Thank you for your helpful suggestions. I appreciate it. I think I have a lot of work ahead of me......
Elizabeth On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Ward Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Elizabeth, > > There was an LUG discussion in April about duplicate searching, and > another last month on the web page about the new feature for instant > duplicate checking. You mention that you used Intellishare, but the > problems might be with the candidate duplicates that are presented to you > in that feature. If there are differences in the names of the individuals – > even subtle differences – then often Legacy will not bring them to your > attention as potential duplicates. You can experiment with the settings for > this to see if it helps a little. (I have asked Millennia for future > enhancements in this area.) > > After you go through the merge process, have a look for undetected > duplicates. One way is to look at the name list. Once you find a duplicate, > you can invoke the manual merge function for just this pair of individuals. > Doing that often brings up new candidates for merging, for related > individuals, so you end up sorting out multiple duplicates. > > I would be careful about deleting the family files that you have merged, > until you are really certain that you have everything in your new, combined > file. A suggestion is to keep the old family file (or a backup file of it), > but to rename it so that you can see exactly what it represents and not > confuse it any further with the new, active file. > > Ward > > *From:* elizabeth <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:58 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Merge ALL into one very confused > > Hi group, > > I would like to merge ALL my separate Legacy family files into one big > file (they are all the same family)....I am finding it easier to work with > it that way, for me. > > I read back through the archives of this group to learn all I could about > doing this, but I'm having problems. > > I created a 'new' family file to begin with. I then imported the most > recent backup of the main family file I had been working with the most, to > use as the 'base'. > > But a couple of things are happening that I don't understand.... > > 1) When I tried to import a family file that I had kept separately for one > particular group of the family, it 'doubled' the information and put the > people in twice. It showed the wife as having 2 husbands and 2 sets of > children and the husband having one set of stepchildren and 1 set of > children even though both sets are all the same people. What did I do > wrong? I used the Intellishare feature. > > 2) 'Some' of the people who were imported from a different family file > were marked with a Tag even though I had not tagged them. How did that > happen? > > 3) I want to make absolutely sure that I get all the notes, research, etc. > into this new family file but there are sooooo many backup files on my > computer that I can't figure out which ones to import. Do I have to import > every one of them and compare them in order to make sure I have everything? > That would take a long time to do! > > Even though most of the family files I want to merge into this new one are > all the same people, I am finding that the files contain lots of different > information. I now think that many times when I opened Legacy to add info, > I was actually opening different files...not the same one all the time, > because I wasn't always using the same computer. I had Legacy on so may > different computers over the years as well as copies on flash drives that I > am 'swimming in' lots of different copies!! So I am finding info in old > files that isn't in the most recent backup. > > 4) After I import a family file into this new family file I just created, > is it safe to delete it so I ca get rid of most of the ones on my computer > and sort of 'start over'? > > > > How do I get all this merged---from all my multitude of backups on various > computers and flash drives--- into one family file??? > > Thanks! > Elizabeth > > > > > > 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 > 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). 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