Hi Larry & wife, How about a duplicate check BEFORE entry of a person? When adding husband or wife or children, I choose the option 'Link to an existing ...'. That choice immediately transports me to the Name List. A quick search by surname tells me if that person is already entered in the database. If I find a suspect, I read through any or all of the 6 information tabs (detail, family, notes etc) to confirm my suspect. If none are found, I then close and return to Family View to 'Add a new ...' My temper has been restrained since I began using this procedure. To check for dups already in the database, select Tools from the top toolbar, select Merge from the list, then select Find Duplicates. Follow the recommendation to backup your file before merging and read up on Automerge before moving too quickly through the list. Hope some real veterans of the Find Duplicates & Automerge will post some tips for us. Regards, Jane Tripp
----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Van Horn To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:56 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Dup Name Check I have looked in everything available and maybe someone here can answer a user question I had asked by my netter half. Does Legacy have the ability to do a person/name dup check on entry of a person? Several programs do, but I cannot see where that is done within legacy, and if not, that feature really needs to be added. I have seen her (my better half) more than once lose her temper because the person she just put in was already there and now she has a merging mess on her hand. So does Legacy do what most other genealogy software programs do? Warm regards, Larry Van Horn Nicolas Martiau Descendant Association National Registrar Family Historian, Genealogy Instructor/Lecturer and Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Family Roots and Branches Genealogy Blogspot: http://family-genealogy.blogspot.com/ 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
