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From: "Courtney Tompkins" <>
Subject: Re: [FTM-HELP] Newbie Help, please
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:29:08 -0700
References: <20030112.134025.-226457.6.jaxon2@juno.com>


You could also just merge the new people. Make an Outline descendant tree of
the new branch, export it to a new file & merge that.

Always work with a COPY of your file - that way if the merge doesn't go
well, you can go back to your original file (file, copy/export family file -
give it a "new name", then open that "new name" file

I also have a list of things I fix/check in a file someone sends me before I
merge it into mine - it's in Word. Let me know if you want a copy attached
to email.

Or I could send it to the list in a few different emails if others are
interested.

Courtney



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Cipriano" <>

2. Merging - I have practiced merging two dissimilar files
together and that part worked well. It looked as if I just put a large
Italian family database on top of a large Irish database. There was no
intermingling of names - as I would have expected.

Now, I a have a file john.ftw that is 4.0 Mb large. I've
recently received a file...john2.ftw that has a lot of the same data in
--- but it also adds a different branch to the family. New data that
adds additional family members to the existing database. Obvioulsy there
will be a lot of the same names in these two files and the will be about
1 mb of new data. My gut question is --- what happens when I merge these
two files???

I'll be appreciative of any and all answers. TIA, Jack

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