Hope someone can help us with this. Here is the problem: It involves birth names and adoption. When we enter the original birth name with the biological father it is fine. But then the child was adopted by her stepfather and while in court her entire name was changed. The program will list one man as biological and one as adopted. However, we cannot find a way to reflect the change in name. If we make the adopted parent primary and use the new name, then the name with the birth father is wrong. If we use the name at birth, it does not change with the addition of the adoption. The problem then becomes when she marries it uses her birth name and she has not used that name in many years. We have changed the names around, changed who is primary, we are going in circles and cannot arrive at a birth name, and the adopted name. We are using 5.0. Can anyone .help?????? Thank you, C Fancher Someone told me that there hada been some emails on this subject here, but I only just subscribesd so don't know how to go and get back emails either.

I treat married women the same way you do, In that I use the maiden name (not married name), But if she legaly changed her name prior to marriage I would list her legally changed name. Alan Jones Mission Viejo, Calif. -----Original Message----- From: Rollei Little [mailto:rollei_little@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:51 PM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names I think I have to disagree on this one. What about a married woman? When she marries she legally changes her name but you wouldn't change it in PAF. I would be inclined to enter First name (Birth name) New name. Rollei (in Australia) >From: "Alan Jones at home" <alanjones10@cox.net> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names >Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:30:11 -0700 > >I use a person's legal name. So if they legally changed it, that is >what I use. Of course I explain it all in the notes and I even use the >Also Known As / Other names field to put in the name at birth. When you >see the biological father, it is accurate that that child has a >different name because they legally changed it. Even if they were not >adopted, if the child legally changed their name it should recorded >that way in their family tree. > > > >Alan Jones >Mission Viejo, Calif. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: richcar@cfl.rr.com [mailto:richcar@cfl.rr.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:07 PM >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names > > >Hope someone can help us with this. Here is the problem: It involves >birth names and adoption. >When we enter the original birth name with the biological father it is >fine. But then the child was adopted by her stepfather and while in >court her entire >name was changed. The program will list one man as biological and one >as >adopted. However, we cannot find a way to reflect the change in name. >If >we make the adopted parent primary and use the new name, then the name >with >the birth father is wrong. If we use the name at birth, it does not >change >with the addition of the adoption. The problem then becomes when she >marries it uses her birth name and she has not used that name in many >years. >We have changed the names around, changed who is primary, we are going >in >circles and cannot arrive at a birth name, and the adopted name. We are >using 5.0. Can anyone > .help?????? Thank you, C Fancher Someone told me that there >hada been some emails on this >subject here, but I only just subscribesd so don't know how to go and >get back emails either. > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index >Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== AVG Anti-Virus Users Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.

If you are breaking it up, one for your spouse and one for you, I would use "All Ancestral Related" while you have your name highlighted, it would get all your family tree from you back. You might want to also do "family". > > From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> > Date: 2005/07/05 Tue PM 12:26:38 EDT > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > > Alan or anyone, > If I go to export, pick my name do I select "Ancestors" or "All Related" I > don't want to miss anyone in my family. > I only go back 10-11 generations but it is difficult to know who is my > family and who is his family when I get past the 6th generation. > Thank you. > Bette > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <alanjones10@cox.net> > To: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net>; <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:12 AM > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > > > | EXPORT - > | I would do EXPORTs and in each export select only the surnames you want in > that file. While I haven't done this for surnames, I have done it to break > up my file into my father's side and my mother's side of the family. > | > | Alan > | > | > From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> > | > Date: 2005/07/05 Tue AM 11:06:50 EDT > | > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > | > Subject: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > | > > | > Good Morning, > | > > | > I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell > me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. > | > Thank you for any help you can give me. > | > > | > Bette > | > > | > > | > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > | > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > | > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > | > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > | > > | > > | > | > | > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > AVG Anti-Virus Users > Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. > >

I use a person's legal name. So if they legally changed it, that is what I use. Of course I explain it all in the notes and I even use the Also Known As / Other names field to put in the name at birth. When you see the biological father, it is accurate that that child has a different name because they legally changed it. Even if they were not adopted, if the child legally changed their name it should recorded that way in their family tree. Alan Jones Mission Viejo, Calif. -----Original Message----- From: richcar@cfl.rr.com [mailto:richcar@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:07 PM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names Hope someone can help us with this. Here is the problem: It involves birth names and adoption. When we enter the original birth name with the biological father it is fine. But then the child was adopted by her stepfather and while in court her entire name was changed. The program will list one man as biological and one as adopted. However, we cannot find a way to reflect the change in name. If we make the adopted parent primary and use the new name, then the name with the birth father is wrong. If we use the name at birth, it does not change with the addition of the adoption. The problem then becomes when she marries it uses her birth name and she has not used that name in many years. We have changed the names around, changed who is primary, we are going in circles and cannot arrive at a birth name, and the adopted name. We are using 5.0. Can anyone .help?????? Thank you, C Fancher Someone told me that there hada been some emails on this subject here, but I only just subscribesd so don't know how to go and get back emails either. ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

