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2007/7/16, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Lorraine, Yes your Gedcom imported into Legacy becomes a Legacy family file - BUT it did not originate from your own family file so can't be merged with your own family file using Intellishare. All my original comments still apply except that in "It could also be that you need to do more work on the Gedcom to tidy it up before you think about importing it into your own file" I was using "Gedcom" very loosely meaning the Legacy file created from the Gedcom - apologies for not catching that. The Find Duplicates in Legacy *can* find many possible duplicates even if there are no duplicates at all in the Family File. It all depends on the criteria you set for the process. If you are *sure* there are very few duplicates in the file, you are probably best using the Index View and scanning it for possible duplicates and trusting others to show up as you work with the file. Cathy At 04:59 PM 16/07/2007, you wrote: >Thanks, Cathy, for the comments. I did not make myself clear on that >score. It was a GEDCOM file that I downloaded onto my harddrive, >then created a Legacy family file just for it, and imported the >GEDCOM file into the Legacy family file with the *wizard >importer.* When I had checked it over, I used the wizard to import >it - now a Legacy file, if I understand the manual correctly - into >my larger Legacy family file. So, it should be apples to apples, >yes? Or did I misunderstand the manual. I thought that once imported >into a Legacy family file, the GEDCOM file was now a Legacy file. >Please correct me if I have misunderstood, because that could be the >source of the problem. > >My original file had no duplicates because I had manually entered >data that I had been researching myself. I hadn't checked the >incoming file as closely as I should have, but tonight I have been >following Richard's advice of deleting ghost spouses, and have noted >some duplicates a la "Hawise/Avicia/Agnes" and "Bretagne/Brittany," >but on the whole, the file that I downloaded doesn't seem to have >more than a handful, not enough to cause the Merge Mania. > >It is a lot of work, but you have given me some good pointers to >look at tomorrow, er, today. Cheers, Lorraine
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