Genealogy Chat

Someone has sent me lots of info which I need to check against mine. I read here on a thread how to do it but can´t find the thread......or remember it! I´d be grateful if someone can explain how to do it. thanks

just nudging up, I still haven´t worked out how to do it.

Not sure how to do it side by side..but what i would do is open another page and put one tree on each

Daisy

Do you mean in two seperate windows?

Open your tree as usual, then hold down the Ctrl button and press N. You should get a new window open where you can select from the drop down box someone else's tree.

You should now have two windows open, one with your tree and the other with the other one and you can swap between the two.

Karen

Thanks Julie and Karen but what I want is the screen split down the middle with my stuff on one side and and contacts on the other. I have been switching between screens but it is taking ages as there are 100´s of names to verify. I know it is possible as once someone did it for me and it was so easy to check stuff.

There´s a posting back from Sept. saying that someone was having the same prob. it seems this facility disappeared with the new upgrade.
If anyone knows a way round this I would be grateful.

Daisy

When you have both trees open, go down to your taskbar and right click, you then get a menu. There are options on there to either Tile vertical or Horizontal. When you have finished go back to taskbar and select Undo Tile.

Hope that helps.
Mary J

Interesting...I must give it a try too.

Hi just come back, thanks for replying, I´m going to give it a try.

I´ve worked out the sizing and tile bit, but I can´t seem to open BOTH trees. If I open mine then the contacts, their´s is just there instead of mine. This is prob. obvious but how do I open both trees together?

Haha, I cheated a bit and just used two laptops. I was fed up of flicking between the two, and all the tabs got me so confused. It saved me so much time though.

Beg, borrow and steal for the extra computer screen!

What a good idea, prob is that I work from satellite and don´t know if it would sustain another PC. coverage I get now is about 40 minutes out of every hour. But having actually seen this done before and how great it is to see both trees together I am determined to keep fiddling about with it.

Don´t think I can print contact´s tree out.
I´m a dinosaur too that´s why I can´t remember what I have just seen when I switch screens then have to go back and look at the same thing again.

I WILL SOLVE THIS

ok, if you want to open two trees at the same time, depending on which internet explorer you use, if you have tabs at the top on the Genesreunited page, right click on my tree and choose open in new tab or new window, then again on same page, open in new tab or new window, you will then have two of your own trees open and you can keep yours on one tab/window and choose another from the list in the other one

hope this makes sense

stephanie

Stephanie you´re a star !!

I have never ever used right click on fam. tree before so I didn´t know I could do that. It is so quick to do isn´t it and makes checking so easier.

THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES

n

SEEE!!!! ~LOL its easier when you know how........!!!! thanks Stephanie

Bob

There is an easier way to do this, click on my family tree, minimise window, go to contacts click on view other persons tree, another smaller window opens you should then see both trees at once if you then maximise the original one.

Bookmarking this for when I need it.

Diana

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