What do you do when someone who finds your GEDCOM on WorldConnect notifies you that there are duplicate names in your file? You might have more than one version of your GEDCOM on file or there might be a problem within the genealogy file from which you created your GEDCOM. A good starting point would be to request any password(s) and user code(s) for your WorldConnect GEDCOM(s) from Password Central: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com

If you have one user code, then you have one GEDCOM. If you have more than one user code, then you have more than one version of your GEDCOM on file with WorldConnect. Unless you intentionally have more than one GEDCOM in WorldConnect, you will want to remove the duplicate GEDCOM by going to the set-up page, using the user code and password for the older version of your file, and clicking on the "remove account" button (because this would be a duplicate you would not plan to reuse it).

If you have duplicate names within one GEDCOM that generally needs to be resolved within your genealogy program. Once the problem is resolved, create an updated GEDCOM and upload it using the original user code and password so that it will overwrite the one containing the duplicates. The most common cause of this problem is downloading GEDCOMs and merging the information improperly or incompletely into your file. Consult the manual for your genealogy program for help in merging the duplicate entries.




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from 7/19/2000