Can RootsMagic allow conflicting data, such as two birth dates?
Yes. You can enter two (or more) birth facts for a person by clicking the “Add a fact” button on their edit page and entering another birth fact. When you are entering a fact there is a checkbox in the lower left corner of the fact edit page called “Primary fact”. If you are entering a conflicting birth or death fact, you can mark this checkbox in the copy of the fact that you want to show on the main screens and in printouts like the pedigree chart (where there is only room for one copy of the fact). – Updated: November 30, 2004 4. When I drag and drop people from one database to another, they don’t seem to show up in the new database. – Top When you drag and drop people, it just copies them from one database to the other. It does not link them to the other family since it doesn’t know how (or if) they should be linked. If the people you dragged into the new database contain duplicates of people already in the database, use the merge feature (“Tools > Merge” from the menu) to merge th