Uhhh ... I'm not sure I understand what you think I said? (g) I'll try PAFI ... not much to lose, I guess. Thanks, Stewart. Cheryl Stewart Millar wrote: > Despite a seeming lifetime of use of PAF - merging in basic PAF fills me > with dread and I have rarely got it right - and never really know why I got > it right or more often when - and I have - had similar results to you with > merged marriages. > > I now do any PAF merging in PAFInsight - which gets it right every time. > > Remember - essentially you are merging individuals (not marriages) - if the > merged individuals have been married to different people - you will get > correctly, multiple marriages - however, if the merged individuals have from > their respective different databases been married to the same individual - > the result will be multiple marriages to the same individual & corresponding > multiple children. In such cases care must be taken to ensure that the two > merged records are not married to the same spouse. > > The above paragraph may take some unravelling - but use PAFInsight - it's > easier. > > Regards, > Stewart > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of singhals > Sent: 07 December 2007 02:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PAF-5] Can I merge marriages? > > I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no > question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. > > Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in > numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is > there a way to merge the marriage records? > > (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db > floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses > seems to result in duplicate children which then also need > merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) > > If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? > > Cheryl > -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.