To John Bibby If only 4 or 5 people are duplicated, then you can import the gedcom into your main database and then fix those 4 or 5 people. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bibby" <johnbibbyjohnbibby@gmail.com> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:07 AM Subject: [BK] Merging two files - using 'Compare' > Dear All > > I think I have selected the wrong route - can anyone please advise me. > > I have one file F1 and have just received a new gedcom F2. (Each has > some 5000 entries.) > > I know that 4-5 individuals are on both F1 and F2. > > I want to merge F1 and F2, avoiding duplicates. > > I decided to use the "Compare two databases (C2D)" utility. (Was this > my MISTAKE NUMBER ONE???) > > I easily compared and dealt with the 4-5 individuals I knew were on > both F1 and F2. > > But I also want to have all the other individuals on F2 copied onto F1. > > Doing this using the C2D facility is extremely long-winded. It seems > to work generation by generation. > > I have found myself repeatedly having to press 4 buttons: "Copy > Spouse", "Copy Event" (Marriage), Select "Children", "Copy all > Children". (Is this my MISTAKE NUMBER TWO?) > > I have spent about 5 hours repeatedly pressing these 4 buttons. Surely > there is a quicker way of doing this. > > And how do I know when I have copied all of F2 onto F1? > > Now just to make my day, the computer has crashed. Does this mean I > have lost all the work I have done? > > Thanks for any advice you can give. > > Disconsolately yours (it's raining here in York!) > > JOHN BIBBY > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >