Elizabeth, I know of no bugs connected with either the suggested procedures or the one which you used. However, I suggest that after you get your files right you run File>File Maintenance>Check/Repair, or even earlier if problems persist.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk Blog: Create Your Web Pages View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:40:28 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multiple marriages - more > > Thanks Cathy and Ron. I did, in fact, delete each child first and then > found, when unlinking the marriage (from the marriage list screen, not > the family view) that there were, apparently, no children to this rogue > marriage. Actually one time when I did this, the programme crashed, so > I think there was some bug somewhere. > Now to try and reinstate the three missing children to the correct MRIN. > Elizabeth H > > Cathy wrote: >> Hi Elizabeth, >> Don't delete the rogue parents if all the husbands have the same RIN >> and all the wives have the same RIN. In this case you need to unlink >> them in the marriages you want to get rid of. >> >> That is, you may have the couple in more than once but more likely >> they are linked more than once. >> >> Cathy >> >> At 07:11 PM 12/01/2008, you wrote: >> >> >>> Elizabeth, >>> >>> You are right to back-up first! >>> >>> There is no need to delete the children and in fact I would advise >>> against this. Decide which of the parents are the "correct" ones, or >>> the ones with the most information/other links attached. Unlink the >>> children concerned from the current parents and attach them to the >>> "correct" ones then delete the rogue parents. Follow the same >>> pattern, if necessary, for the other rogue parents. >>> >>> Ron Ferguson >>> >>> >>> _____________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: >>> http://www.fergys.co.uk >>> Blog: Create Your Web Pages >>> View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: >>> http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ >>> For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: >>> http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ >>> _____________________________________________________________________ >>> >>>> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:04:14 +0000 >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: [LegacyUG] Multiple marriages - more >>>> >>>> I have further looked at my file and now find that each of the last >>>> three children added have been linked to one of the odd extra >>> marriages. >>>> My instinct is to now delete each of these children, hope that the >>>> marriages disappear too and then re-enter the children again to the >>>> original marriage. >>>> >>>> Does this make sense? Obviously I'll backup first. >>>> >>>> Elizabeth H. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! http://mobile.uk.msn.com/pc/mail.aspx Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
