[LegacyUG] How to join family files in Legacy

2013-05-02 Thread Peter
Greetings -- I am a newbie, so thanks in advance to anyone who knows more than I do (it won't take much). I have built two independent family files, one with 70 individuals and another with 60. There is an overlap of one individual -- my paternal grandma. One family file is hers, and the other is

Re: [LegacyUG] How to join family files in Legacy

2013-05-02 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 02/05/2013 18:19, Peter wrote: Do I want to wind up with a huge combined file with both families in it? or would it be better to keep them separate -- as there are no later or earlier connections. I would say you definitely want to end up with one combined file. (And if it only comprises

Re: [LegacyUG] How to join family files in Legacy

2013-05-02 Thread Wendy Howard
: [LegacyUG] How to join family files in Legacy To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:43 PM On 02/05/2013 18:19, Peter wrote: Do I want to wind up with a huge combined file with both families in it? or would it be better to keep them separate

Re: [LegacyUG] How to join family files in Legacy

2013-05-02 Thread Virginia Blakelock
Wendy - I'll be the dissenting voice. I have 4 separate projects - my parents and my husband's parents. The families lived in different parts of the country and there is no overlap. Our children's records are with my husband's surname. I've been doing this for about 20 years and never had a