Stewart, What or how would you copy the "Source Title". I have always "selected" for title but I do used the "memorize citation" for the next part. Will this be OK. As long as - in creating each source citation you do nothing to enter any details into any of the "Source Title" fields and in using a "Source Title" you have "Selected" it and not "Copied" it. What or how would you copy the "Source Title". I have always "selected" for title but I do used the "memorize citation" for the next part. Will this be OK. Mildred in Oregon Stewart Millar wrote: > Dick, > > >From your description of how you have used "Source Titles" and "Source > Citations" it would seem you have used them correctly, i.e., each source > title to have multiple citation detailed entries. > > As long as - in creating each source citation you do nothing to enter any > details into any of the "Source Title" fields and in using a "Source Title" > you have "Selected" it and not "Copied" it. > > I have used gedcom import/export many times and have never had the result > you described - in every case, my single source title and multiple citation > entries have been preserved exactly as per the original. > > This doesn't help you - but I am forced to say the problem is not with paf > import/export. > > I would give the "Merge Duplicate Sources and Citations" a go - on a test > data base of course. > > Regards, > Stewart > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dick Cazier > Sent: 29 March 2008 23:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PAF-5] Source info-exporting from one file & importing into > another file > > I have just created a new file for my family, exporting data from a Master > File I started when I first started research. The Master File is now about > 32,000 individuals and includes many, many people who are not remotely > related to me. I included neighbors of my ancestors, thinking that I might > develop new marriage ties. Way back when people never went very far to find > spouses. > > I'm now starting a new file that includes only those folks who are related > to me, either by blood or by marriage. I'm doing it by export from the > Master and importing into the new file. That's were my source data problems > starts. > > Because of the size of the Master File, I developed a method of using a > single source title for a given source. This was done so my Source List > would not contain thousands of entries. An example is marriage records. I > entered only a few source titles for it; like Marriage Records, DeWitt > County, IL. I titled it this way, completed everything except the Citation > Detail section and saved it. Then, when I found a new individual who was > married there, I brought up that source and completed the Citation Detail > section; copy of the marriage license (if I got it) or the Marriage Index, > including Book & Page # where the license was located. Since I have over a > hundred marriages in that county, I was able to have only one source title, > rather than over 100, in my source list. I did the same with almost all of > my sources, such as death records, cemetery headstone readings, census > records, etc. This limited my source list to about 400 titles, rather than > over 100,000 (assuming 3! > sources for each person and I know it would be a lot more that 3 per > person). > > This is the problem. After the export/import, the new file has 1550 entries > on the Source List for a file that has only 3200 people in it. That is 400 > titles for 32,000 names vs. 1,550 titles for on 3,200 people. > > I've figured out what happened. For the individuals exported/imported, each > source was imported as a new source title; (i.e. everyone with a marriage in > DeWitt County in the Master File(about 100 of them) had 1 Source title, with > different Citation Details for each) and in the new database that came out > to about 100 source titles, all the same Title and the individual citation > details. When I go to Edit the Source List, I can't figure out which Source > goes with which individual. Even if I could, I can't figure a way to get > all 100 of them down to a single title with 100 different citation detail > entries. I'm not sure if merging sources will merge all entries with the > same title and repository. If it does then the source on everyone will have > the same citation detail and only 1 of the 100 will be correct. If it > merges them only when the title, repository and citation detail match, then > I'll still have the 100 source titles in my source list. > > I hope this explanation of my problem is coherent and understandable. Can > someone explain to me how I can get the new database to have only one > Marriage Records for DeWitt County in the new database file Source List and > still have the correct Citation Detail in the individual records for folks > married in the county? The problem exists for almost every source title in > Master File database. > > Thanks for any help I can get. > Dick Cazier > Lakewood, CO > > >