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. Herman Viaene -- 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)