I put it with the last marriage, the one she was in when she died. The same with living entries, their documents go with the current marriage and their double-barrelled MRIN tells me that there was an earlier relationship...such as Brad Pitt M:1234-1235. His documents would go with his relationship with Angelina but I would be able to tell from his MRIN user ID that he had a previous marriage.
I will add that my filing on family trees [that is pedigrees, individual reports and copies of the original documents along with other interesting stuff, research to-do and done and copies of photos] are filed in ring folders in a separate folder for main surnames then chronologically. I tried doing it by MRIN but that became a nuisance when I wanted to go back through a particular family and found I had to pull out several folders! Desk just wasn't big enough for that. Also was a pain when I wanted to take my mother in law's research up to show her.....was better off all in one folder, chronologically. Yep, tried putting it on a flash drive but she found looking at actual paper much easier :o)) Wendy [AU] ----- Original Message ----- From: Marilyn Brenk To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:10 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] User ID I also use the MRIN...really like it...but have one question. I am unsure where to put some documents. It is clear where unmarried children's docs go....but what about say death docs??? My ggrandmother married Louis, had my grandmother, Mary. Ggrandmother later married Bob and had more children. Where does ggrandmother's death doc go....with my direct line or with her later family??? I hope I made myself clear. Thanks in advance for input. Marilyn > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] User ID > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:44:21 +1100 > > I use MRIN for my paper filing, Elizabeth. As far as I know, there is no > easy way of transferring the MRIN into the User ID field. Some years ago I > think Geoff may of mentioned that they were thinking of programming it into > the software so that you would have the choice of creating User IDs with > either the RIN [as you can do now] or MRINs in Customise>Other> Custom User > ID Number but to date that hasn't happened. > > My system might seem cumbersome but it works for me for example. > > Brad Pitt marries Jennifer Aniston so Brad and Jennifer's MRINs are M:1234 > for both of them [I like to put M: as a prefix] > Brad Pitt remarries Angelina Jolie, Brad's MRIN is M:1234-1235 and > Angelina's is M:1235 and Jennifer's remains at M:1234. I have a couple that > have four numbers. > > With my paperwork such as original documents, I file them in the cabinet > under the MRIN. With children's documents [who are not married] such as > vitals, I put M:1234/1 for first child, M:1234/2 for second child and so > on.....this is on a label on the plastic sleeve that contains the file with > a marriage index printed out at the front of the files. I do this with > every piece of paperwork needed for cross reference. > > I have a friend who has a larger database than me and she was struggling to > get a grip on her paper filing so she tried the MRIN method and it just > flowed for her and she loves it........just different strokes for folk. > > My database is only of 2200 but I could imagine with a large amount of > marriages it could become out of hand. > > Wendy [AU] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hope Bagot Bees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:58 AM > Subject: [LegacyUG] User ID > > > >I would like to follow the advice given recently about copying MRINs into > >the User ID field. This is a big task, but to start with, can I do it for > >the married people by any method, please? > > Elizabeth > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
