Can I combine two Family Trees?

Question

So I was making a few family trees and I found out a person in one of my trees was related to a person in another one of my family trees. Is there a way for me to simple transfere everything from one family tree to the other family tree so I don't have to recreate everything one profile at a time?

Answer 1

why not? I would do that too.

Answer 2

If there is only one person who overlaps in both trees, then you can merge them manually. Here's a previous post that explains how to do it. If you're not confortable doing that, there are programs that merge two GEDCOM files together. Here's an article from Family Tree Magazine that looks at a couple of them. It turns out that merging two family trees is a pretty common thing for people to want to do, and if you search on Google for "merging GEDCOM files", there are a lot of resources to look at.