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Subject: Re: TMG-L: File keeping
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:48:13 EST


In a message dated 1/18/2000 3:15:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

<< I am a new lister. I received TMG for xmas. I'm not sure about how to
organise my files. For instance do I keep my husbands family as a separate
file from mine, if so where do you draw the line (so to speak). If I need
to add my grandchildren to myself and my husband it means I have to do it
twice (once on my family tree and once on my husbands family tree).

I hope you can understand what I am referring to. What do most people do?
>>
I think you'll find the concensus is one data base you can always do reports
for certain members of each family. If you need you can copy a portion of the
database to another file for a particular purpose. But the big point you saw
immediately why enter the data twice <g> (that's 2X that errors can enter
into the data by mistyping instead of 1 <vbg>)
Patt Ricketts
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