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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: westdale on Friday 06 May 16 22:14 BST (UK)
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My ggrandmother and her ancestors occur in another person's tree. I know there are additional people there and additional information but they are not showing up as hints for me to merge or in the 'search trees' action on my ggmother.
How is it best/easiest to either:
force Ancestry to include that tree in the hints to me or
to copy a person from the other tree complete with facts/media
I am using FTM as the master copy but happy to do in web mode.
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Have you contacted the other person ?
I do not think you can "merge" Trees only people on a single tree and {I hope} not from 2 different accounts !
Are you sure the info is all correct ?
Kim
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Yes, I mailed them to say I would be 'stealing' some people who fit my tree.
The ggmother has the same date and place of birth in both trees.
I was hoping that I could provoke ancestry in to giving me a 'leaf' for the parent entries that the other person has -- it has sent me 4 other trees but not this one!
I am going to try creating dummy entries with the right name to see if it wakes the Ancestry search engine - I had hoped it might be easier across two windows with a copy/paste of some sort.
However, there is a down side to the tale ... as always with Ancestry trees, there is a load of farmyard out there.. in this case a wife dying before the husband was born and her daughter having a baby at 61. Ho hum.
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Yes, I mailed them to say I would be 'stealing' some people who fit my tree.
If you had contacted me in those tones, I would have told you where to get off! >:(
Family History should be about sharing data, and doing some research yourself.
NOT stealing from others, and offering nothing in return (which is what "stealing" implies).
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Going slightly off of topic, because of the way I have done my trees on ancestry, is it possible to merge one of my trees to another of my trees?
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Going slightly off of topic, because of the way I have done my trees on ancestry, is it possible to merge one of my trees to another of my trees?
No, unfortunately not - have learned this from experience :(
Now,when I have someone I think may "fit" at some time , I start another tree with a "new person" which means they can be linked later
Kim
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...just to add that where I have ended up with the same persons in 2 seperate trees - I have added a note "see......."
Kim
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Thanks for that. It's because I started with great grandparents and was only going to research my grandads mothers family as other members of the family had already done other parts.
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Clearly I omitted a ' :)' from my previous message.
25 or more years ago, I used to stumble around graveyards and parish registers in the hope that I might find someone related .. my head used to hurt from microfilm readers, and my exercise book was full of rejected references.
Now I am delighted if someone else already knows the information...but, being Ancestry, and Millennium file in particular, there is a high percentage change that the info is suspect (to use a polite term).
So yes I do quite a lot of work validating (and often rejecting), but it is focused. That is what networking is for, n'est-ce pas?
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Going slightly off of topic, because of the way I have done my trees on ancestry, is it possible to merge one of my trees to another of my trees?
No, unfortunately not - have learned this from experience :(
Now,when I have someone I think may "fit" at some time , I start another tree with a "new person" which means they can be linked later
Kim
You can but only by using the synchronised tree facility with Family Tree Maker and then using the program to merge one with the other. When you then next synchronise, it will upload the changes. You don't have to have the tree synchronised, you could just download copies of both and use FTM to merge on into the other, but you would then have to upload a new tree to Ancestry.
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Yes, I mailed them to say I would be 'stealing' some people who fit my tree.
If you had contacted me in those tones, I would have told you where to get off! >:(
Family History should be about sharing data, and doing some research yourself.
NOT stealing from others, and offering nothing in return (which is what "stealing" implies).
Well said!!
Indeed, I have blocked some "relatives" that have done exactly that, now they can do their own RESEARCH....
Had they not, I could have got them back 3 generations, with sources!!