<<I am tryong to merge two Gedcoms. The longer I work at it the farther apart I seem to get. I am now at 4015 of 4331, 316 apart. It started at 2600 of 2800, only 200 apart. Am I doing something wrong? I know you can't tell. But it all seems very strange. Sam>>
Legacy's merge feature is one of the main reasons I am a fan. Before Legacy, to merge two files (you should look at the GEDCOMs before you merge, and clean up locations, names, sources - whatever - in the form of files, then drag and drop) I would have the program find duplicates, then present them to me. There was a specified number they found that did not change, but only about half of the merged were found. I would look at each merge and see what other family members needed merging, then write down the RIN numbers of the pair. Legacy took care of that. Now, when I do a drag and drop on two files that contain much of the same people, I will manually merge one couple. Legacy looks around at all the relatives, and tells you how many more merges it has found, so the number left to merge continues to grow until it runs out of duplicates. As I did not search for duplicates, sometimes there are unconnected individuals that can be found that way. Also I always scan the name list to pick up the occasional duplicate that computers find difficult to pick. So your experience is doing exactly right. Carl 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
