Difference between revisions of "RootsMagic 8:Merging Places"

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When you have two places you want to merge together (perhaps different spellings of the same place), highlight the place you want to keep in the Places page, then click the 3 dot menu and select "Merge places".
  
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Manually merging places
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You can then check any or all of the places you want to merge with it, and click OK. RootsMagic will then merge the selected places into the first place you chose to keep. All facts using the merged places will be updated to use the newly merged place.
 
 
When you have two places you want to merge together (perhaps different spellings of the same place), highlight the place you want to keep, then click the "Merge" button You can then check one or more places to merge and click the "Merge selected places" button. RootsMagic will then merge the selected places into the first place you chose to keep. Note: You will not be asked to confirm where you want to merge the place – when you click the button the places will be merged.
 
 
 
Automatically merging places
 
 
 
If you change a place to match another one in the Place list, RootsMagic will automatically merge the two places together for you.
 

Latest revision as of 03:39, 2 September 2021

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When you have two places you want to merge together (perhaps different spellings of the same place), highlight the place you want to keep in the Places page, then click the 3 dot menu and select "Merge places".

Merge Places

You can then check any or all of the places you want to merge with it, and click OK. RootsMagic will then merge the selected places into the first place you chose to keep. All facts using the merged places will be updated to use the newly merged place.