information without having to copy each name and all details individually,
surely there has to be a way???
PLEASE CAN YOU HELP
Val