I appear to have stumbled on an irritating "feature" as part of merging people. Hoping that someone has further advice.
(This is separate from the persisting loss of Source #'s on some Facts (not all) when merging 2 people)
I am matching and merging 2 Reunion files. One, "A", is the "main" file. The other, "B", contains people with their date of birth information and appropriate sources, and their parents. I've imported "B" into "A", such that the people originally in "A" are marked and those from "B" are not.
The objective is then to Match & Merge so that people in file "A" get information from "B" copied into them. To increase the "hit" rate for a blind Match & Merge, I first manually merge the parents. Yes, that does leave me with 2 person items per child but I merge these later. To be sure, the parents in "B" have no marriage information associated with them, other than the existence of the family record.
Now, what happens is the following. Sometimes, but not always, when I merge the parents – dragging a person who came from "B" from the People sidebar onto the displayed person from "A" – the marriage information disappears. "Pooooofffffff". Date, Place, Source... all gone. This happens sometimes... but certainly not always. When it does, however, the display will always jump back to the previous couple.
Not that jumping back to the previous couple means the information is erased automatically. Sometimes, after merging, it just jumps back, leaving the information intact. (Why it jumps back is also beyond me).
I've made the irritating habit of checking the Source #'s of the marriage before merging, so that I have a way to restore the erased information, but it remains baffling and irritating nonetheless. I purposely merge this by hand because if I do this using Match & Merge, I can't tell where information has been lost – but I do know it gets lost.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this. Records in "A" are all created and modified before the records in "B".
Any ideas?
(This is separate from the persisting loss of Source #'s on some Facts (not all) when merging 2 people)
I am matching and merging 2 Reunion files. One, "A", is the "main" file. The other, "B", contains people with their date of birth information and appropriate sources, and their parents. I've imported "B" into "A", such that the people originally in "A" are marked and those from "B" are not.
The objective is then to Match & Merge so that people in file "A" get information from "B" copied into them. To increase the "hit" rate for a blind Match & Merge, I first manually merge the parents. Yes, that does leave me with 2 person items per child but I merge these later. To be sure, the parents in "B" have no marriage information associated with them, other than the existence of the family record.
Now, what happens is the following. Sometimes, but not always, when I merge the parents – dragging a person who came from "B" from the People sidebar onto the displayed person from "A" – the marriage information disappears. "Pooooofffffff". Date, Place, Source... all gone. This happens sometimes... but certainly not always. When it does, however, the display will always jump back to the previous couple.
Not that jumping back to the previous couple means the information is erased automatically. Sometimes, after merging, it just jumps back, leaving the information intact. (Why it jumps back is also beyond me).
I've made the irritating habit of checking the Source #'s of the marriage before merging, so that I have a way to restore the erased information, but it remains baffling and irritating nonetheless. I purposely merge this by hand because if I do this using Match & Merge, I can't tell where information has been lost – but I do know it gets lost.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this. Records in "A" are all created and modified before the records in "B".
Any ideas?