jimlambeth

Thank you both. It does seem like finding an easy way to isolate the individuals with changes is the only angle, and that would be something at the GEDCOM level, or in the other program. I had wondered about some from of text compare, Michael. I do understand the data integrity issues ... I've messed that up several times. Fortunately I've had good backups each time - or have tried something in a test instance. Best of all though - I don't feel like I don't "get it" any more. Mosting I can't figure it out because it's not terribly practical. Thanks!

I've search the forums and not found this scenario. In fact, in my years as an amateur genealogist - I've never seen a clear description of this (either specific to a piece of software - or at a higher, conceptual level). I think it's best explained by example: - I wish to export my TMG data to another program, for a couple reasons: 1) Another program has a convienent search mechanism (for example, Ancestry.com) 2) Another program is more portable (an old example was taking my Treo to the library, rather than the whole laptop ...) - At some point, I wish to merge CHANGES back into my main TMG project, and file. How the heck do I do this? I'm not particularly into doing a full "find duplicate people" against the 6000+ (x2?) people in my data set each time. Ugly, time consuming, and prone to stooper induced errors. I feel like there's something basic that I'm not "getting" here. I'm not even sure my questions are right ... but here at stab at it: - Can I, somehow, delete/remove the non-changed records before reimporting/merging the "updated" data set? - Is there something automated (perhaps using those darn reference numbers) that would make merging back in more automated? People have tried explaining this to me before (I think) - but I just didn't understand. I once had a Palm program that flagged changed records ... had I been able to Delete the non-changed records (I couldn't) ... I'd have exactly what I'm looking for here. Basically, can I pair down the import file to just chaged records, or can I better automate a mass merge of large, similiar files. I can't be the only one the wishes to occassionally push data out to another program, and then bring it back. TMG is my home base - but not my only tool. What am I missing here? I'm probably going to need a remedial explanation. Referrals to reading material gladly accepted!

I've searched in Help and here on line without success - but I must be searching incorrectly. Is there any way to customize the "Search the Web" function? I'd love to be able to configure where it searches ... etc. I expected to find an INI file ... but no luck.