Thank you Hilary. Your advice matched others and I'm glad to say the family has been re-united. I hadn't discovered the family merging facility and didn't have two ggrandfathers to merge - always seems to be something new and, despite the reading, it is repetition which helps most my old grey cells. Thank you for the support. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: <family-historian-users-request@rootsweb.com> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:01 AM Subject: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 92 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ERROR EDIING (Hilary Gadsby) > 2. ERROR EDITING (Peter G Birkhead) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:40:53 +0000 > From: Hilary Gadsby <hilgad@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [FHU] ERROR EDIING > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CACS5+VNQ2Tx7F4Lt1j1DhRi4V9=MXYs5JhA4D-yrZTbd8q-y0g@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> My Great Grandfather married and they were blessed with five children. >> ?Unfortunately he was not the best at meeting the Census requirements in >> 1871 and 1881 and died shortly thereafter and the family split. ?I found >> the fifth member and entered her in her place only to find AS and FH has >> married ggfather twice to the same ggmother - the first time with four >> children and the second with one. > > Peter it appears that what you needed to do was merge the 2 families > to give one set of parents and 5 children. This is simply to do in FH > and does not require you to use AS. Without knowing how you tried to > fix the problem of 2 families it is difficult to suggest how you can > correct your current file. > Do you have a backup created prior to trying to correct the problem > that you could restore from. If so you just need to restore from the > backup and merge the 2 families. Go to Edit them Merge/Compare > Records and select both family records. > Hope this helps. > Hilary > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:40:08 -0000 > From: "Peter G Birkhead" <wathon@tiscali.co.uk> > Subject: [FHU] ERROR EDITING > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <6C33CCD54F8443F993B18E54BCAFBBDD@architecef6c8f> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thank Jane - exactly what was needed for my HF records -I had looked for > the merging exercise but had not had recourse to the families record. > Learning daily. > Will try to steal the nerve to tackle AS next as Michel suggests. > In my previous message I mentioned saving to a "Temporary Folder" which > should have read "Temporary Directory". I hadn't called up this and > didn't know there was such a "Directory" - is there an explanation to read > up for why FH chose to locate the record there? > Thank you for your prompt help. > Peter > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS list administrator, send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS mailing list, send an > email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 92 > *****************************************************