Merging Parents(Matching
Window)
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We just told the program to "Mark All Likely
Matches", and the result is:

There is an hour-glass that appears when the program is busy. 
Things to notice, here, are that there are little locks next to each
person who is matched to someone in the other tree. Where there
was no available or clear match, there is no lock. If there is a
person there, but the name spelling is different, you will have to
force the match on that specific person by using the right-click menu
for that person:

In this instance we do not have an appropriate situation for forcing a
match.
Also, if the program or you mark a person as a match and later discover
it was a mistake, you can remove the match with the right-click menu:

Note that the "Lock on Selected Person" button has been automatically
pressed for you. This replaces the match-finding controls and
replaces them with a place for a picture of the selected person.
When we are locked on the selected person you can move from person to
person in the two trees with a single selection. For example, you
can select "Andrew Albert Christian..." to get the following result:

Note that we see Andrew's wife, Sara for the first time, and she is not
yet marked as matched. We also see that the change source file
(on the right) knows about the children of Andrew and Sarah, but the
base file does not. We will come back to this, later.
You can also experiment with selecting the Pedigree View and Individual
Details View to see the information they contain. When you have
finished looking at that, return to the Family View.
We will now use the "Back to Previous Person" button to return to Queen
Elizabeth II as in the picture at the top of this page, and get to the
business of actually capturing changes from the change source file.
Select the
"Open Merge Editor" button at the
top of the window, and it
will open a new window type and the appropriate next help page.
Before doing that, you probably want to close this tutorial page.
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