Bette, Be careful using "All Related" as that could include everyone in your data base as it finds everyone that is linked to your selection. Unless you unlinked your father and mother from each other, both parts of the family will be included. What I have done is select "Ancestors" for, say your mother, then go to several of her farthest ancestors and select their "Descendants." This was I get the "all" of her family including your family. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > Alan or anyone, > If I go to export, pick my name do I select "Ancestors" or "All Related" I > don't want to miss anyone in my family. > I only go back 10-11 generations but it is difficult to know who is my > family and who is his family when I get past the 6th generation. > Thank you. > Bette > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <alanjones10@cox.net> > To: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net>; <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:12 AM > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > > > | EXPORT - > | I would do EXPORTs and in each export select only the surnames you want > in > that file. While I haven't done this for surnames, I have done it to break > up my file into my father's side and my mother's side of the family. > | > | Alan > | > | > From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> > | > Date: 2005/07/05 Tue AM 11:06:50 EDT > | > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > | > Subject: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > | > > | > Good Morning, > | > > | > I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone > tell > me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. > | > Thank you for any help you can give me. > | > > | > Bette > | > > | > > | > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > | > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > | > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > | > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > | > > | > > | > | > | > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > AVG Anti-Virus Users > Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. >

Bette, I saw all the comments about using Export, directly, to create both of the files you want. That is fine as a final step, but what I do first is create a list of those I want in each file using advanced features of search and the Focus feature of PAF. I use the Focus, like several have explained, to create my selection but then I save the list using that feature of the Advanced focus. When I create my export, instead of doing the search then, I use the saved list for the export. I then look at the exported file, in another PAF file, and if I don't like it I go back to the saved focus list and add or subtract from it to create what I want. I may do this several times before I am satisfied with my selection. I just delete the PAF files that didn't work out. You can also use the saved focus list to create reports, including custom reports. You can make these reports before you even create the first PAF file to see if got everyone into your new data base. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 11:06 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > Good Morning, > > I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell me > the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. > Thank you for any help you can give me. > > Bette > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >

EXPORT - I would do EXPORTs and in each export select only the surnames you want in that file. While I haven't done this for surnames, I have done it to break up my file into my father's side and my mother's side of the family. Alan > From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> > Date: 2005/07/05 Tue AM 11:06:50 EDT > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File > > Good Morning, > > I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. > Thank you for any help you can give me. > > Bette > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > >

Bette wrote: >Good Morning, > >I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. >Thank you for any help you can give me. > >Bette > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index >Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! >http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > > If you want to export a portion of the infomation in your paf file select Export from the File menu. Then you get a dialog box where you select which program you are exporting to. Use PAF 5. For the information to Include check all boxes. For Selected Individuals click 'Partial'. The click the Select button. Another larger dialog box will appear. You have now entered the wonderous world of PAF advanced search. The list window can scroll to show all the individuals in your file. As you select individuals they are marked with '>>' on the left edge of the list window. You can select (or deselect) based on relationship to a reference individual (relationship filter) and/or by search for some value in any of many fields (field filter). You'll probably want to experiment with powerful capability but for dividing a file into two surname lines you will want to consider the relationship filter 'All Ancestors Related'. If however the two groups you want to seperate have other intermarriages I think you will have to deselect some individuals after you select with 'All Ancestors Related'. This same selection capability is available for use with reports and for mass deletions.

Alan or anyone, If I go to export, pick my name do I select "Ancestors" or "All Related" I don't want to miss anyone in my family. I only go back 10-11 generations but it is difficult to know who is my family and who is his family when I get past the 6th generation. Thank you. Bette ----- Original Message ----- From: <alanjones10@cox.net> To: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net>; <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File | EXPORT - | I would do EXPORTs and in each export select only the surnames you want in that file. While I haven't done this for surnames, I have done it to break up my file into my father's side and my mother's side of the family. | | Alan | | > From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> | > Date: 2005/07/05 Tue AM 11:06:50 EDT | > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com | > Subject: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF File | > | > Good Morning, | > | > I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. | > Thank you for any help you can give me. | > | > Bette | > | > | > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== | > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index | > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! | > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ | > | > | | |

Good Morning, I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. Thank you for any help you can give me. Bette

