I follow Mike's approach. I never (NEVER EVER) merge someones downloaded file with mine.
I enter information I find in the downloaded file and see how sure I am of it's accuracy and then I will start entering in my tree. However I do have a lot of (I think) and (Maybe) in my file just so I don't lose people who, well, I think and maybe are family <G> Eliz On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012/04/18 17:24, William (Bill) R. Linhart wrote: > >> About 20 % of the new family members are in my current file with high degree >> of >> confidence. >> >> Before I "shoot myself in the foot" I would like to ask this community for an >> approach to using a tree of unknown quality when you find one. This is the >> first time I have ever found tree I value. It links, without any doubt, to >> my >> tree to some extent or to a large extent. The 20% is a perfect fit. It is >> the >> 80% I don't know how to approach. > > Personally, I'd start maintaining two files - your, original file and the file > containing the newly acquired people. In the latter, I'd prune out the 20% > that > matched the original, leaving no overlap. I'd then begin research on what was > left. > > Over time, I'd hope to establish the links to the original file and as things > firmed-up, I'd add people to the original file, removing from the latter file > as > I went. Over time, the latter file would fade into history and could be > scrapped. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
