thehornguy wrote: >Hello, all you X-perts and those two who are new, like me!! > >I have imported two different data-base files from another program by >GEDCOM, and they have both come through it well. >So far as the families in them are concerned, they do over-lap, however, and >now, I want to merge or 'meld' them together in my new PAF 5 system. > >The 'Merge' command appears to work only with one person at a time, but I >wanted to do the whole thing in one 'swell foop'!! >Is there a way to do it, or am I hoping for too much!!?!?!? > >Any suggestions are welcome!! >Joe DUKE > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <PAF-5-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com> >To: <PAF-5-USERS-D@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 6:00 AM >Subject: PAF-5-USERS-D Digest V05 #174 > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > > Broadly speaking there is not. I have made several starts on a program that would do weighted matching including matching relationship scores as part of the match score for an individual. But I have never finished the program. I had a PAF4 version that would do the matching and plant fake AFNs so that PAF could merge them on a wholesale basis but I never got the merge part built into my program. I was going to have it save the differences in notes so there would be no info lost. Once you have the data merged, if you split it or send a copy to someone else and they send back the whole thing with their modifications, there is a way to re-merge everything that is unmodified. But 'no' there is no way to match everybody up unless they all have AFNs. If they have AFNs or UIDs and are EXACT matches you can get merge to zip them all together in one fell swoop.