Maureen When you do this for the duplicate man the families will be merged BUT anybody that appears in both families will appear twice in the merged family - instead of having one wife he'll have two wives (one from each original family), etc. You will also need to merge these duplicates together to get back to a single family. David -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alan Wood Sent: Sunday, 23 September 2012 6:03 AM To: Maureen Ellen; rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Merging a person and his family Maureen, Use Tools, Merge, Manual Merge and select the two versions of your duplicate man to merge. Alan On 9/21/2012 11:51 PM, Maureen Ellen wrote: > Thank you for your reply Jon, > > I'm sorry that I didn't make my posting clearer. I should have said that I must have entered this man twice (at different times), he has two different record numbers, and I must have entered different details on the two occasions, i.e. His parents and childen on one but not his grandchildren and his children and grandchildren on the other without entering his parents and their details. > > Maureen > > > > From: Jon Czarowitz <czarowitz@gmail.com> > To: Maureen Ellen <maureen.ellen@rocketmail.com>; > rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, 22 September 2012 12:21 PM > Subject: Re: [RMagic] Merging a person and his family > > > Maureen > This may not be a duplicate, but 2 views. > Go to tools and click on merge/manual. > Select his name, but look above and below him for the same name. > If there is none than it is not duplicated. > The views you describe can be from the descendant view with him highlighted and the number of generations selected to include Grandchildren. The other view is with his parent highlighted and only 3 generations on the slide bar. > Jon > *** > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Maureen Ellen <maureen.ellen@rocketmail.com> wrote: > > I find that I have duplicate entries for one man on my list. >> >> Entry A shows his wife and his children, his children's spouses and his grandchildren but not his parents. >> >> Entry B shows his parents, his wife and his children but not his grandchildren. >> >> I would be grateful for advice about how to deal with this. If I merge the two entries for the man will I then have the details of all four generations on one entry or is there some other way I should try to solve this so that I don't lose any of the information. >> >> Sorry to be so 'needy' but I am a very new user of Rootsmagic. >> >> Many thanks, >> Maureen >> >> >> =================================== >> RM list Archives: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: >> http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message