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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: File keeping
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:23:13 -0500


Cheryl Robinson wrote:
>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 don't know that there is a consensus on this. Some keep a single dataset
while others keep separate datasets. Personally, I keep a single dataset
partly because a person is only entered once -- one of the prime reasons
for a database system. The other reason I keep a single dataset is that I
very often find people that I am searching for through having a single
dataset and the extended relations of what I thought was another line
altogether. There are times when I want separate datasets -- usually for
sending a copy to another researcher. For these situations, I can easily
split out a copy of just those that I want into a separate dataset.

Hope this helps -










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