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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Merging Two people
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:57:52 -0400
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Most of the time in IGI the record that does not have any children is the
one with the correct marriage data however this is not always true.

Myrnice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Eccles" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Merging Two people


> Myrnice,
> I will only lose data if I exclude the marriage tag that has the spouse's
> details while retaining the marriage tag that does not have the spouse's
> details. What I am asking for is sufficient information on the merge
> screen
> to allow me to make the correct decision.
>
> In the IGI, there is a record for each of a couple's children, each one
> with
> a Marriage tag. So there could be multiple Marriage tags for the same
> couple. If I merge all records for the same couple without unchecking
> anything for thousands of downloaded people, I will have a huge amount of
> work to "combine sources and data and delete the duplicate tags".
>
> Regards
> art
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William M Roberts" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Merging Two people
>
>
>> Art
>>
>> If you exclude some of the information from the merge process you will
>> lose
>> data. If you allow the merge to complete without removing the check marks
>> both items will appear on the merged individuals detail window. Then you
>> can
>> combine sources and data and delete the duplicate tags.
>>
>> Myrnice
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Art Eccles" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:11 AM
>> Subject: [TMG] Merging Two people
>>
>>
>>> If you are using the Look for Duplicate People function, I have noticed
>>> what
>>> could be a problem with the Merge Two people screen. If you merge two
>>> people where both have what appears to be an identical marriage tag, you
>>> could lose important data. If you look at the detail screen for both
>>> people, one marriage tag may have their spouses name and ID while the
>>> other
>>> one does not. This is not apparent in the merge screen as spouses names
>>> and
>>> IDs are not shown.
>>>
>>> If you merge the one with the spouse details to the one without spouse
>>> details, you lose the spouse details. So it is necessary to look at the
>>> detail screens for both people to avoid the problem, which seems to
>>> defeat
>>> the object of using Look for Duplicate People.
>>>
>>> Is it possible for the spouse details to be displayed in the Merge
>>> screen
>>> (if they exist) thus making it obvious which one you should keep?
>>>
>>> I have downloaded thousands of records from the IGI and am using a LOP
>>> in
>>> Excel form to find duplicates as I don't trust the Look for Duplicates
>>> and
>>> Merg in TMG for large numbers of people.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Art Eccles
>>>
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