Transferring My Catalog To Daughter's Computer

Both my daughters and I use PSE9.  I have a large family ancestry catalog that I want to pass on to them.  They both have their own PSE catalogs with their family pictures.  So I want to give them my ancestry catalog which would create a 2nd catalog that they would have access to under their PSE program.
I am unsure as to the best way to make this transfer so that they will have 2 distinct catalogs that they can open independently.  My thought is to loan them my external hard drive which contains my PSE backup file.  Then they would connect my external drive to their computers and initiate a Restore operation to an external hard drive of their own.  If I understand this process correctly, that action would create a new catalog (my ancestry catalog) on their external drive.  They would then open PSE and select the catalog that they want to open, at which time they would be presented with 2 choices - 1) open their family catalog or 2) open my family ancestry catalog on their external hard drive.
Will this procedure work, or, is there a better way to do this?

'Fess up, now, Bob -- did you write the PSE Organizer's Help file?
That's exactly the procedure to use.  The only thing I would add is that when they restore the catalog from the backup, they will also be writing the actual media files to their external drive, so make sure they've got more than enough space for that.
Added:
Once everything is confirmed to be working OK, they might consider using the Organizer to move the catalog onto their internal drive for performance reasons.  The actual images would remain on their EHD.
Ken
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