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Subject: TMG-L: Two people working on same database
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:05:29 EDT

>Here is the problem. I wrote a family genealogy in 1982 which needs
>considerable updating. One family member volunteered and entered all the
>data from the book into a TMG dataset. I started out working on the earliest
>generations in a separate dataset while another family member who is also
>a TMG user volunteered to put in the more recent generations updated
>information into the main dataset which has the book information in it.

It seems to me that the easiest way to split up a database is down lines of
descent, not across generations. If this was all the descendants of one
person, then divide up according to the the children of the first couple. If
there are 7 children, one person would take the first child and update all
the descendants. Then it would be quite easy to go into the original database
and group out all of that line and cut it, then add in the new, revised line.
You then would just have one line to connect up - the first child to his
parents.

If your book is arranged by generations, you will have to skip through the
pages as you won't be revising page by page. You should have copies that you
can write on and check off as you go.

Donna Przecha
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