Comments on: How To Merge Data from One iFamily for Leopard Database to Another http://genealogytools.com/how-to-merge-data-from-one-ifamily-for-leopard-database-to-another/ Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay Mills http://genealogytools.com/how-to-merge-data-from-one-ifamily-for-leopard-database-to-another/#comment-467 Jay Mills Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:17:23 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=576#comment-467 I must be doing something wrong. I want to copy descendants from one data base to another. I tried two methods and neither did what I wanted: Method One: Left click the father in the source data base Right clicked the same person in the target database Selecting merge properties Selected the desired source file The window which opened showed the kids in the source database I wanted to move to the Target data base but does not provide an arrow for that section of the form although it does for all the other data windows. There's also a plus sign but no means to move a marriage over, no arrow. If I select the plus sign I get the message: Unable to find an event of type MARR in target database into which to merge the source data. But that's what I want to put there the fact they got married and the date. Mystery. Method II Create a fictive father of the father in the source data base. Left click the new guy in the source Right click the father ghost box of the father Up pops the copy person from ,.... box Click included ancestors and their spouses so I cant get the descendents and click that Click select all click copy Click backup to make that go away window pops up saying, "Please ensure that both the child and the parent have a valid birth year - they may be approximate dates." I do nothing about this because I have no dates to enter, just names. Do we have to have a birth date to enter someone? Clicked OK even though I didn't fix the date issue. It then tells me: "0 people were copied to the target model. Inspect the changes and if necessary you can invoke Undo." I click OK b/c not ok is not an option. How does one merge descendants successfully? I must be doing something wrong.
I want to copy descendants from one data base to another.
I tried two methods and neither did what I wanted:
Method One:
Left click the father in the source data base
Right clicked the same person in the target database
Selecting merge properties
Selected the desired source file
The window which opened showed the kids in the source database I wanted to move to the Target data base but does not provide an arrow for that section of the form although it does for all the other data windows. There’s also a plus sign but no means to move a marriage over, no arrow. If I select the plus sign I get the message: Unable to find an event of type MARR in target database into which to merge the source data. But that’s what I want to put there the fact they got married and the date. Mystery.

Method II
Create a fictive father of the father in the source data base.
Left click the new guy in the source
Right click the father ghost box of the father
Up pops the copy person from ,…. box
Click included ancestors and their spouses so I cant get the descendents and click that
Click select all
click copy
Click backup to make that go away
window pops up saying, “Please ensure that both the child and the parent have a valid birth year – they may be approximate dates.”
I do nothing about this because I have no dates to enter, just names. Do we have to have a birth date to enter someone?
Clicked OK even though I didn’t fix the date issue.
It then tells me:
“0 people were copied to the target model. Inspect the changes and if necessary you can invoke Undo.”

I click OK b/c not ok is not an option.

How does one merge descendants successfully?

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