I tried to amend the title of a source citation from some indivduals property boxes in order to match the title I more commonly use. (I created the first one when I first started using the program about 3 years ago and now am doing some tidying up of earlier entries). I thought a box would appear telling me that I already had a source of that name did I want to add to the existing source. Instead I discovered that it had created a duplicate.   I am muddled now because I do not know which individuals are linked to which of the two same titled sources.  Surely there must be a built in way of FH4 guarding against creating duplicate titles?  Or provide a way of rectifying the error?  How do I find out which individuals are linked to a source? I tried running a query but it didn't show any results (though that is likely to be my inexperience in running queries). Can someone put me straight on this, please?  The 'Help' section does not mention such stupidity!.    Many thanks Pauline  

On 5 September 2011 15:00, Pauline Lowe <pauline247@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am muddled now because I do not know which individuals are linked to > which of the two same titled sources. Surely there must be a built in way > of FH4 guarding against creating duplicate titles? Or provide a way of > rectifying the error? Go to the records window to the source tab and select your two sources, by clicking on one and shift clicking on the other and select Edit/Merge compare records, you can then merge the two source records in the same way as you would merge individual or family records -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

FH allows duplicate titles because its unique record key is the Record ID. This is the number shown in square brackets after the title at the very top of the property box window. To discover which Source is linked to which Individual, select the Source and use View > Record Links. As Jane says if you actually want to merge two Sources, then select them both and use Edit > Merge/Compare Records. Click on the Help button for more advice. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pauline Lowe Sent: 05 September 2011 15:01 To: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Source records with same title I tried to amend the title of a source citation from some indivduals property boxes in order to match the title I more commonly use. (I created the first one when I first started using the program about 3 years ago and now am doing some tidying up of earlier entries). I thought a box would appear telling me that I already had a source of that name did I want to add to the existing source. Instead I discovered that it had created a duplicate.   I am muddled now because I do not know which individuals are linked to which of the two same titled sources.  Surely there must be a built in way of FH4 guarding against creating duplicate titles?  Or provide a way of rectifying the error?  How do I find out which individuals are linked to a source? I tried running a query but it didn't show any results (though that is likely to be my inexperience in running queries). Can someone put me straight on this, please?  The 'Help' section does not mention such stupidity!.    Many thanks Pauline