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Subject: RE: [UFT] Blending files
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:14:53 -0400

Peggy,
The problem with "blending" or "merging" data from two databases onto one is not an UFT problem. It is actually more of a conceptual problem all genealogy programs have.
Just think, what logic could you use to identify the same person or family in two databases as being the same? Consider all the possibilities of duplicate, additional, and conflicting information that could be in the two databases. Any computer solution will have to compromise, and risk keeping some people separate when they are the same, or losing some information, or making incorrect links. Even humans, trying to carefully analyse what data they know or can guess at can make mistakes.
If you have two databases with different information on the same individuals, you might want to mount them as distinct databases on one computer, have separate versions of UFT looking at them at the same time, and then cut-and-paste text blocks from the "secondary" to the primary database. Another method is to create a family journal report file from the secondary database, so you can cut-and-paste text from, say, Word or WordPerfect, into your primary database.
I personally do not like the idea of trying to maintain data on one individual on separate databases.

Pierce Reid

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