Just a warning.... I wanted to tidy up my sources so I carefully arranged them so that they looked something like this: [BOOK] History of Cuyahoga County [DEATH] Necrology Index [CENSUS] 1880 Federal Census [CENSUS] 1890 Federal Census You get the picture. Generic headings where I could use more detail in the citation to describe the item. Anyway, upon importing several gedcoms from people that didn't follow any particular convention and finding that there were a lot of duplicates, I chose to do a 'source merge'. This is where the disaster occurred. ALL of the sources that had brackets have disappeared! Gone! Poof! Not to be seen again. So take this as a warning that there must be something in the code of the merge routine that chokes on brackets or other odd characters that are the start of a source title and spits them out as unusable. Then are no longer in your source list. And, in this case, I can't go back to a backup, because I had no idea this occurred until recently. Sandy
Hi Sandy, I entered a bunch of source list items following your format and ran the merge sources. The bracketed sources still remain in the list. I suspect that there is something else that caused the disappearance of those sources. Richard Rands At 12:28 PM 6/15/2005 -0400, Sandy Rozhon wrote: >Just a warning.... > >I wanted to tidy up my sources so I carefully arranged them so that >they looked something like this: > >[BOOK] History of Cuyahoga County >[DEATH] Necrology Index >[CENSUS] 1880 Federal Census >[CENSUS] 1890 Federal Census > >You get the picture. Generic headings where I could use more detail >in the citation to describe the item. > >Anyway, upon importing several gedcoms from people that didn't follow >any particular convention and finding that there were a lot of >duplicates, I chose to do a 'source merge'. This is where the >disaster occurred. ALL of the sources that had brackets have >disappeared! Gone! Poof! Not to be seen again. > >So take this as a warning that there must be something in the code of >the merge routine that chokes on brackets or other odd characters >that are the start of a source title and spits them out as unusable. >Then are no longer in your source list. > >And, in this case, I can't go back to a backup, because I had no idea > this occurred until recently. > >Sandy > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/