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From: JEFFREY OWENS <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: importing-merging records
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 19:54:56 -0400
References: <4339139042.20000603083630@parttimeincome.com> <393977CA.D1EEE21C@bellatlantic.net>


bob gillis wrote:
>
> Randy Robinson wrote:
> > Do you print it out and enter it all manually checking each and
> > every person?>
>
> Yes!!! Doing it that way gives you the chance to check the information
> and often more importantly the sources.
>
> > Do you import it and straighten out duplicates and changes manually?>
>
> AS TMG is now set up, you have to merge each of the 100+ duplicate
> people one by one. TMG will give you a list of candidates. Several
> people have asked for an automatic or semi-automatic merge of people
> with duplicate tags and duplicate sources being merged. Bob V has
> resisted this approach as he does not want the program to make the
> decisions. Also I think the programming to perform this would be a lot.
>
> Perhaps if the merge candidates are shown together one by one and you
> have to say yes or no, it might work. But if you merge ID 3000 into ID
> 1000, the program will ask do you want to enter a marriage for 1000 and
> the wife ID 3001.

Bob,
You are confusing me. Isn't the presentation of each duplicate side by
side on a one by one basis just what TMG does? And the question it asks
seems to be a double check that if you eliminate an individual that you
want to retain the marriage of the remaining duplicate as the correct
one?
Jeff Owens
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