Charlene, That is what I thought. So the best way would be to clean up the one he sent you back as far as how he entered data and such to your standards of how you want your data formatted, ie places and names and such. If he did not enter any sources then you could create a new source for his research and then tag all the new people that he entered and then just use the advanced sourcing for the tagged people and put it under the general source for them. You could also tag them by their creation date ie all those entered after the date you gave him the file. Once you have the database to your liking then you can use the intellemerge function to merge them together. For more info on how to do that see the help file on intellemerge.
From: Charlene C Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 7:58 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Seeking suggestions for sorting through a database mess On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:28 AM, R G Strong-genes <rgstrongge...@gmail.com> wrote: You did not specify what format of your database you gave him. Sorry if I wasn't clear. In my mind GEDCOM isn't a database in the same way that a .csv file isn't a spreadsheet. I sent him the Legacy files. Thanks, Charlene -- Russell G. Strong P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133&Click=1114 Oh so many branches and not enough time to check out all the roots!!!. Check out my Genealogy Pages at http://www.rgstrong-genes.com . Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
