Copying a family tree

[naomi24]

I've just joined Genes Reunited. A family member has done some research and has quite a big family tree on there, which I have access to. I’ve been copying the information from that across to my tree but it's a slow and laborious task. Does anyone know if there’s a way to transfer the whole tree across in one hit?

[Barmaid]

Contact them and ask them if they would email you it in "gedcom" form (that is the normal format supported by most ft software and genes reunited).

However, I never trust anyone else's research.

[Barmaid]

(Apart from the helpful chaps and chapesses on here of course!)

[naomi24]

Thanks very much Barmaid.

[craft1948]

I'm in the process of copying quite a large family tree from Genes Reunited (I don't like their new format) onto a tree on ancestry.co.uk. As you say it is quite a slow task so I have taken this as an opportunity to check my findings, and have been alarmed by the discrepancies I found in my previous research.

[naomi24]

I don't know what their old format was like - but no scroll bar doesn't help. Click ... click ....

And the two trees not staying in the place you left them doesn't help either. What a chore!

[craft1948]

That's why I'm transferring all my data across to ancestry. When they did the data transfer from my old format tree to the new one they actually mixed some of the details up, so I now don't trust the site.

[naomi24]

Oh, blow! And I've just joined as a Platinum member!

My relative has Ancestry, but she has the basic membership on Genes and her tree is there. We'll just have to see how it goes.

[craft1948]

You'll be okay Naomi as being new everything will be in the new format. I starting building my tree on there about 7 years ago and loved it, until the recent changes. The Community boards are brilliant when asking for help.

[naomi24]

My relative tells me that a lot of people on Facebook are moaning about the new format, and saying that 'customer service' isn't up to much either. I'm not on Facebook, so I wouldn't know.

[guernseyman]

If you go to the home page on GR, find "Help" and in the search window type Export Tree you will find instructions which may help you.

[craft1948]

I don't use their research as I've only a basic membership, but have found out quite a lot from contacts with other people with matching ancestors in their trees. I also subscribe to ancestry, findmypast, and thegenealogist, as they all have various things to recommend them.
I must say that if it hadn't been for the Community board on GenesReunited I'd never have found my great-great-great-grandfather's birth records, I cannot recommend the people on there too highly.

[naomi24]

Thanks GM, I'll have a look.

Craft, I'm entirely new to this - so I'm just feeling my way around the site at the moment. I don't have much of a clue about it all - but I'll bear the Community Board in mind. I shall probably need all the help I can get!! :o/

[craft1948]

Just give a shout in here if you get stuck.............there are loads of mad genealogists willing to help.

[naomi24]

Thanks Craft.