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Merging Children


Selecting Charles Philip Arthur makes him become the selected person on both sides.  When that happens we can see that the change source file on the right knows about his children, but the base file on the left does not:


Open the Three-pane Merge Window on Charles by clicking on the "Open Merge Editor" button, and you will see:


If you  click on the "Find Unresolved Difference" button, JPrise Gedcom Merge will look through the pages until it finds that there are differences on the My Spouses and Children page:



As was the case when we were adding parents, the children show up as red-highlighted issues needing resolution.  These people can be pushed to the middle either by selecting each individually, or by selecting the "This family has 2 children..." button above to push all (both) the children at once. 

You will be asked to confirm that William is not the same person as other people with vaguely similar names:


Since he is not a match for them, but is a new person, press New.

After the merge, the result will look like:



In the Three-pane Merge Window, when you press Find Unresolved Difference, no differences will be found and you can then mark Charles Philip ... as done.

In the Matching Window we see that (blue for change source file) William and (blue) Henry have joined the (otherwise yellow for base file) people on the left.  Also, the matching indicator lock by Charles Philip has turned gold to indicate his "done" status.



It is always a good idea to mark matches when we see the opportunity, so before continuing, let's press the Mark All Likely Matches button to get Diana marked as matched.

We will now go on to explore a more complicated situation.

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