Two Cameras With a Lot of Duplicate Information

Situation: My husband and I do a lot of research in Europe. Both of us are running cameras in (for instance) a historical site, museum, or library. Sometimes we are together, sometimes I am way ahead of him. But sooner or later we will have some duplication of pictures—which is good as his picture might turn out better than mine, etc.
Problem: I import both of our shoots from both cameras into Aperture into a single project labeled for the spot we've just been. For Captioning and adding information it gets really tedious to first go through all his shots then go through mine with so much duplication. I wish there were a way to bookmark my place so I could go back and lift and stamp information from his pictures to mine. But when there are several hundred pictures between cameras I lose my place easily. Is there anyway I can run 2 browsers on the same project, just in different places in the project? (Like in Word where you can split a document and work on the content and footnotes in the same window.)
Any suggestions on the best way to do this?
Thanks.

I can think of a lot of work-flows that would be appropriate for your situation but to answer your question no you cannot open two browsers on the same project. You can open two browsers on two different projects by using option-click on the project. You may want to think about two projects at import time and consolidating them after the cull by dragging all of the images from one to the other.
RB

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