At 07:56 PM 8/8/98 +0200, you wrote: >In version 2.30 I have 6 separate databases of branches of the >family kombrink ( Germany and the Netherlands.) I cannot conect >those files due to missing links. But I would like to combine them >somehow in one database in order to be able to search for names and >birth/death dates. Please advise: Do this. Temporarily add a dummy record (unattached) to each of the databases - that will be identical people. The best thing to do is give it a surname starting with a couple of A's (such as /AADUMMY/) This way the program will find the matches immediately when you do a Merge Database. Now the Merge Database will match the two common people and then add all people from the two databases to a single new database. Do this one at a time for each of the six databases until they are all merged. Good luck. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com