Dear Jane Many thanks for your response. I understand now where I went wrong when I attempted this procedure. I have found the appropriate directories on my hard drive and will now have a go - I found your instructions very easy to follow - I am absolute rubbish when it comes to help files and manuals; they often seem far too complex and detailed to be readily absorbed by my tiny brain. Thank you againKaren Please visit my Ridout family history website and blog at: www.the-ridouts.com > From: family-historian-users-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 304 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:01:02 -0700 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Adding one tree to another FH4 (Karen Francis) > 2. Re: Adding one tree to another FH4 (Jane Taubman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:46:30 +0000 > From: Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> > Subject: [FHU] Adding one tree to another FH4 > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY158-W4718381F4924252E817725B9CD0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Dear All > I am a reasonably long term user of FH4. My project consists of about 860 individuals - my mother's family. Recently I have been researching and compiling a separate tree for my maternal great grandmother's branch. Currently, it consists of roughly 200 individuals. How do I 'stick' the two trees together? The only common individual in both trees is my my maternal great grandmother herself. I have read the help files about merging and comparing but was frankly baffled. When I attempted to do what I thought was suggested, I lost all the links to attached multimedia in the original tree and all the unrelated spouses on the added tree. Clearly I haven't a clue what I am doing! So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable preferably, how I can achieve this? > Many thanksKaren Francis > > > Please visit my Ridout family history website and blog at: www.the-ridouts.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:52:46 +0000 > From: Jane Taubman <janetaubman@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [FHU] Adding one tree to another FH4 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAKBTZLqaR0pHH60twsrh8OPjz7M+5ZK2_JFCwghSd_GXC6V4RA@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Assume you main 860 person tree is your master tree and the 200 person > one is the child tree, I am assuming you have projects for both trees > and that your media is stored inside the project. > > 1. Make a copy of your Master Project (as a backup) using the Copy > Project option on the More Tasks button on the Project window. > > 2. Copy the contents of the media folder on your child project to your > Master Project media folder using windows, look carefully at the > copies if you are prompted to overwrite any to ensure the files are > actually the same. > > 3. On your Master project select merge compare from the File menu and > select your Child project gedcom from the child project fh_data > folder. > > 4. Work through the merge ensuring any matches on all tabs are correct. > > > On 27 November 2011 18:46, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> wrote: > So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing > multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their > associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the > two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable > preferably, how I can achieve this? > > > -- > Jane. > > Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS list administrator, send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS mailing list, send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 304 > ******************************************************