I would export my own family into a separate RM database by either gedcom or a drag and drop into a new database. Then I would have 2 databases, one for my own family and one for everyone else. I would find it very difficult to work on my family research with that many unrelated people in the database even if I had my family members color coded all the same color. Just selecting people for reports to be restricted to family every time would waste of a lot of time. Laura --------- *From:* José Verheecke <jose.verheecke@telenet.be> *Subject:* Re: [RMagic] Maximum Size for a RootsMagic -database *Date:* Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:08:59 +0100 *References:* <3A92F72AC10A4099B9A300214CC0695E@JosePC ><9A79E87112604F7F8748BE7742DA198B@toshiba> *In-Reply-To:* <9A79E87112604F7F8748BE7742DA198B@toshiba> ......my own family is but a very small part of my main file,which contains the combined ancestry of most of Europe's crowned heads, American presidents,movie stars (and so on),descendants of king James I/VI of England/Scotland and the genealogists who study all of that.Is it all proven? I spend my days adding,correcting &reviewing data. Well,there is allso a 'fun part' in my file (Irish kinds,Biblical lineages and other hallucinations) -I don't believe anything of it...... José