Hi Yes, you should be merging the multiple files into one. Apart from the issue of making multiple backups you are also having to maintain information on the same person, who is common between multiple parts of the family, twice. And if you match my tree you will find out that there are multiple people who are in multiple parts of the trees.
The first thing to do is to take a full set of backups for all of the trees, and then make NO changes to them until you are complete. Secondly, decide which one of them is the MASTER and make a copy of it as the new tree. You will then add each of the other trees to the new tree. In your case the number of duplicated people should be minimal and you should be able to run the standard merge function. For the duplicated people it should then ask you to merge the records into one merged person. For each of those you will need to decide which parts of each person you need to keep, if they are different. After completing each merge you need to verify that it is good and take another backup of the merged file, because you might need to step back and rerun again. Finally, at the end check through to see if you have multiple trees in the new model. Ideally you should not, unless you had them as independent trees in the original files, but it is worth looking and then decide what do with them - delete or find out whether they are a duplicate. Now you just have one tree to maintain and no duplicate people. Good luck. Regards Chris >From my Motorola G6+ On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, 20:17 , <olivanna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Folks... I am hoping someone will have the patience to tell me if I > should add all my different family files into just the one. > If this is the best way to go and will some information and media > overlap and cause difficulties. > I have eight files eg. Husbands maternal and another paternal... same for > my families. Takes time to backup each one. > How to go about merging all files. > > Gail Morrow > olivanna...@gmail.com > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > <#m_-4529158810545265161_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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