Joe, Two comments. You might be more comfortable with FTM doing your split since you know how that program works. On the other hand, if you need to learn PAF, there is no better way than using it to split your data and find all the features that PAF has for the operation. If you are going to have several data bases and make changes in each and expect to combine them later, PAF is the only way to go, with its Unique identifiers. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: "thehornguy" <thehornguy@bellsouth.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Dividing my PAF Files > > Hello, Walt an others!! > > I very much appreciate your comments in the message with that subject line > shown above!! > > One of my own 'stumbling places' (after I had got a considerable amount of > data already in-put) with FTW was that I later decided I wanted to operate > with at least four data-base groups, as one person suggested, with my four > sets of GP couples. > > Now, I have also decided to take the FTW GEDCOM (In separate parts, if > possible) and transfer them into the PAF 5.2, one of the four GP couples > (plus the data for their ancestor group) at a time. > > I have not become very familiar with the PAF in-putting process, yet, so > there is still a good bit of 'learning curve' for me to get through. > > Is it better to do the GEDCOM, import it, and then split it into four > separate data-bases, or to split them into four before making the GEDCOM > files for transport?? Or, perhaps, the real question is, at which point > in the import process do (should) I make the four data-bases separate?? > And will that be easy to work with, or not, in the PAF system?? > > I appreciate all this chatting about the PAF, and am saving the entries > which seem to be most useful for me, so that I can go back and look them > over, as I go along. > > Thanks for your comments below, and before, and also now!! > > Joe DUKE > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <PAF-5-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <PAF-5-USERS-D@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:04 AM > Subject: PAF-5-USERS-D Digest V05 #134 > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/ > >