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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