I am assuming that for the record with one child, that child is also one of the two in the other record. Either that, or there are actually three children. But in any case, it sounds as if you have two marriages created with the same spouse. The easiest way to correct that would be to write down the RIN's of all the people involved just to be sure you can find them again. If any of the children are duplicates, merge them. Then unlink one of the marriages and any children associated with it. Finally, on the remaining marriage, add any missing children back. Gary Templeman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Robinson" <bvrobins@xtra.co.nz> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 3:49 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Merged > Can any one help please > > I have merged two records of the same person with one that had one sibling with the other they had two in both cases the wife now has the same rin number. If I change the details on one it auto changes the other. As there is eleven generations down I do not want to lose all the details > > How doI get rid of the one record with only one child while keeping the other with the same details except two children > > Brian > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS >

Hi Teddy - If you don't have >too< many people, try this... Start with one person (maybe yourself). Work your way back up their ancestral tree and identify the RIN at each step. Use this as your base pedigree. If this was the first group you added, thos people will usually have the lowest RIN number. Move one generation back. Identify all the children that should be in each couple and start merging them in, one at a time, always to the base set of parents. You will end up with dup parents. Merge one parent and all his/her dups, then merge the other, always working towards that base RIN number parent. At the end, you may have to go back and merge some duplicate children for that couple, but when you do get a 'cleaned-up family', mark them done. The List- Duplicated Individuals, should be a guide, but not absolute. If you accidently identified a person with the wrong gender, you'll have to detach them from any marriages and then change their gender. Then add them back in where appropriate. There is a merge duplicate sources and notes, but it only works if the source is truly duplicate - even an extra blank space will throw you off. PAFInsight, as others have mentioned, will help. You can always clean duplicate notes out of someone. If you attach someone to the wrong place in the tree, just right-click on their link and delete them from the family, not the database. Then use Add Existing to put them back in the right space. Regina Barry * rmbarry1066@earthlink.net * http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rbarry4145/index.htm

Can any one help please I have merged two records of the same person with one that had one sibling with the other they had two in both cases the wife now has the same rin number. If I change the details on one it auto changes the other. As there is eleven generations down I do not want to lose all the details How doI get rid of the one record with only one child while keeping the other with the same details except two children Brian

Teddy, Well done on the upgrade! I am sure you did nothing wrong - the installation will not have touched any paf database where your data is. What is more likely to have happened -- is that the newly installed software is looking at some default directory path to find a paf database and has come up with an old version located somewhere on your pc --- I am quite sure that your previous up-to-date database is still located somewhere on your pc. I would recommend the use of the Tools > Preferences > Folders option to specify the directory paths to be used for each type of file. And when creating paf database files to embed a date in the file name to identify when the file was last updated. Regards, Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] Sent: 03 July 2005 05:54 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] upgraded to 5.2 I upgraded to PAF 5.2 and when I opened the new program I was missing about the last 100 names I had entered. Thankfully as many of you suggested in my previous question I did back-up first and was able to restore. My question is what did I do wrong? Also I have not downloaded the new companion as I am afraid to. Will this cause a problem? thanks Teddy --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== AVG Anti-Virus Users Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.

Melanie Petersen wrote: > I'm getting ready to upload some genealogy files to an online > website. I would like to be able to include the sources in my gedcom > file, but I want to block the repository portion of the source > citation. Is there a way to do this? I have people's private contact > information (I want this for myself) in the repository section, but I > don't want this info. to be online for all to see. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Melanie > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/ > After you create the GEDCOM file you can use WordPad (or any word processor) to edit the GEDCOM file. If you completely remove a repository entry the GEDCOM might become invalid. But you can delete information from the line it is on. Or replace sensitive information win XXXX.

Hi Rollei, I have noticed past posts that advise uninstalling before installing new versions - I have never done it & never had a problem - I believe it is perfectly safe to install over an old version - we are talking program files here and not data files - the new installation version will only ever use the new, newer or identically dated program files to the old version. If it is a worry, a better alternative I believe would be to install the new PAF to a differently named program library (can still access the same paf data file) - and that way you can have immediate access to both versions. Also, this way - if something unforeseen does go wrong with the installation of the new version and you have previously uninstalled the old version - you are well and truly out on a limb with no PAF , old or new, on your pc. If the new version creates a change to the database format - normally handled automatically on first opening of a paf database - a back up of the old database can still be used by the old version (there is no change to database format between 5.1 and 5.2.18). ==== Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Rollei Little [mailto:rollei_little@hotmail.com] Sent: 03 July 2005 02:37 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Match and Merge I would suggest that you uninstall 5.1 before installing 5.2. It is never a good idea to install over the top if it can be helped. The reason being that if there is a problem with the old version, the newer version may not be able to correct it. At least by doing a clean install you will star fresh. Oh, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP First!!!!!!!!!!! Rollei (from Australia) >From: "Stewart Millar" <sm999@tiscali.co.uk> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Match and Merge >Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:32:30 +0100 > >PS - to my first note - It has just registered with me that you say you are >using PAF 5.1 - Do yourself a big favour and update to 5.2 - will do >nothing >for your problem but will save tears in the future - just go to >familysearch.org and download the 5.2 version and install it over the top >of >your existing installation. > >==== Stewart > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] >Sent: 03 July 2005 00:55 >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PAF-5] Match and Merge > >I am new to genealogy and my PAF 5.1 program. Many of my ancestors married >first cousins and I just kept adding the ancestors. So I have a lot of the >same people entered more that once. >Finally I realized that I could just add the ancestor from "existing" >I have tried to match and merge and ended up with a real mess. Double notes >and double parents I know I am doing something wrong but no matter how many >times I have tried I still can't get it right. >Can someone please help me figure this out before I have to delete the >files >and start all over again. Thank-you so much > > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >http://www.familysearch.org/ > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >AVG Anti-Virus Users >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

