On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:07 AM, William Boswell <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're talking about merging people, I've noticed when merging two people > together that Legacy will delete the events not selected. I had hoped with a > merge that all events, even duplicates, would be merged into the one person. > I've found that it's better to do a manual edit within the merge screen for > both the left and right people. >
That is the experience I had. > In another program that I won't mention, it merges both the people together > retaining all the information. That is what a merge should do. > That was my expectation. Boy was I wrong! > Make sure you backup everything before doing a merge or any other procedure > that could result in a disaster. Legacy is good about prompting us for that. > Yes, I'm not always good about that, but I did in this case. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
