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--- Begin Message ---I was thankful I did this many years ago. I would slightly change Chris directions. Once you decide which is your Master Database. Take all the others and merge them into one database. Once they are all in one, renumber them with a new lowest starting RIN and MRIN numbers Originally my master file had 30,000 persons, so I renumbered them the first 100 in the "Ahnentafel" style (1 being the central person in the file) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_numbering_systems You have to manually first renumber rins 1-100 to some other number, then renumber the central person to RIN 0001, the father to RIN002, etc. Once I got to 100, I just did the automatic renumber fill in all numbers. When I had my OTHER database all merged together I renumbered them with starting RIN at 300,000 and Marriage MRIN at 300000 Then when I went to merge the Other into the Master I knew I was always trying to keep the lower numbers on the left and merger Higher into lower. Legacy does make this really easy. Now whenever I see the RIN number over 300,000 I know they arent 'connected" to my one big master family. Dont think twice about making backups as you go along. Hope that helps, Jay On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:51 PM Chris Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 , <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> <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_8078510467536665625_m_-4529158810545265161_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> -- >> >> LegacyUserGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe >> http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >> Archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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