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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Combining Databases
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:45:44 -0500
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"Freeman Mendell" wrote:

> I have my family information in two different TMG databases and I want to
> see about combining them. TMG does not seem to have a way to do this
> automatically by matching a common member of the databases. Does anyone
> have information on this? I have looked in the archives to no avail.

Search Help for Merge - two articles explain how to do it -- one on merging
the data sets themselves, and a second on merging duplicate people. The short
answer is that TMG will not automatically merge two people. That's part of
Bob V's philosophy of never having the program assume anything about your
data.

You have to merge duplicate people one at a time. This leaves you in complete
control of which Tags stay. A couple of hints -- You can choose to exclude
tags from the merged person, but if you do any sources or other information
on them is lost. It's safer to merge all tags and then remove those you don't
want to keep. You are likely to want to transfer source citations from tags
you will remove to those you will keep. A trick to do that is to open the
citation in the tag you will delete, and press F10 to "save" that citation.
This puts it on the Repeat list. Close that tag and open the one you will
keep. Press F4 to open a Source Citation screen, then F3 (Repeat) to place
the citation you have just "saved" in this tag. Enter the sureties if you use
them, and close the tag.

Be sure that the Birth, Death, Marriage, and Parent/Child tags that you want
to be Primary are marked that way after the merge, so the proper tags will be
used in all the places that these tags control.

If the duplicate people are not easy to identify, there is a report you can
run that can help find.

Terry Reigel




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