Unfortunately, there's no foolproof way for the software to identify duplicates with 100% certainty, so Dee's advice is probably the best approach. It may be tedious, but it's better than merging two records that have a difference you might not see which later turn out to really be two different people! Dave Liesse On 1/19/2017 08:37, Dee Dee King wrote: > Try to merge again, then click the manual option to go one by one through those remaining. However, any time you merge there may be lost data. > > Dee > >> On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Eva Goodwin <edwgoodwin@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> I recently had to combine 9 different FTM databases from a client into a >> single database as part of a big clean-up project. Although I told the >> program to merge duplicates, I've still wound up with often 7-8 of the >> exact same person. I don't know of any other way to merge these duplicates >> other than going one at a time, which will take HOURS in a 1,000+ person >> tree. >> >> Does anyone know how I can merge 7-8 duplicates all at once? Or any other >> way around this annoying problem? >> >> Thank you! >> >> Eva >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Eva, If you have FTM 2014 you can export specific branches and then combine them into one tree. Ann Gilchrest -----Original Message----- From: TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM [mailto:transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dave Liesse Sent: 19 January, 2017 12:55 To: transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TGF] Mass merges in Family Tree Maker? Unfortunately, there's no foolproof way for the software to identify duplicates with 100% certainty, so Dee's advice is probably the best approach. It may be tedious, but it's better than merging two records that have a difference you might not see which later turn out to really be two different people! Dave Liesse On 1/19/2017 08:37, Dee Dee King wrote: > Try to merge again, then click the manual option to go one by one through those remaining. However, any time you merge there may be lost data. > > Dee > >> On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Eva Goodwin <edwgoodwin@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> I recently had to combine 9 different FTM databases from a client >> into a single database as part of a big clean-up project. Although I >> told the program to merge duplicates, I've still wound up with often >> 7-8 of the exact same person. I don't know of any other way to merge >> these duplicates other than going one at a time, which will take >> HOURS in a 1,000+ person tree. >> >> Does anyone know how I can merge 7-8 duplicates all at once? Or any >> other way around this annoying problem? >> >> Thank you! >> >> Eva