There are a number of ways to accomplish what you need. First though, don't worry about the RINs. Those are numbers the program creates to identify the records, but they can and will change as you add and delete people. They should not be considered some kind of permanent identifier. What I would do is start another new PAF file. From the other ones, create gedcom file exports of the good portions of each one. So from your wife's old file you would export her, her current family and descendents, her parents family, her father's ancestor line, etc. You would EXCLUDE the incomplete line from grandma back. From the file created from the cousin you would ONLY export from that grandma back and exclude his father's line. Import those two gedcoms into the new file. As long as you have grandma's family in common in each one then you simply merge the duplicates. If anyone at the junction point is only in there once you might need to link up their relationship. If you screw up and happen to miss a few you can manually enter them if you want, but *anyone* who is in the original databases can be transferred by way of gedcom. It is just a matter or selecting the ones you want and excluding the rest. Gary Templeman ----- Original Message ----- From: <JEAorMHA@aol.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:33 PM Subject: [PAF-5] Combining two PAF-5 files? > > From: _JEAorMHA@aol.com_ (mailto:JEAorMHA@aol.com) > To: _PAF-5-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com_ > (mailto:PAF-5-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com) > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:29 AM > Subject: Combining two PAF-5 files? > > Can two PAF5 files be combined, I am not referring to individual records? > > There was an original file created for my wife's family, including both > her father's and mother's lines. Her father's line is much more complete. > Her > mother's line has a couple of hundred names, created from a pedigree chart > and does not include notes. Recently, a cousin sent a gedcom file which I > entered as a separate PAF 5 file, which contained his father's line as well > as > his mothers, the latter being the same as my wife's mothers, from their > grandmothers back. His information is much more complete, and contains > notes. > > The question is. Is there a way to disconnect the information beginning > with my wife's grandmother from her PAF 5 file and connect the information > beginning with my wife's grandmother from his PAF 5 file to hers, retaining > all > the info for her father's line? > We do not want his father's info connected, since that is not her line. > > If it can be gone, what about the RINS? His are different than my wife's > for the same individual. > > Maybe this is too complex a thing to do but I would like someone > knowledgeable to say so. > > If it can't be done, then is the only way to get his info into my wife's > files, to reenter from the keyboard person by person? This will be a time > consuming task. > I would appreciate help. > Thank you. > John > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS >