eliminate double entry

[brlaco]

Hi,
A newbie here, Forgive the ignorance. Just starting to enter mother's data with Mac OSX. I ended up with 1 set of parents entered under 2 different sets of numbers. ( brothers married relatives, etc and I didn't catch it soon enough). I hesitate to just delete one set of entries, not knowing what the long range results would be. Is there an better way to accomplish it or to merge the info. I saw the merge selection, but didn't look like what I wanted. Help. I'm not much better on how to use this website. I hope I do this right and can access any help coming my way.
Thanks,
brlaco

[Howard Metcalfe]

Apr 6, 2011 8:20:42 GMT -5 brlaco said:

Hi,
A newbie here, Forgive the ignorance. Just starting to enter mother's data with Mac OSX. I ended up with 1 set of parents entered under 2 different sets of numbers. ( brothers married relatives, etc and I didn't catch it soon enough). I hesitate to just delete one set of entries, not knowing what the long range results would be. Is there an better way to accomplish it or to merge the info. I saw the merge selection, but didn't look like what I wanted. Help. I'm not much better on how to use this website. I hope I do this right and can access any help coming my way.
Thanks,
brlaco

Hi Briaco,

The simplest way to fix this is to make sure one set of parents has all the correct information, notes, children and parents. Then delete each of the other parents. Hopefully the other parents don't yet have parents or children.

If you feel uncomfortable doing this yourself, send me your data file as an attachment to an email and tell me who are the people in question, and I will try to do this for you and send the fixed file back to you.

Since getting rid of duplicates can be very complex in some cases, please make sure you don't make the same error again.

Best regards,
Howard
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