Double parents is usually caused by having two copies of the individual, with a separate but mostly identical set of parents for each individual. When you merge the individual, you then have two sets of parents. The next step is to merge the two fathers and the two mothers. That should take care of that problem. How notes are merged depends on the "Combine Notes" option in Match/Merge. I noticed that you said you have PAF 5.1. The latest version of PAF is 5.2.18. If that is not the version you are using, you should go to www.familysearch.org and get the latest. There are some significant bug fixes. For an easier time with merging, you might want to consider using PAF Insight. Aloha, John -----Original Message----- From: Teddy Markhart [mailto:foxfordgrad@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 1:55 PM 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/