"Dick Wells" <[email protected]> wrote: >Please explain how this works since FOW neither writes or reads record >numbers in a GEDCOM file. Actually, FOW *does* write the individuals' record numbers into the gedcom file and they are the same as in the database. It is when FOW imports the gedcom that the record numbers may be changed, for FOW ignores the record numbers in a gedcom file when importing and starts with the first individual as number one and continues sequentially. Legacy, on the other hand, can be told to retain the record numbers from the gedcom file or to do it sequentially like FO does. Knowing this, you could use Legacy's superior duplicate finding abilities by exporting a gedcom from FO and importing it into Legacy, letting it retain the individual record numbers. You could not import a merged file back into FO flawlessly but you could have Legacy create a list of the duplicates and their record numbers and then you could use the record numbers on that list to locate the duplicates to merge back in FO. Wayne League