Hi Anne, Search - Detailed Search Individual - Modified Date - after - date (eg 20 Feb 2014)
That gives you a search list that you can tag on an unused tag number. Then export those with that tag to a new Legacy file - in this case you don't need the surrounding family members. Then import that file. If you haven't done any merging or marking of people as not duplicates in your file make sure when you are importing the file you set the option for the starting RIN to a number much higher than the number of people in your actual file. When merging, you want to be able to tell at a glance which file the person is from. You merge right into left. If the wrong person is on the left you can swap them over. If when merging you find there are heaps of possible duplicates to check and you don't have many people that you imported, you may want to use Manual merge instead. If they have much higher RINs they're easy to pick up in the Index View when you've ordered the View by RIN. But make sure you swap the people over in the merge so that you're merging the person with this large RIN into the existing person with the smaller RIN. The only way to get over fear of merging and to learn how it actually works and what you can control is to do it on copies of your file OR on files which you have just backed up and you really do know how to restore a file. By that, I mean that you've done a restore. Then you can experiment without fear. If it goes well, you don't have to restore the files - or if you've done it on copies, you can now do it for real - but do backup the files first. (BTW - anyone who is reading this who hasn't restored a backup should stop right now and restore a file ;-) Note in the restore process you can rename the file. Make sure you do this or you'll overwrite your current file. There's little point making backups if you don't know how to use them) Yes you can edit the set of notes you want to keep or you can ask to append the other set of notes. Take particular care to check the sources of individual events where the event is identical but the sources are different. You may have to copy the sources you want to keep to the left person before merging. Cathy At 02:47 PM 8/03/2014, you wrote: >Cathy, > >Could you explain how you can do this. > > >"search the current database for people modified >after that date and export them and then merge them into the restored file." >Also in merging can you find entries in notes >that are different and can you merge two entries manually. >I find automatic merging scary. > >Anne 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
