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Tree Software: Major Cut & Paste

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Robert

Robert Report 5 Nov 2007 14:42

Can anyone recommend family tree / genealogy software that is capable of cutting and pasting an entire branch with several generations without messing up or losing all the data?

It is a long story, but I have discovered that my tree shows me descended from the wrong brother 5 generations back!

Basically, there were two brothers who both had a son called Charles in about the same year, in the same village. A marriage certificate proved that I had connected my line to the wrong brother!

Luckily, one brother was childless, so all I need to do is cut and paste everything from one brother to the other.

Any ideas which software package is capable of doing this without a horrible mishap?!

Robert

Robert

Robert Report 5 Nov 2007 16:39

I have FTM software. It does not seem to like cutting and pasting when there are two people who have the same name. In my case I have two cousins called Charles (their fathers were brothers). FTM seems to want me to delete one of them to complete the pasting operation.

BrianW

BrianW Report 5 Nov 2007 16:48

Can you not simply switch the personal details between the two brothers?

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Leclerc

Leclerc Report 5 Nov 2007 17:34

Robert
Don't know what you are using at present time, but I did the similar thing a couple of times in the last few months. I use Roots Magic at £15.00 it's a steal, all I had to do was to unlink from one son and link to another simple as that, it doesn't disturb any of the tree or underlying data.

Leclerc

Robert

Robert Report 5 Nov 2007 18:48

Thanks everybody. I did succeed in cutting and pasting the relevant tree branches using FTM, and it all looked good.

Sadly, I now can't upload either the new edited GEDCOM to GenesReunited, or the old GEDCOM that I downloaded as a safety measure! I just keep getting error messages from the GenesReunited team saying: "The file could not be loaded: An unknown error has occured. The support team has been notifed."

As a result, I have no tree on the website at all!

Arrgh!

Robert

Robert Report 6 Nov 2007 09:27

After much gnashing of teeth and tugging of hair, I have sorted out the problem and am back online with a corrected and functioning tree on Genesreunited.

My first GEDCOM files must have been faulty or corrupted.

Thanks everyone.

Robert