How to merge 100+ polygons without loosing data

Question

Hi. I am a student and learning ArcPro, so stick with me here.

I am working on a project with land owner polygons. I have about 100 land owners, but in order to see them all at once I have to select all of them. I want to merge them all so I can query by year, last name, acres, etc. The data is messy and so there are some overlap fields, etc..

Below is what I did.

1) merge data by year.

2) merge all years together to create a layer with all data.

The problem is that some off that data is missing. There are over 100 polygons, however in the master merge, I have about 70 fields. Can anyone help me manage the data in a better  way?

Thanks!

GracePowell · Answer

Is there a way to add it so that there is only one box to toggle on and off the show the feature class, instead of all of them being individual? I'd like to be a ble to query them all at once and turn them off and on at the same time as well.

ChristopherMask · Answer

Using ArcCatalog, find the new geodatabase -> double click to expand -> right click on new feature class -> add to current map.

GracePowell · Answer

Thank you, that is helpful. I went ahead and did that but the new files wont show in my contents pain as it does automatically in the video. Do you know how to potentially troubleshoot that?