Hi Joan,
I would put them in my main file. You can have people in your file that
are not connected to your own tree. This means no hassles with
duplicate sources or place names, and when you find out how they connect
to you, you just link a parent from one tree to their child in the other
tree to combine them (or merge duplicates, if that's how it turns out).
I do this myself, and currently have nine trees in my file. One day I
will find out how they all fit together! :-) Mostly they are people
that have the same surname as some of my people, living in the same
village; I figure they must be related some how, so enter the data I
have found, while I have it, in the hopes that I'll find the rest one day.
<Ctrl><N> from the keyboard, or Add > New Unlinked Individual via the
menus will add a new person who isn't linked to anyone else, then if you
know of their parents/children/siblings/whatever, you can add them in
the same way that you would for any other person in your tree.
You can navigate from your tree to this new tree by locating a specific
name in the Name List. Or use View > Tree Finder (don't forget to
refresh it) to identify each tree and go to the lowest-numbered person
in the tree from there.
If you wanted, you could use a selected tag to identify the people in a
particular tree so you can see quickly that they're not connected to you
yet. I don't find this necessary.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/>
----- Original Message -----
*From:* "Joan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* 10/29/2008 2:40:16 PM +1300
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] copy master sources to new family file
I have a bunch of people that are involved in my current research. I
don't know yet how they all connect so can't really put them in my
tree. However I have a lot of data about them and would like to put
them somewhere. Someone suggested I start a new family file of just
these people and then connect them when I can. As these people come
from the same area as my already connected people, I would like to
copy all my master sources to the new file so I don't have to re-enter
them again. I can't figure out how to do that.
BTW - is starting a separate family file the way you all deal with
unconnected people too? Do you have any other suggestions??
Joan
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