Hi Louise, regarding merges, this isnt as difficult as it seems, as long as your Dorot program will allow you to have 2 databases open side by side at the same time. what you need to do is...find one common person in both databases.......and literally drag the second one to your first.....when program asked you what you wish to do......sellect copy entire database...... that was the easy part..... your program should have the facilities to merge duplicate records.........now......as long as all the records in both databases for each person are identical....then the program should merge the data automatically. hope that helps...if not.ring me, i'll talk you through it regards Josev