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The top pane is a scrollable and selectable view of individual items that were found to be different in your import. Items that were the same (since they were derived from the common Gramps tree) are not shown.
The top pane shows a 'Status' which is one of '''Different''', '''Added''', or '''Missing'''. '''Different''' items were found in both the current and imported trees, but had been changed in some way. ''Added'' items are found only in your imported tree. And '''Missing''' items were found in your current tree, but not in the imported tree.
The top pane also shows the ''Object'' type ('''Person''', '''Family''', '''Media''' etc.), its Gramps ''ID'', an ''Object Name or Description'', and the selected ''Action'' (more later).
You can search for items by Name by just typing characters to match. The top pane must be active for this to work. For example if you are looking for 'Smith, Magnes' in the 'sample.gramps' tree, you could type 'smi' which would jump the selection to the first of the lines containing these characters, and then use cursor up/down keys to find the 'Smith' you are looking for. Or type 'magn' which is more likely to land on the right place.
You can search for items by 'ID' field by typing '#' and then the characters to match. For example type '#I0103' to search for the individual with ID I0103.
You can sort the top pane by ''Status '' (Family ''Object'' will be a sub-sort), ''Object'', ''ID'', ''Object Name/Description '' (will be grouped by ''Object'') and ''Action''. Click on the column header to change the sort.
== Lower Pane ==
When an item in the upper pane is selected, the lower pane shows the specific differences. If no ''Action'' is made yet, the pane will show the 'Current >>' and 'Imported >>' state for each sub-object and item that has a difference. If an ''Action'' has been selected, the pane also includes a 'Result >>' for each sub-object and item that has a difference.
Sometimes it may be difficult to determine enough about the difference to figure out what is going on. If so, you can check the '{{man label|Show more details' }} checkbox to see more about the difference.
The lower pane tries to present the information as concisely but informatively as possible. Apologies if the information seems a bit hard to interpret at times. One area that might be confusing is when there are differences in 'lists'. Many of Gramps objects have lists of other objects, families have lists of children, persons have lists of events or notes etc. When a list has changes, the left side will have a list position number preceded by '#'. For example:
Note that families and persons in particular usually have a lot of references to other families or persons. In fact if your imported file contains a whole new branch of your family tree, selecting any one of the people or families in that branch will automatically mark all the new people and families at once. This is usually desirable, but not always.
=== Automatic mark with Families ===
This tool is not ideal for selecting only parts of a tree for merging, but it can be done. If you wish to include a person, but not his family (spouse and children) then you can uncheck the '{{man label|Automark Families' }} checkbox. This applies to all persons found via the Automark as well. The effect is that you can get ancestors (if '{{man label|Automark Parent Families' }} is checked) included but not all the descendants of those ancestors.
If you wish to get a set of spouses and descendants included when adding a person but not all the ancestors of the spouses, then you can uncheck the '{{man label|Automark Parent Families' }} checkbox and leave the '{{man label|Automark Families' }} unchecked.If you don't want any family or parent families automatically included, leave both '{{man label|Automark Parent Families' }} and '{{man label|Automark Families' }} unchecked.
== Finishing up ==
