How to Copy One Family Tree to Another in Ancestry

Question 1

Fortunately it is not possible to incorporate large amounts of information from someone else'southward tree on Ancestry.com without going through it private by individual.

This slows – but far from eliminates – the rate of:

plagiarism: taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own
perpetuating false information: many public trees on Ancestry are poorly researched

So how can you lot proceed if you exercise non wish to manually get through all the information, but y'all are certain(!) it is correct? All you can exercise is:

Contact the tree owner and ask if they would provide the tree to you lot in GEDCOM format. Y'all can then incorporate the GEDCOM into your tree. If they will not do this, it is unlikely they would accept wanted you to download the tree wholesale anyway.

Still, I strongly suggest against this approach. Genealogy is much more than fulfilling if you practice the work yourself.

Question 2

To complement the previous respond -- sites do exist where people have shared their GEDCOM files for download. Here are some things to consider if you lot could download the entire tree. 'Best exercise' is to Not merge their entire tree with yours, but to keep it dissever and to use it as a reference considering:

Some sites which let users to upload trees don't take good mechanisms to allow the tree owners to update their tree. And so the same person may take uploaded their tree multiple times (or on multiple sites). It isn't always obvious which of these trees is the most recent, and without talking to the owner, you can't know if they withal agree with what they 'published' previously.
Trees made with the help of Hints may take errors because a bad identification was suggested past the hint algorithm -- and on a site like Ancestry that generates hints, yous don't know whether the tree was made for 'hint bait'. A person may adhere a hint without doing any research at all, simply to encounter what other hints may show up if that speculative hint is 'correct'. Since Ancestry doesn't have a flag to indicate the tree owner is non sure about a item source or fact, unless the owner leaves a comment to warning other readers, there is no fashion to tell which role of the tree may exist soundly researched and which parts are speculative, except by guessing that the outermost bits of the tree are likely to exist the near 'iffy'. Now consider that any part of the tree could take been, at once or some other, one of those 'speculative' bits -- or could have been copied from someone else's "hint bait" tree. (2020 Update: since Ancestry has introduced MyTreeTags, users tin mark an private'south unabridged contour with "hypothesis", "unverified" etc., only in that location is no standard flag for mark a single item on the profile as unverified -- the only matter users can do is leave notes in the event'southward description.)

Some of the best professional genealogists I know warn people not to trust their work blindly, just to evaluate the work yourself. You tin learn far more past examining and evaluating whatsoever sources used, and asking why someone might have decided a fact was correct, than y'all can past simply plugging the raw facts from their tree into your own.

Answer · 2015-11-15 17:18:13Z

To complement the previous respond -- sites do exist where people have shared their GEDCOM files for download. Here are some things to consider if you lot could download the entire tree. 'Best exercise' is to Not merge their entire tree with yours, but to keep it dissever and to use it as a reference considering:

Some sites which let users to upload trees don't take good mechanisms to allow the tree owners to update their tree. And so the same person may take uploaded their tree multiple times (or on multiple sites). It isn't always obvious which of these trees is the most recent, and without talking to the owner, you can't know if they withal agree with what they 'published' previously.
Trees made with the help of Hints may take errors because a bad identification was suggested past the hint algorithm -- and on a site like Ancestry that generates hints, yous don't know whether the tree was made for 'hint bait'. A person may adhere a hint without doing any research at all, simply to encounter what other hints may show up if that speculative hint is 'correct'. Since Ancestry doesn't have a flag to indicate the tree owner is non sure about a item source or fact, unless the owner leaves a comment to warning other readers, there is no fashion to tell which role of the tree may exist soundly researched and which parts are speculative, except by guessing that the outermost bits of the tree are likely to exist the near 'iffy'. Now consider that any part of the tree could take been, at once or some other, one of those 'speculative' bits -- or could have been copied from someone else's "hint bait" tree. (2020 Update: since Ancestry has introduced MyTreeTags, users tin mark an private'south unabridged contour with "hypothesis", "unverified" etc., only in that location is no standard flag for mark a single item on the profile as unverified -- the only matter users can do is leave notes in the event'southward description.)

Some of the best professional genealogists I know warn people not to trust their work blindly, just to evaluate the work yourself. You tin learn far more past examining and evaluating whatsoever sources used, and asking why someone might have decided a fact was correct, than y'all can past simply plugging the raw facts from their tree into your own.

Accepted Answer · 2015-11-15 13:26:41Z

Fortunately it is not possible to incorporate large amounts of information from someone else'southward tree on Ancestry.com without going through it private by individual.

This slows – but far from eliminates – the rate of:

plagiarism: taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own
perpetuating false information: many public trees on Ancestry are poorly researched

So how can you lot proceed if you exercise non wish to manually get through all the information, but y'all are certain(!) it is correct? All you can exercise is:

Contact the tree owner and ask if they would provide the tree to you lot in GEDCOM format. Y'all can then incorporate the GEDCOM into your tree. If they will not do this, it is unlikely they would accept wanted you to download the tree wholesale anyway.

Still, I strongly suggest against this approach. Genealogy is much more than fulfilling if you practice the work yourself.

If yous take this communication and become slowly through respective copse , it can take fourth dimension, but at that place are a some big benefits: a) y'all end up including only the people that are relevant to you, b) the evidence/facts/citations from those copse is COPIED into your tree, and thus then available to yous to scrutinze, reuse, and duplicate offline. — Oct 5, 2016 at 12:56

Answer 3 · 2020-04-13 23:24:11Z

I disagree with some of Harry Vervet's answer with regard to Ancestry.com I agree is not possible to bring large amounts of information from another's Family unit Tree to yours. There are basically two ways to bring another'south Tree into your Beginnings Tree. #i merge a Gedcom (ged) file to your Tree. All that does is brings names and dates into your Tree. It is no fun editing for duplicates, wrong dates and misaligned branches. Also you do not go whatsoever underlying support from from the merged Tree. #2 The other way is to use an "Ancestry Member Tree" and link what y'all choose as "Select trees with relevant data". All that does is reference your person to the Tree where you got that information. No supporting particular comes beyond to your Tree. I don't think incorporating information has anything to do with plagiarism. False information comes over when you cull "relevant information" that is incorrect. I concord the just way to get another's Tree directly into Beginnings other than linking with "relevant data" is inquire and receive. The idea of merging through Roots Magic is worth consideration, since you can bring all your Tree including back up into Roots Magic from Ancestry. Also since yous can print your Roots Magic Tree, information technology may be possible to pre-merge edit the other tree to foreclose most bug (you will ever have a few errors). So if you can become the Roots Magic download of some other'southward Tree it might be possible to merge and keep support. I call up it is worth a try.

It would be dainty if those who downwardly voted knew as much about Ancestry equally I do. Maybe a comment where I am wrong should be considered with your down vote. — Apr xiii, 2020 at 23:fifty
Well aside from the poor formatting which makes your reply quite hard read I recall the main issue is i of whether merging in other people's tree like this is actually a good thought in the showtime place - the existing answers make clear that this is something which needs to be approached with extreme caution. — April xiv, 2020 at 7:09

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