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From: "Chuck Wolfram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] dataset vs project
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:40:19 -0500
References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030201194143.0295a320@pop.compuserve.com>


Karla Huebner <> wrote:


> Thus far I've only had one project/data set in 5.04, one keeping track of
> friends' data. I'm now thinking of starting two others, one of a specific
> family my family has been close to since the 1940s, and one for royalty
and
> the like so that I can keep track of them (ie not research them, just know
> who's where for historical background).
>
> While I grasp that data sets exist within projects, I can't tell from the
> Help file whether my plans are best served by being new projects or just
> separate data sets within one project. Any suggestions? All my own
> genealogy (including many unrelated people associated with my ancestors)
is
> in one dataset in 4.0d; these others are discrete sets that I have no
> expectation of ever wanting to merge with one another.
>
Karla,

I would (and have) put the royalty dataset in it's own project, along with
any other royal dataset you might create. The only possible reason to put
it into the same project as your family is if there's a possibility that
you, or your husband, happen to have royal blood.

As to the family that is close to yours: I might put that in the same
Project. If it's in the same Project you can copy persons from one dataset
into the other; you cannot do this if they are in different projects. And
members of that family might be witnesses in yours, and vice versa. How
extensively do you use witnesses?

Chuck Wolfram

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