Re: Merging from a GEDCOM file

Brad Rogers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user
Organization Catch 22
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 12:25:37 +0000
Peter Flynn <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Peter,

>way to merge a fragment of their tree (eg "descendants of X,Y exported 
>as a GEDCOM file") with mine. Are there configurable packages to do 
>this, or is it better to retype or copy and paste?

Gramps understands GEDCOM and can import it into you database.  If
you've not tried it before, I suggest making a copy of your tree,
importing the GEDCOM into that and making the necessary family
connections.

If all goes well, you can do it again on the real tree or, and this is
much easier, start using the copy as the real tree.  Maybe after
suitably renaming it of course.

Even after a 'clean' import, there's bound to be work to do -
consolidating sources, places, and what-not.

Ultimately, it's up to you.  If it were only a couple of people, I'd be
tempted to add them manually.  More than a handful, and an import starts
to look attractive.

Each method has its pro's and con's.  It's up to you to decide which
outweighs the other in each.

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