Roy, similar situation has occurred with me and I corrected the problem with some data base maintenance.
File -> File Maintenance -> Check / Repair and then again with -> compact family file. You might have to run the check / repair more than once.if there were any errors and fixes. Hope this helps ... Paul ----- Original Message ---- > From: Roy Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:46:23 AM > Subject: [LegacyUG] Mirrored marriages - spreading like a disease > > I have Legacy 7, running on WinxXp-sp2, and everything was working > fine until about a month ago when I started looking for duplicates and > matches among a half-dozen family files; thinking I was "cleaning up" > but obviously screwing up big time without knowing how. At one point I > requested a renumbering of RINS, and that was done, seemingly without > problem. > > Now I find that most every married person on my main file (560 names) > has a 2nd spouse that is a perfect replica of the 1st. Both are marked > Preferred. > > The Help file seems clear on this question: Unlink or Delete. So, I > tried it. After setting one spouse (wife) as Preferred, I unlinked the > other - and then both Preferred and unpreferred disappeared, and the > wife's whole ancestral line with her. (I miss an "ignore unlink" or > some corrective like that on Legacy.) > > So I'm back to where I was, using a backup file, but am now wary about > the next option, the Delete. Before I click on it, though, I thought > I'd check with the forum to see if there is some wise counsel about > this. My feelnig is that Delete will also erase both of the duplicated > spouses, because they are really inseparable. > > Or are they? A Check/Repair produces a 27-page memo listing these > marriage conflicts: > > "There are 1 marriage record(s) that do not reference a valid Husband RIN:" > "There are 2 marriage record(s) that do not reference a valid wife RIN:" > "There are 78 marriage record(s) where the Husband's Gender is not Male:" > > And on and on, for married people who are set for "never married", > "wife removed..." > > MRINs and RINS are listed for every case. There are NO error messages > at any point, only persistent warnings that RIN such-and-such is > missing (4 of them), but no suggestion of what I should do about it. > > Oddly, even with all these conflicts, the file still seems to work > okay for reports, onscreen viewing; everything seems to be still in > place, albeit mysteriously mirrored in parts. > > I feel very much out of my depth in trying to solve this complex > problem, and would greatly appreciate any suggestions. > > > > *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit > http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** > 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 *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** 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
