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How to share information from trees?

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Fillionous

Fillionous Report 3 Apr 2010 19:54

Greetings,

I have been lucky enough to find a distant relitive on GR. We both have quite large, but currently totally separate trees. The common ancestor is back in the 1600's!

We have decided that we would like to take the information from each others trees and incoparate it in our own trees and more specifically those we have off line (In my case this would be on the program 'family tree maker').

Now while I can print her tree off (and she mine) there does not seem to be a way of printing off the WHOLE tree including all the dates and information on each individuals details. There are no pictures so that is not a problem, but we do want to get things like marrage dates and information on where people were and where we got the details from.

So far I have had to manually transcribe, piecemeal with all the attendent risks of error and I am not looking forward to trying to deal with the 600 odd people in the tree or her the 400 odd from my tree...

Is there a better way?
Thanks for your help and advice.

Be bright, be bold
Fillionous aka Pauline

Researching:
Cload / Clode Devon/Somerset

Helen in Bucks

Helen in Bucks Report 3 Apr 2010 20:41

the simplest way if you are happy to share real e-mail addresses is for each of you to download a gedcom from either GR or your off line trees and e-mail to each other, you should then be able to import into your off line program (make a back up first in case it goes wrong)