Because I created a similar problem, by merging almost duplicate files into 'each other', the program found and merged most of duplicate birth/m/d but didn't ask if the various duplicate marriages should be checked/merged. This may be the underlying bug. What I did was go to Marriage list, choose husband (or wife) and visually scroll the list to find the matches. Other than the Unknowns, it took about 20 seconds per screen to determine no candidates were there, longer to confirm/correct, but it 'quickly' finds the problems. Hope this helps Rich in LA CA
--- On Sun, 3/1/09, Donald E. Paden <don...@padenfamily.org> wrote: > From: Donald E. Paden <don...@padenfamily.org> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re:Merge MRINs? > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 12:46 PM > Hello Kate, > > > > My husband, Don, subscribes to this list, but he said I > could respond to > your problem since I also have had the same problem. I > first noticed the > duplicates last March, after running a Temple submission. > I tried to figure > out how it happened, but never was able to track it down, > or when it > actually occurred. In August I wrote to Legacy Support > about it, and was > answered by Taylor McGinnis. He said that he had only heard > of it happening > once before, but the person who it happened to never wrote > back to him. We > corresponded back and forth a few times, but he did not > know how it would > have happened, or how to "fix" the problem. My > husband said that he heard of > someone else having the problem from the group sometime > last year, also. > > > > The way I am fixing it is very time consuming, but it > works. I create a > search list by going to Search > Find > > Miscellaneous, and under "Entire > Family File" selecting individuals with multiple > spouses and tag with any > unused tag. (You could just use the general names list, but > this narrows it > down a little.) This brings the list up. On that list I use > the "Family" > tab. This shows all of that person's spouses (and all > of the duplicate > marriages, if any). I click on one of the > "duplicate" spouses and then > click "husband/wife list". Click on the second of > the duplicates and > "Unlink". > > > > This is where you have to be careful. You want to unlink > the *second* > marriage for the duplicates, not the first. If you unlink > the first, you > will unlink the children also. When you highlight the > second marriage and > click "Unlink", a box comes up to show the > children, but it will say no > children. Luckily, the duplicate MRIN does not attach any > children to the > marriage. *ONLY* unlink if that box says no children. If it > shows children, > you must have clicked the first (top) one by mistake. I try > to do 10-20 > every time I bring Legacy up, and have just over 300 left. > I don't think > there was anything we did to cause this, probably a bug in > the program that > very few people have run across, or even noticed. There are > many people who > use Legacy that don't subscribe to this list. I wish > Legacy could find out > what causes this, because I don't want to go through > all this effort to > unlink them manually, only to have it happen again. Good > luck to you! > > > > Kathy Paden > > > > > > _____ > > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com > [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf > Of Chy Maen > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:00 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Re:Merge MRINs? > > > > Hello, List, > > > > Taken weeks to get up the nerve to ask this question since > I feel so foolish > about it - how'd I do that?? > > > > Whatever I did, I've managed to get two different MRIN > #'s for the same > marriage therefore double marriages for the same couple. > The individual > husband & wife have the same RIN #'s in both > marriages - I found this while > doing a simple housekeeping - I can't merge the two > husbands (who are the > same person) and the two wives (who are the same person) > since they have the > same RIN # (twice) -- I thought, simple, just merge the two > marriages - but, > after many attempts, I'm stuck. Can one > "merge" marriages? > > I do remember several weeks ago "unlinking" what > I thought was a wrong > daughter in a family only to find out later it was not the > wrong daughter - > trying to get her back resulted in my simple > "housekeeping" which is when I > found the two MRIN's for the same couple. I'd take > them out and start again > if not for the fact this marriage took place in 1306 and > the couple are my > 15X gr. grandparents with lots of ancestors and descendants > already entered. > One of the MRIN's has their wedding information, the > other doesn't. > > > > Confusing, as can be imagined with two different marriages > that are the > same marriage... I could delete one? but tremble at the > thought of losing > all that data. Since I presume my problem can likely be > traced back to my > "unlink" of several weeks ago, I have wondered if > there is someway I can > find that "unlink" tho I don't know when I > did it and not certain if it's > The Problem... or even how to find it not knowing the date > I did it. > > > > any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Kate > > Confidentiality Statement - The contents of this e-mail, > including its > attachment, are intended for the exclusive use of the > recipient and may > contain confidential or privileged information. If you are > not the > intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from > reading, using, > disclosing, copying, or distributing this e-mail or any of > its contents. > If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the > sender by reply > e-mail immediately and permanently delete this e-mail and > its > attachments, along with any copies thereof. 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