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Starting Over

Hi All I'm sorry I've been so slack with this.  What with having a toddler and studying for my Masters, things have been a little bit crazy around here so I haven't done much family tree research for a while.  However, on my little dabbling, I've been getting increasingly frustrated because I know I have some glaring errors in my tree that are now so ingrained that I haven't been able to iron them out.   To solve this I have decided to do the genealogy do-over *.  I'm not going to do the "put everything in a box and forget everything you already know bit"  The main reason for this is, whilst I see the benefits of starting completely from scratch, after doing this for so long there are certain things that I know to be true so it seems a bit silly looking for them again. So what have I done so far? Well the first thing I have done is backed up my old tree as a gedcom.  That way I have it all there just in case something goes wrong.  Now, gedcoms don...