Ron -- I'm new to the group and to Legacy too. It's one of the reasons I joined
the group.
I have the Legacy 7.0 Deluxe and the help says "The Renumber RINs screen is
reached by choosing Renumber RINs from the Tools menu."
It's a fairly lengthy help page. Key parts though about renumbering are:
* Renumber RINs option comes into effect and gives you many choices.
* Both Individual and Marriage record numbers can be changed.
* You can also create a log file of all the changes made by checking
the Log all changes to a text file option.
Seems pretty robust and resolves what used to be a manual process.
Now can someone tell me why I would even use RINs?
My thanks --
Lynda ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----
From: ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:33:27 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] pictures and scanned documents
JL,
I can't think where you got that from, it's certainly new to me, and I would be
very interested to hear an official comment on this.
Ron Ferguson
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> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:23:06 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pictures and scanned documents
>
> RIN's and MRIN's are fine unless you have to renumber them for some
> reason defined by tech support. I've never had to do such a thing, but
> I believe how it works is that if you have the Deluxe version and there
> was a problem you'd have a choice between numbering the MRIN's or the
> RIN's. One way around if you're concerned is to put the MRIN also into
> the User ID field.
>
> JL
> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
> http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
>
> Boyd Miller wrote:
>> File names for such a diverse collection of information is always going to
>> be a matter of personal preference and the degree of organisation we want to
>> go to. I only have a couple of hundred images so far but this is growing
>> rapidly. I generally label them this way, but with more or less information
>> as is required so that I can easily find any particular file.
>>
>> Census - downloaded images of original census pages (Ancestry images or
>> transcriptions and similar), scanned images and, photos of census docs.
>> File name: [census year date], [place], [head of house name], [original
>> image file name]
>>
>> Certificates - scanned images of birth, christening, marriage death, and any
>> other relevant certificates. File name: [surname, given names], [type of
>> certificate], [date, or original image file name which includes date]
>>
>> Monuments - cemetery headstones, monuments with names. File name:
>> [principal surname (and sometimes given names) on headstone], [oldest date
>> of death], [cemetery and/or location]
>>
>> Pictures - photos or scanned images of individuals or groups, scanned
>> documents not covered elsewhere relating to an individual. File name:
>> [surname, given names], [approx or actual year date], [identifying note, or
>> a, b, c where several pictures otherwise similarly labelled]
>>
>> Places - photos, maps, scanned pictures of places. File mane: [place],
>> [date], [significance]
>>
>> Each of the five groups of files is subdivided into my two main family
>> databases. I like the look of the JGEN system but I've yet to get that
>> deeply into it. I'd rather not use RIN or MRIN numbers because they are not
>> permanent, and I haven't used any User ID numbers, but that may be a better
>> index link. However many of the images are used with more than one
>> individual or marriage or source.
>>
>> I would like to see anyone else's system before my collection gets so big
>> that I'm unwilling to change it all to something better than I have at
>> present!
>>
>> Boyd
>>
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