I am sorry Colin, but I think you have given Joe some misleading advice to use Record Merging rather than File Merging, and that Plugin is of little help as it makes the process too complex.
Joe, it would be a good idea to explain how you migrate your
Projects between PC and laptop.
That would throw some light on how you should be able to select and merge the two similar but different copies.
It is not possible to have two
Projects with the same name in the same
Family Historian Projects folder.
I presume the
Project on both PC and laptop is listed in the
File > Project Window as
Turner and Logan?
The detailed explanation of how to merge two Projects is in
Knowledge Base > Merge/Compare File.
That feature semi-automatically matches up all
Individual,
Family,
Source, and all other records.
It also retains all data such as Dates and Notes, unless there are conflicts, which you have to resolve.
BUT do not do anything yet until we all understand what procedures need to be followed.
If you ignore that advice you may permanently damage your data irretrievably.
When the synchronisation is complete, we need to explain how to keep the one
Project identical on both PC and laptop.
Turner and Logan. ged, so when I go to merge and try to bring them up, only one shows, but if i go to File > Gedcom File Tasks - they are both there and once and a while I end up putting info into different ones. Help please, I dont want to go through evcery record and figure out which are the same and which are different. Is there and easy solution.
