Hi Paul,
"what if I wanted to put all of this stuff back into the original huge
file again...And have two files, one of the direct line, and one with
more of the branches? Would that be a hassle or a simple match/merge
process as long as dates of birth, parents or other important
information coordinated?"
If it was me, I would keep one large file as my database. If I then
wanted to carve off a section of it for sharing with someone else, there
are ways to do that.
Keeping the database together will help prevent omissions when you're
updating a person who appeared in more than one file - very easy to
forget when you're in the middle of things! And how often have we all
found that one branch of the family intersects with another that we
didn't know about before? If they're in separate files, you might miss
that connection.
Right this minute, I'm not practising what I preach, LOL!! I've got my
partner's family in a separate database to my family, but I'm working on
combining them. I would be *very* surprised if I found a connection
between his family and mine (though I learned by chance at the weekend
that his former boss's grandparents were friends with my grandparents!),
but it will help with keeping the master lists (locations, sources, etc)
consistent. Already I get frustrated with how I've entered the same
thing in two different ways in the two files, so I'm looking forward to
getting that sorted.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
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