Lavern Hall wrote:
Hello.
I'm having a real go-around understanding the difference between these
two options: "Add a NEW person or Link to an EXISTING person." Every
time I enter
an individual whom I know to be a relative, am I not "Adding a NEW
person", and wouldn't I select that option?
If I were to add this new person (a relative) and select "Link to an
Existing person",
that selection takes me to the name list where, it seems to me, that
I'd have to select
*everyone* in the family (direct and collateral individuals) to link
this new person?
If you already have a person in your database related by , say marriage, and you later discover that
this person is the son, daughter, father or mother of another person in your database you would then
link to the existing person by selecting that person in your name list.
If the person is not already in your database in some capacity then you would
add the new person.
I have often had a person in my database who was married to a known anscestor only to later discover
that this person was also th offspring of another ancestor. Linking to an existing person saves
having two entries of the same person.
--
Gene Y.
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