People must be added as relatives of people already in the
tree. This is done as if the new person was a detail of the
already-existing person.
Let's assume that we have the following situation:
In our base file we have King George VI, and we have found his match in
the change source file. The change source file also knows his
parents. We wish to add his parents to the output. To do
that we press to open the
Three-Pane Merge Window on King George VI:
There are many pages of information on the Three-Pane Merge
Editor. One of them is on the parents of the selected person:
This picture shows that our source file has no information on King
George's parents. The output merge file has not been changed, so
it is also empty. The change source file has lots of info on King
George's parents and family. To push all of this information to
the center we simply select it's topmost container. This will
walk through everything below and push it to the merge output file in
the center. As an
individual or family is pushed to the center, it needs to be checked to
see if the individual or family exists in the ouput file already, but
just in a different context. If the program determines that there
might be a match with an already existing item, it will ask you to
decide amongst the choices. Most often people you are asked
about will still be new. Any people for whom you have already
marked matching people will not be ambiguous, so you will not be asked
about them.
The merge starts by pushing the upper-right button:
It tells you that it is starting:
Then it looks for possible matches to the family you are adding as a
parent family:
Neither of these alternatives is the same family, so we simply confirm
we have a New family by pressing "New".
Then we are asked if the King George that comes up as his father is
really not the same person:
Since King George V and King George VI are not the same person, Once
again we can confirm that it is a new person.
We will be not be asked for his mother because she doesn't produce any
possible matches.
We are adding the whole family, so we are also asked for all King
George VI's siblings, if they are new or not where there is any
ambiguity. After answering as needed (always "New" in this
example), we are told that the merge is complete, and that it takes a
while to regenerate the displays from the new merge tree.
Here is the result in the Three-Pane Merge Window:
Note that only King George VI shows the color for being from the Left
(source) file. All his parents and siblings carry the color of
the Right (change source) file.
Here is the result of this merge in the Matching Window:
Notice again that the color shows the source.
Finally, let's look at King George V as selected person and show the
Family View so we can see the new siblings of King George VI.:
We have added his family all at once.
We could have added only his father by starting the process by pressing:
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