Thank you all for your help. You have given me a lot to think about. I have been updating and making correction in our PAF. My husband and I have our own computers; I thought it would be faster if we both work on our own surnames. After I accomplish this (if I do), his "Kushner" line would be updated and so would my file but not together. I really like easy, and I cannot see how it would be easy to put our data back together. Thank you again so much for all your help. Bette

Bette, If you start with your data in PAF 5.0, each person you have in your file will have a unique identifier, the UIC. As you and your husband, using PAF, work on files derived from the original PAF data and are careful not to delete or combine or merge away the original "person" when it comes time to combine your files again you can merge and identify the "duplicates" by their identical UIC numbers. One of the options in match/merge is to look for identical UICs. Don't lose hope about merging. The UIC was created to make it easier to merge back split data bases. If the persons have not been changed you can let the system merge them automatically. If there are differences, you can then decide how to combine the differing data. I use this feature when I split a small part of my data base to work on it. When I am finished, I then use this feature to combine my data back into my main data base. Works like a charm. :-) Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette" <nobia@centurytel.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF Files > Thank you all for your help. You have given me a lot to think about. > I have been updating and making correction in our PAF. My husband and I > have our own computers; I thought it would be faster if we both work on > our own surnames. > > After I accomplish this (if I do), his "Kushner" line would be updated and > so would my file but not together. I really like easy, and I cannot see > how it would be easy to put our data back together. > > Thank you again so much for all your help. > > Bette > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > AVG Anti-Virus Users > Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. >