I would suggest that you uninstall 5.1 before installing 5.2. It is never a good idea to install over the top if it can be helped. The reason being that if there is a problem with the old version, the newer version may not be able to correct it. At least by doing a clean install you will star fresh. Oh, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP First!!!!!!!!!!! Rollei (from Australia) >From: "Stewart Millar" <sm999@tiscali.co.uk> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Match and Merge >Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:32:30 +0100 > >PS - to my first note - It has just registered with me that you say you are >using PAF 5.1 - Do yourself a big favour and update to 5.2 - will do >nothing >for your problem but will save tears in the future - just go to >familysearch.org and download the 5.2 version and install it over the top >of >your existing installation. > >==== Stewart > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] >Sent: 03 July 2005 00:55 >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PAF-5] Match and Merge > >I am new to genealogy and my PAF 5.1 program. Many of my ancestors married >first cousins and I just kept adding the ancestors. So I have a lot of the >same people entered more that once. >Finally I realized that I could just add the ancestor from "existing" >I have tried to match and merge and ended up with a real mess. Double notes >and double parents I know I am doing something wrong but no matter how many >times I have tried I still can't get it right. >Can someone please help me figure this out before I have to delete the >files >and start all over again. Thank-you so much > > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >http://www.familysearch.org/ > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >AVG Anti-Virus Users >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. >

Hi Rollei, I have noticed past posts that advise uninstalling before installing new versions - I have never done it & never had a problem - I believe it is perfectly safe to install over an old version - we are talking program files here and not data files - the new installation version will only ever use the new, newer or identically dated program files to the old version. If it is a worry, a better alternative I believe would be to install the new PAF to a differently named program library (can still access the same paf data file) - and that way you can have immediate access to both versions. Also, this way - if something unforeseen does go wrong with the installation of the new version and you have previously uninstalled the old version - you are well and truly out on a limb with no PAF , old or new, on your pc. If the new version creates a change to the database format - normally handled automatically on first opening of a paf database - a back up of the old database can still be used by the old version (there is no change to database format between 5.1 and 5.2.18). ==== Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Rollei Little [mailto:rollei_little@hotmail.com] Sent: 03 July 2005 02:37 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Match and Merge I would suggest that you uninstall 5.1 before installing 5.2. It is never a good idea to install over the top if it can be helped. The reason being that if there is a problem with the old version, the newer version may not be able to correct it. At least by doing a clean install you will star fresh. Oh, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP First!!!!!!!!!!! Rollei (from Australia) >From: "Stewart Millar" <sm999@tiscali.co.uk> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Match and Merge >Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:32:30 +0100 > >PS - to my first note - It has just registered with me that you say you are >using PAF 5.1 - Do yourself a big favour and update to 5.2 - will do >nothing >for your problem but will save tears in the future - just go to >familysearch.org and download the 5.2 version and install it over the top >of >your existing installation. > >==== Stewart > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] >Sent: 03 July 2005 00:55 >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PAF-5] Match and Merge > >I am new to genealogy and my PAF 5.1 program. Many of my ancestors married >first cousins and I just kept adding the ancestors. So I have a lot of the >same people entered more that once. >Finally I realized that I could just add the ancestor from "existing" >I have tried to match and merge and ended up with a real mess. Double notes >and double parents I know I am doing something wrong but no matter how many >times I have tried I still can't get it right. >Can someone please help me figure this out before I have to delete the >files >and start all over again. Thank-you so much > > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >http://www.familysearch.org/ > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >AVG Anti-Virus Users >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/