Merge databases
If you pick File from the main screen menu and then Merge databases, you will be able to combine two databases. If you have two Brother's Keeper databases that contain different names, you may merge them by adding all the people in one set of files to the other. You should make backup copies of both databases before you do a merge. As the files are merged, the code numbers for one of the files will be changed so that they do not conflict with the existing numbers in the other file. Currently, the program will not check for duplicate names, so do not merge two files that have several identical people in both files or else you will have to do a lot of deleting to clean the file up. See Duplicate people.
If you have a case where you want to merge two databases, but there are several identical people in the two databases, then do the following: Use the Split Database routine to split off the different people into a temporary folder. Then use the merge routine to merge the people from the temporary folder into your other database.
After you merge two databases, you may have a few duplicate people, and by removing the duplicates, and then linking one person from the old database to someone from the new database, you will end up with one linked database.