Can I combine family trees without having to restart one of them?

Question

So I have three huge family trees, and I wanted to combine them (note: they are oc's, not real people). And I don'y want to delete and redo each huge tree (consisting of around 100 oc's each). Any way to do this?

Answer 1

If there is only one person who overlaps in two 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.