Sam
A nice feature that I use is from the “Tools” section “Compare Two Files For
Duplicates”. This allows you to view potential duplicates in your own file and
your wife’s, and tag the ones that you would wish to merge. The simplest way
(assuming that you are not using these tag numbers already) is to use the
number “1” tag on one file and the number “2” tag on the other file.
You then import the “wife’s” file into yours, find the tagged individuals and
manually merge them. Most often when you merge one duplicate Legacy will
automatically switch to duplicates mode and find other potential duplicates,
usually your tagged persons.
When you have finished merging, go to the names list, click on the “Search” box
at the bottom of the list, choose the “Show All Tagged > Tag 1 Individuals”.
The list should now show all these individuals with both tags “1” & “2”. Any
individuals that only have only tag”1” still require to be merged with their
tagged “2” duplicate.
Les Williamson
Bonnie Scotland
From: Sherry/Support
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2013 4:04 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MERGING 2 GEDCOMS
Sam,
Let's give you the correct terms for what you want to do so it'll be easier to
find the instructions in the Help file.-
You *import* one file into another and then *merge* the duplicates.
If you look up "Import" and "Merge" in the Help index, you'll find great
instructions for doing both of those processes.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Sam Franc wrote:
The instructions in the help file are very confusing.
What I want to do is merge my wife's to mine to get one big file to look at.
We have few common ancestors and I would like to see who they are.
What is a simple way to merge them?
I have them in a split screen but can find no menue to merge them together.
Sam
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