There is a VERY easy solution to this problem. Take your PAF 5 database to your local FHC, and use PAF Insight on a your database. I purchased PAF Insight (found at ohanasoftware.com) and regularly do this to others databases.. It merges better than PAF, and allows for changing RINs too. It's nice to buy for yourself but they offer it free to the FHCs. It has some other nice features.. but I am sure people can tell that I am a big fan of the product! Alan On Dec 7, 2007 10:38 PM, Val Olds <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've encountered this in the past with my data. Assuming that > for the two marriages, both husbands had the same RIN and both wives had > the same RIN, I reviewed both marriages to make sure that all the > children in both listed marriages have been identified into the one > marriage (in some cases I had to add the child manually) that I wanted > to retain. I also validated the date, place information for the > marriage was correct as well on the marriage I wanted to retain. Once > the children and the marriage information was correct, I then simply > deleted the marriage I wanted to get rid of. This resulted in not > merging the two marriages, but ultimately resulted in just the one > marriage for the husband and wife that I wanted in the first place.