Genealogy Chat

I have been given access to someones tree and permission to copy the details as we both have same family members!!
Can you please tell me how I copy all the details without having to indivdually read and type out
I only want one family from his tree and he will want part of mine
hoping someone can help
Val

If you only want one family then it is going to be best if you copy and paste the details of the relevant people carefully onto something like a word document and then copy and paste details you are sure of into your own tree.

I'd be very unlikely to want to copy a chunk of someone else's research and transfer it straight to my own tree as I'd need to double check any details anyway.

Sue

you can copy one person at a time on to the clip board. this copies all the details about that person not just the name and dob. If i'm doing this I open 2 windows one with tree I'm copying from and one for the one I'm copying to. I then put the members onto the clipboard one generation at a time and then paste them one generation at a time This makes it less likeley you'll make a mistake and its easy to check that you've not got people in the wrong generation (easy when they all chose the same names).
And sue of course it right that many people would want to check all the details first- but some (like me!) are just too eager and are doing this for a bit of fun rather than as a science and some know that the sotce of tehir info is certain.

Good luck
Nicola.

Thank you both for your help
I have been typing since I put on my thread
But I had already read through the tree to know they were my family so had to fill in the details!!
what a life we lead hehe!!
many thanks
val