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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG for Dummies + Merge
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:01:30 -0500
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Linda:

When you merge, doesn't it put the merged number in the reference field?
Maybe you could select all Ref > 1 .. or do you use numbers in it?

Bonita

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Lawhon" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG for Dummies + Merge


> Bonita said:
> >all options .. name, birth date, death date, parents, etc. I found
> >them and
> >merged them. Now: Voice of Experience here ... you can delete tags you
> >don't need here but since it is more time consuming to see source
> >information, .... and NEVER use a father from one and the mother
> >from the
> >other .. you lose your marriage record. SO, now I just merge
> >everything ..
> >then go back to them and look at each tag individually and either
> >delete or
> >in the case of two identical children, I merge them. It takes more
> >times,
> >but you will feel that you are absolutely correct when you finish.
>
> I am in the process of merging. Sigh. Another voice of experience
> will say that there all kinds of nuances to merging. Before you
> delete any tag in the merge screen, better give it a very long
> consideration. :-) So -- like Bonita, most times I just merge both
> screens and go to the next hit on the list. Now -- wouldn't it be
> nice if there were a way to print out a list of all those people you
> have merged???? Yep, 20/20 hindsight tells me I shoulda made a
> handwritten list but that is what computers are for -- I think. If
> this list is possible, could someone tell me how to do it. Now I
> have umpty ump people that I have merged -- a good many of them now
> sitting there with duplicate tags. I can see that my faded, torn,
> and tattered edit flag is going to be once more set to *no* and once
> more I will be going through the pick list one by one. I sure do
> hope the merge thing gets better someday.
>
> Razzlefrachits.
> Linda
>

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