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If you use this feature, it is usually best to also merge duplicate repositories and duplicate sources as well. If you send a copy of your database to a friend or relative (either in backup or GEDCOM format), and they make changes to the database and return it to you (in GEDCOM format), you can import that GEDCOM into your database, and use this option to automatically consolidate the changes. ShareMerge – When you add a person to your database, RootsMagic assigns a unique ID to the person, which will never be assigned to any other person in any other RootsMagic database (yours or someone elses).It may still be necessary to do the Duplicate Search merge afterwards to clean up any merges that RootsMagic can't do automatically. SmartMerge – RootsMagic will automatically analyze records in your database and automatically merge the ones it is sure are duplicates.Select the People page, then click the Tools button, then select AutoMerge. I may have had this issue with the 1st import, but was not looking for it at the time.RootsMagic provides several automatic merge capabilities that make merging duplicate records easy. I had not tried comparing the number of people until reading this thread. They are definitely in my RM7 but do not import to RM8." This was a direct import from RM7 to RM8 not a GEDCOM. I had also just finished a line of my family going back from gen 19 to gen 34. I noticed the same, although less dramatic, issue with other lines where only 1 or 2 generations disappeared. Upon closer inspection, I immediately noted that one whole branch of my family had been pruned during the import - everyone past my father's paternal grandfather. I tried this 3 different times (including ensuring that I closed RM7 before importing new file) and received the same results every time.
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I compared the number of people in the two files: RM7 has 7,543 & RM8 has 5,995. I just sent the following feedback to RM: "I just updated to v.123 and decided to delete my current test file and import a fresh updated one from RM7.