I would suggest that you uninstall 5.1 before installing 5.2. It is never a good idea to install over the top if it can be helped. The reason being that if there is a problem with the old version, the newer version may not be able to correct it. At least by doing a clean install you will star fresh. Oh, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP First!!!!!!!!!!! Rollei (from Australia) >From: "Stewart Millar" <sm999@tiscali.co.uk> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Match and Merge >Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:32:30 +0100 > >PS - to my first note - It has just registered with me that you say you are >using PAF 5.1 - Do yourself a big favour and update to 5.2 - will do >nothing >for your problem but will save tears in the future - just go to >familysearch.org and download the 5.2 version and install it over the top >of >your existing installation. > >==== Stewart > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] >Sent: 03 July 2005 00:55 >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PAF-5] Match and Merge > >I am new to genealogy and my PAF 5.1 program. Many of my ancestors married >first cousins and I just kept adding the ancestors. So I have a lot of the >same people entered more that once. >Finally I realized that I could just add the ancestor from "existing" >I have tried to match and merge and ended up with a real mess. Double notes >and double parents I know I am doing something wrong but no matter how many >times I have tried I still can't get it right. >Can someone please help me figure this out before I have to delete the >files >and start all over again. Thank-you so much > > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >http://www.familysearch.org/ > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >AVG Anti-Virus Users >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. >

PS - to my first note - It has just registered with me that you say you are using PAF 5.1 - Do yourself a big favour and update to 5.2 - will do nothing for your problem but will save tears in the future - just go to familysearch.org and download the 5.2 version and install it over the top of your existing installation. ==== Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] Sent: 03 July 2005 00:55 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Match and Merge I am new to genealogy and my PAF 5.1 program. Many of my ancestors married first cousins and I just kept adding the ancestors. So I have a lot of the same people entered more that once. Finally I realized that I could just add the ancestor from "existing" I have tried to match and merge and ended up with a real mess. Double notes and double parents I know I am doing something wrong but no matter how many times I have tried I still can't get it right. Can someone please help me figure this out before I have to delete the files and start all over again. Thank-you so much --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service http://www.familysearch.org/

Teddy, Using match and merge in PAF is dangerous without very careful preparation and understanding. In the situation you describe, I would recommend the following: 1. Identify those individuals you have duplicated - note their RIN numbers - decide which RIN of each individual you wish to keep. Usually, but not always, the lower RIN number is the original or first entry of the individual which might be a guide as to which RIN to keep. Consider using the "List" report - Duplicated Individuals - taking care to specify options and advanced options (particularly having zero years difference between birth dates). The report needs to be vetted as it may throw up some "duplications" that are not really duplications, depending on the options selected. 2. For each set of duplications, delete each duplicated individual and as each is deleted add/link into the deleted family position the RIN you have decided to keep. Good luck, Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] Sent: 03 July 2005 00:55 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Match and Merge I am new to genealogy and my PAF 5.1 program. Many of my ancestors married first cousins and I just kept adding the ancestors. So I have a lot of the same people entered more that once. Finally I realized that I could just add the ancestor from "existing" I have tried to match and merge and ended up with a real mess. Double notes and double parents I know I am doing something wrong but no matter how many times I have tried I still can't get it right. Can someone please help me figure this out before I have to delete the files and start all over again. Thank-you so much --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service http://www.familysearch.org/

I upgraded to PAF 5.2 and when I opened the new program I was missing about the last 100 names I had entered. Thankfully as many of you suggested in my previous question I did back-up first and was able to restore. My question is what did I do wrong? Also I have not downloaded the new companion as I am afraid to. Will this cause a problem? thanks Teddy --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football