Yes, it occurs whenever there is any slight differences detected between the events in the two files. Even if the note field does not match character for character you will get double events (one from each of the original files). This way you have to decided which event to keep or manually cut and paste from one to the other before deleting the extra. Ira At 07:30 AM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote: >After merging several files I now find that many of the people have double >entries. e.g. the sequence of birth,marraige,death for each is repeated. So >far I have been deleting these one at a time as I edit, but am not clear on >how they could have occurred. I don't think that I even merged these >individuals from two groups containing each. Has anyone else seen this bug? > ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com