Re: Merging from a GEDCOM file
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A minor refinement... When you don't have a simple applicable custom filter rule (like direct Ancestors or Descendants), you have to find another way to winnow out the grain from the chaff. Paring down the transitional imported tree branch using with placeholder Families... or the clipboard... can be very effective. In the past, I've liked using Tags for filters... but attaching a tag UPDATES the modification date for the record. And, if you're importing from another source and merging People one-by-one, you will eventually (and recursively) check when those records last received attention. (Given 2 equivalent records with slight differences, you'll often choose to preserve the freshest one.) So you want leave those modification dates intact. (Which, unfortunately, also means turning off the import feature's option to auto-tag and attribute a source. That also changes the modification date.) However, you can drop people into a dummy family and filter on that family. Or use the clipboard context menu to create a filter of the Selected clipboard People. Neither of those will approaches will change the modification dates. -Brian On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:43, Enno Borgsteede<[email protected]> wrote: Op 07-03-2022 om 13:25 schreef Peter Flynn: > As I slowly discover other family members with their own trees, often done in My Heritage or Ancestry or whatever, I need to find out the best 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? The way I often use, when I have new data downloaded from Ancestry or FamilySearch, or a rare tree from a remote cousin, is to import that into a new tree in Gramps, and then clean out all anomalies that may have come from the GEDCOM import, and which almost always appear as GEDCOM Import notes. Some may become useless events, which I can often find by sorting events by type. Then, when it's clear that I'm only interested in a known segment of that tree, like ancestors or descendants of a known person, I export that as Gramps XML, using a standard filter, like ancestors, or family descendants. The latter is important, because the standard descendant export does not include spouses, and you normally want those too. I also make sure to exclude objects that are not related to anyone, so that I don't get all sorts of unconnected notes, sources, and especially places. When I don't know where the connections may be, I import a backup of my own tree into a new one, and then add the whole GEDCOM, or backup of a cleaned import, and run the duplicate finder first. And when trees are large, I often use RootsMagic to explore those duplicates, because its duplicate people finder is way faster than Gramps', and can perform merges with a single click. Regards, Enno -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org