Do you want to know how to combine your Ancestry Merge Trees into one master tree? If yes, then this is just the blog you should go through. First of all, you need to know that the issue with merging two trees is that you could lose some data and relationships between people in the merged tree. Therefore the solution to this is that you should keep one tree as a ‘Source’ tree and then connect the other to it instead of joining them together. Hence you would have both your trees available when you need to go back and research.
Ancestry Merge Trees
You need to know that the ‘Merge Trees’ feature is one of the best tools you could have as it helps you learn so much more about your family. Merging trees combines information from multiple trees into a single tree that is updated as new data and then added. Moreover, you can set them up to show the relationships between your ancestors, descendants and other people that are related to you like your siblings, parents, aunts and uncles.
How do I Create an Ancestry Tree?
Well, you must know that Family Tree Maker has created a new way so that you can view your tree using the merge feature. Altogether this is simply a new way of viewing your tree and it is called merge. You get to create it with both FTM and FamilySearch Family Tree as well. You would be glad to know that you even get to use the new merge tree so that you can combine your information from numerous trees simply into a single viewable chart.
What is the Importance of Merging Ancestry Trees?
Well, we guess that you are now aware of the importance of merging your ancestry trees, right? It is absolutely important to merge your trees because it helps in cleaning up the trees and the result is that after merging them your trees appear to be more accurate than before. Also joining is essential as well because it helps to keep track of your family trees and helps in avoiding duplicate information. Moreover joining trees can help you find common ancestors between two different trees also. You should know that you can even combine two trees in the Ancestry Member Tree Merge Wizard.
Also Read: Compact & Backup a Linked Tree
What is the Need to Merge My Trees?
Since you now know that merging trees is essential because when you have multiple trees the ‘Single Source Merging (SSM)’ helps you prevent duplication of information whenever ‘SSM’ finds any duplicate.
What is the need to merge my trees?
Well, you need to merge your trees when you find that two trees have no common ancestors in the last four generations (or five generations if one of the trees is from another country). You need to know that means that they are entirely unrelated and duplicates of each other instead. So you can easily check this out just by visiting your family page on FamilySearch.
How Should Merge your trees?
If you use the GUI (recommended), then you would have to select your local tree and then select the remote tree. After which the software will ask you if you would like to merge or update. Hence if you would like to join the trees then you should click on the ‘Yes’ button and then it will enter them automatically. However, if you have a substantial remote tree then this could take some time for the process to complete.
Furthermore, if you do this process from the ‘Command Line’ then note that you can also use the ‘Git Fetch’ also to download.
What are the Benefits of Merging Your Trees?
The benefits you get by merging your trees are as follows;
You already know that merging helps you find more relatives in your trees which also lets you share your information with them. This amazing feature is handy if they have data that you do not have such as a marriage certificate or a family photo etc.
Moreover, you also get to find your living relatives in your trees as the person that you are looking for might not necessarily be the person who could be easy to find. For example; someone’s birth certificate may list their mother’s name however it does not have their father’s name mentioned.
What can the Consequences be if you do not Merge Trees on Ancestry?
You need to know that ‘Fossil-Sources’ distinguishes clearly between the master as well as the working copy. Hence this means that you never have to doubt which branch you are on. Besides, there is simply no need to worry whether your work is lost due to merging the wrong branches.
You just have to run ‘Fossil’ from the ‘Command Line’ (instead of using the integrated interface). Doing so will help to make it easier to run multiple instances of ‘Fossil’ on different repositories simultaneously.
Conclusion
After going through the above given instructions you should be able to combine your Ancestry trees into one master tree effortlessly. Nevertheless, if you need any further guidance or have some queries related you can feel free to contact us at our toll-free Family Tree Support Number +1-888-257-3335 any time. Our most reliable and dedicated team of techs will be available in no time to guide you with absolutely suitable solutions. Moreover, if you like you could even connect with us using the Live Chat feature and get instant help from qualified experts.
