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Merging Details

We have now used the same process twice to merge parents and children.  The very same process accomodates all data types.  We will now go through an example of finding a mis-spelled location field.  For the sake of the tutorial, we know where to find this in advance.  You would normally find such things in the usual process of inspecting matched people with the Three-pane Merge Window and searching for unresolved differences with the "Find Unresolved Difference" button.  Because you can do this until the person has no unresolved differences, and then mark the person as "done" you will mark your progress all along until all people are marked done.

Starting from the following People Progress Window we will process Lady Diana.


When you press the Merge in Merge Window beside Lady Dianna you get;



Now press the Find Unresolved Difference button and it will find the following:



The difference it found is a difference in spelling of the name of the town.  I happens that the new spelling is correct, so we press on it to push it to the middle.  The result is:


Even though we have done a merge, this is still marked with red for "unresolved difference".  We could push the yellow value back to center.  We also could edit the value of the field we have pushed to the center by doing a right-click-->Edit: and using the Editor to  change the value:

In this case we will not do any of that, but we still want to tell the project that we are done with this difference.  To do that we check the box next to the entry in the center column:


Now the project will remember that we consider this resolved, and when we press "Find Unresolved Differences" we will be told we can "Mark Person Done" and go on with further work.



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