Just as a curiosity, What if the "Unknowns" were entered like "Boy Smith" or "Girl Smith" or if first name is known only then just put in "Sally Girl or Sam Boy" or something to that effect. It would keep the questionable in the files and keep them also together if you get the actual name for the person?
Christina On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:15 AM, JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. I ran a Potential Problems report. I had also done it the same day > with v.6 and got No Problems (of course, because I'd already fixed them > all). > Now, running PP on v.7 I got a list about six feet long. ?? Some of it > is old. Why was it in there again? I don't know. Maybe because the Ignore > feature hadn't carried through into v.7 ? > Some of it is new. v.7 has some new "bad" criteria and one of those seems > to be a dislike of the name Unknown. I have tons of them. I compromised at > taking off the Unknowns where it was a surname (mostly women) and just left > the ladies with their first names. > Where Unknown is a first name I did a Search and Replace to Un-named, > didn't like the look of it, because they're not really un-named, there just > unknown. v.7 doesn't mind Un-named. > I tried a couple as Son/Daughter but don't like the look of that either. > I went back to Unknown and told it to shut up, I'm keeping it. > > Don't worry. Sometimes it has an option for telling it to shut up. I was > just curious - what's wrong with Unknown?? > -- > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html > > Kirsten Bowman wrote: > >> JL: >> >> I wish you'd quit worrying me like this! I have scads of unknowns already >> in my database (but don't have v.7 yet). What happens to them when you >> convert? What sort of objection does Legacy make? Is it just when >> entering >> a new unknown, or is there a problem with those already entered? >> >> Kirsten >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JLB >> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:41 PM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Unknowns >> >> >> v.7 doesn't like people named Unknown either first name or last. What >> to do instead? Son/Daughter works when the sex is known. What for the >> unknowns? Could-Be-Either? What about unknown first names of >> Husbands? Still Son? What's wrong with Unknown? What for the unknown >> last names? Nothing? >> -- >> JL >> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >> http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html >> >> >> 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
