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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Divided datasets
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 11:40:02 -0400
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Daniel Davis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to split up datasets into separate new datasets, once they are formed and have had data entered? >

Yes.

> All of my information about both my husbands family and also mine is entered in the same dataset. I did this so I would be able to print information for my children. I have a lot of information to enter-- is there a maximum amount of information recommended to go in a dataset? >

Practically no. People have data sets with 35,000 people in them

>Maybe I should have a separate dataset for him and another for me? >

No. Anything about your children and grandchildren would have to be
entered twice or copied.

> I need to know now while I am "laying the groundwork" for the information I will be entering in the future. If we have separate datasets then is there any way that I will be able to print anything with the information from both datasets on the same document?
>

I do not know in Ver 5.

> As an example, I have the 300 page autobiography of one of my grt grt grandfathers. He was an itinerant preacher and writes of wandering the streets of Manhattan, and many other adventures, 1830s to 1850s, such a treasure. It is a photocopy made 20 yrs ago. The print is fading and will be unreadable before too many more years. Is TMG a place I could put this, or is this too much to fit in, and what would be the best way to do it? or would it be better to use microsoft word? >

I would first take autobiography to a document conservator who can
recommend how to best preserve the original and how to make a working
copy. Then transcribe it into a word processor document which you can
link to your gggf in TMG as an external exhibit. You can scan the
document and keep as an image on CD.

Keep all your family in one data set.

bob gillis

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