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A site search for "deleting duplicates" only results in three posts. I have three books on TMG, the master genealogist users guide (for version 5), geting the most out of TMG, and a pdf (I cant find at the minute). If I am searching for the wrong terms, or there are chapters, pages etc you could direct me too, that's appreciated as well I've had TMG for well over ten years probably closer to 15 (now version 7), however I have never quite gotten the grasp of it. I have added and added dta sets through the years, lost some, etc. I am moving to a family farm soon and (ironically) will have access to genealogy groups, etc. for the first time in years (my current county has about 3 people per square mile and the counties nearby arent much more populated) so hopefully my research will pick up then. I just got TMG set up on my desktop and laptop and am experiencing the following. If anyone has any advice on these duplicates please advise. I met a relative online in Florida that is making alot of progress on my line and I am trying to clean up my file before converting it to gedcom for him. I would really appreciate it if someone that understood what was happening would break up the below lines and give me a quick explanation of each When I search for myself, I get two responses for me. In the drop down list above this result list it says search all data sets. However, both entries for myself have the same ID number. what does this mean? Apparently I have two entries in the same data set? The above mentioned drop down list gives me 3 options: all data sets, all unlocked data sets, and one named data set, "1: (Surname)2003imported on29oct2003" (I have since (2008) married and have two sons, and my wife and sons are also associated to my name in the results. and I have backed them up several times) how can I tell the name of the data set associated with an individual? One of the results for me has an asterisk, the other doesn't. My parents associated with the entries for me also have the same ID numbers (in both trees my father is 3653 and my mother is 4290. My father and I have the same name, (I am a jr) so the search for my name name shows his just below. He also has two entries below mine. Except he has two different IDs listed. One is the above 3653, the other is 8175.Both of them are asterisked as primary. When I follow each of them, they both have me listed as son. When I search for Southey (surname), I get two results, both asterisked as primary, and with different IDs (3175 and 8245). 3715 doesnt have a father, 8245 does (William). (William is the first of my american line I believe, he's the first in my files at any rate) When I follow Williams descendants down three generations, (southey, jessie, charles everett) I have no duplicates until charles everett. He had ten children. On his family page, on the person view, it shows a duplicate for Robert Edwin (my great grandfather). Both are the same ID number (626).However the children pane shows 11 children, doesnt duplicate Robert Edwin, but does duplicate Jessie Arthur, one entry giving him the ID 3639, and the other entry doesnt even have an ID. this is just an example of what i am facing. one more thing. Everytime I start up TMG, I have to click through about a dozen error windows (ignoring them). Then it starts and appears to be fine. here are the following errors the first error is exhibits folder not found. do I want to use the default exhibit folder. I have to answer no then click ignore through the following files not being found 59 appobjectshow 61, 62 , 64, 65 ,67, 68, 69, 72, 75, 77, 78, 79 all appobjectshow Sorry if this should be more than one thread, once I got going I couldnt stop