I've recently been adding some people who are currently not connected to my main tree, but might be in future. One group of these (father and two daughters, plus spouses) shows up in the Count Trees window with the name of one of the daughters, but I would prefer it to have the father's name. Having read previous posts here and on the RM forum I understand that this is because I entered the daughter first, so she has a lower record number - but I wish I'd known that first. In this case I might actually delete them and re-enter them as there are only a few of them with very few events, but I wish there could be a way of renaming these unattached trees without deleting and re-entering - either by renaming the tree or by tweaking the record numbers so that the desired person had the lowest one. As a workaround, though, I'm wondering: if I removed these people from the database and then put them back in, either by drag-and-drop to a new database and then merging again, or by GEDCOM export followed by deletion and re-importing, whose name would the tree have then? Or, to put it another way, when people are removed from the database, do their record numbers stay the same? Or, could I manipulate them to a desired order by, say, unlinking the father and moving him first so that he would be the first person in the new database, and then adding the rest of the family and re-linking etc? Arthur

On the assumption that the lowest record in a tree names it, you could drag and drop the father to a new database and then his spouse and her descendants and spouses to the new tree and re-link her to the father. Make sure that that tree is as it was in the original database but with the father's name and then delete its members from the original (you will have made a backup first!). Drag and drop everyone (select the Everyone option) from the new database to the bigger one. Should work but I have not tested it. Tom