I accidently today added 3 people who were in my DB already. When I checked the name list for the next person, saw the mistake. Two of them now have new AKA's and the sources went well. It took ten minutes to find and do the merge. An old program (will remain nameless) would go in and find same named siblings 'with birth years only' and kept asking me 'should they be merged'?, with no tool like potential problems check offs, to tell the computer, never show these again. That was in the 1990s, but I will never trust the computer to 'find' them. Rich in LA CA
--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Elizabeth Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Elizabeth Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] duplicates > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 6:48 PM > How did this work? > > In Legacy, you click Add New [wife, husband, father, > mother, son, daughter] > OR you click Add Existing. Existing brings up the name > list. Add New brings > up an individual screen. It seems you would have to type in > information for > it to look at your database. Seems simple enough to just > click Add Existing, > then look at your name list. If the person isn't > already there, click > Cancel, click Add New. What's the deal? > > Elizabeth > researching the descendants of William and Sarah > (Patterson) Thompson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Allison Nelson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:19 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] duplicates > > > >I agree this would be a useful feature, and to keep > everyone happy, > > should be an option we could turn off or leave on. > > Allison > > > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Elsie Saar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FTM also did such a check which I found very > useful. Didn't slow anything > >> down. With over 17000 people, this feature would > be very beneficial to > >> me. > >> Just my 2 cents. > >> Elsie > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Bruce McArthur > >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > >> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:40 PM > >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] duplicates > >> Hi > >> > >> Just my twopennyworth. TMG (The Master > Genealogist) does indicate when a > >> posible duplicate has been entered and allows > it/them to be viewed at the > >> time of entry. The matching criteria can be > specified to a considerable > >> degree. I find it useful and it even indicated a > crossover between two > >> of > >> my lines that I would have missed at least > initially. It doesn't slow > >> the > >> program in any way. > >> > >> regards > >> > >> Bruce McArthur > >> > >> > > > > > 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 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
