Comparing similar family trees

[petefj]

My family tree is into 6 generations and I'm back to 1792. I came across a family tree written by me some 4 years ago, and foolishly I exported it as a gedcom file and loaded it into my new tree. I was thinking at the time, that it would only load the names and details that were different between the two family trees.

Well of course it didn't. It loaded everything and my tree size doubled in size with numerous duplications that took me days to sort out.

So my question is this. When you come across, or are sent what could be a duplicate family tree how do you do a comparison between the two?

I'm rather new at this and any help would be appreciated.

petefj

[grangers14]

I will move this over to Misc. area

[grangers14]

Do you mean another persons tree compared to your own?
If it was me I would check the info and check I have correct certificates or parish records to each person.
Jo

[SRD]

Some programmes have the ability to check for doubles either when importing or afterwards and you could use an external programme like winmerge or duplicate cleaner to compare and edit the files before importing.