herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote: > To get your opinion how to handle this: > > I am maintaining 2 family databases that my late mother started: her > family (Watteeuw) and my father's family (Viaene). > > In previous versions of Gramps (1.X) it was possible to register (as > godfathers and godmothers f.e.) people that were not in the database > properly speaking. So when I upgraded, a lot of these records were lost > (really lost or replaced with references to empty records, both occurred). > Now I wanted to restore these infos, but then I hit the problem that the > "Watteeuw" uncles and aunts do not appear in the "Viaene" database. If I > import these people mutually then I could resolve this for myself and my > brothers and sisters, but if I want to do this for my father sister > (who married into another family) then ....... > Beside that, godfathers and godmothers are even not always uncles and > aunts, but very close friends , so these do not really play an important > role in the whole family tree, just beside the one single person for > who this is important. > > I logged a bug for this problem, but it was rejected. > > How do other tools record this? > > How do you (would you) handle this? Merging the two databases together > is something that I think not very handy and would only resolve half > the problem as I see it. Have you kept a copy of the original data and program so just export it all as a gedcom and start over with TMG or FTM 16 FTM just allows as many stubs of tree fragments as you wish Hugh W

Hugh Watkins wrote: > herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote: >> To get your opinion how to handle this: >> >> I am maintaining 2 family databases that my late mother started: her >> family (Watteeuw) and my father's family (Viaene). >> >> In previous versions of Gramps (1.X) it was possible to register (as >> godfathers and godmothers f.e.) people that were not in the database >> properly speaking. So when I upgraded, a lot of these records were lost >> (really lost or replaced with references to empty records, both >> occurred). Now I wanted to restore these infos, but then I hit the >> problem that the "Watteeuw" uncles and aunts do not appear in the >> "Viaene" database. If I import these people mutually then I could resolve >> this for myself and my brothers and sisters, but if I want to do this for >> my father sister (who married into another family) then ....... >> Beside that, godfathers and godmothers are even not always uncles and >> aunts, but very close friends , so these do not really play an important >> role in the whole family tree, just beside the one single person for >> who this is important. >> >> I logged a bug for this problem, but it was rejected. >> >> How do other tools record this? >> >> How do you (would you) handle this? Merging the two databases together >> is something that I think not very handy and would only resolve half >> the problem as I see it. > > > Have you kept a copy of the original data and program > > so just export it all as a gedcom > and start over with TMG or FTM 16 > > > FTM just allows as many stubs of tree fragments as you wish Meaning ???? I'm Dutch speaking, so some English idiom ??? > > Hugh W I should have mentioned it: running Mandrake, not Windows, so I think not many options there. Beside that, I quite like the way Gramps works ..... -- Veel mensen danken hun goed geweten aan hun slecht geheugen. (G. Bomans) Lots of people owe their good conscience to their bad memory (G. Bomans)