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Hi,
I'm very confused. I use www.genesreunited.co.uk to share trees with other people and generally research; I've been trying out genopro to manipulate, lay out, and print the trees more easily.
When I import a gedcom file from genesreunited into an existing tree within genopro, it creates loads of duplicate individuals - even though in the gedcom file they all have the same IDs. Genopro seems to know they are duplicates, as it just gives them blank IDs.
I expected the duplicate IDs to flag up a warning, and update the details of existing individuals, but that doesn't happen at all.
I expect to do this quite often, and don't want the headache of manually removing bits all the time. How can I achieve this?
Thanks
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GenoPro can have duplicate versions of the same person eg when moved to a different GenoMap. However when you import a gedcom into that file it will create new individuals. It does not know whether this is the same as an existing individual or someone with similar name/details.
One of the requests on the wish list is for a merge feature but I suspect this is well down the list, particularly as it is not an easy task to get absolutely correct. After all you do not want to merge data if the individuals are not the same. You know if that is the case but try telling it to a computer - automatically.
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| It seems that the hyperlink tool should be a way to tell the computer that. Import onto one tab, select a "pivot" person, then point to the same person on another tab and form the hyperlink. Then tell the program to move the contents from the first sheet to the second based on that hyperlink, thus removing the first sheet and also the hyperlink. The result is a human-controlled merge. With "undo" enabled, this should be pretty fool proof.
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Yes. Sort of.
I use the hyperlink where I have the record of a marriage in one place and a birth in another. By having a duplicate on one GenoMap linked by an Emotional Relation line you can indicate where you think the people are the same.
However having the program merge the data is not straightforward. Think of a death record giving one date of birth and a baptism having a different date. More common will be different spellings, particularly of surnames, at different times. One of my ancestors name was spelled in 4 different ways in his life time
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