[Gramps-users] Syncing multiple family trees

[Ron J. <sta...@gm...>]

While toying around with GRAMPS, I did some inquiries within the my family
to see if there was any material that could be (re-used). I stumbled upon a
number of family tries that descibe parts of my family, and seem not
overlapping. Some of the family trees are available electronically (after an
export to GEDCOM format), some are avalailable on Paper but might have been
produced using a tool (I'm waiting for the hardcopies to try and identify
the source).

Questions that I have.

GEDCOM.
When Importing/Exporting in GEDCOM format, is there any information that
(might) get lost in the process (I'm focussing on GRAMPS right now). The
tries that are available right now, are probably al maintained in Aldfaer
http://www.aldfaer.net/website/ which seems a dutch thing.

How do you Manage multiple family tries
Assuming that I would have several family tries maintained by different
owners, I can imagine importing them in several GRAMPS databases and trying
to link them. This would allow me to integrated the different family tries,
while keeping them physically separated. Every now and then I could have
updates on one of the family tries, without touching the other tires.
I this possible at all ?

I if would import them into on integrated famility tree, is it possible to:
- define a source on Import, so I can related the individual objects to the
source family tree ?
- update a family tree by importing an updated file into the database
(basically, how do I keep my databse synchronized with different electronic
sources)

Is there any documentation on managing several independant managed family
trees in one consolidated tree ?

Ron