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 ------------------------------- 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