Gary, IT WORKED!!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I created a new database: my mother's name (Experimental) and imported her entire one into the experimenal one. Then I did a Merge Duplicate Sources and Citations. My # of sources went from 1,550 down to 102. I spot checked a number of sources for burial places, knowing that they would vary a lot, and found that the Source Titles were correct and Citation Detail entries were all different and correct. Thanks you again. I made one additional discovery. The same source/citation detail entries are repeated several times on each person. The # of times seems to be related to the # of times that person was match/merged. It's going to take quite a while to go through the entire file to delete the duplicates, but I can deal with that now that I know the data is all correct. This whole list membership is very helpful to all of us. Thanks to all of you who responded. Dick Cazier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Templeman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Source info-exporting from one file & importingintoanother file > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dick Cazier" <[email protected]> > 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. > > Well, anytime an issue like this comes up, an easy way to tell is to make > a > copy of the database file, and then simply try it on the copy. If it works > then delete the original. If it doesn't, delete the copy. > > Gary Templeman > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >