Rich, Would you share the procedure for finding these unknowns that Legacy creates. I am going at this wrong as I don't seem to find any.
Much appreciated, Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "RICHARD SCHULTHIES" <fourpa...@verizon.net> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ubiquitous error 91 As I said, I was guessing, but knowing I have never created/added a person named 'Unknown', so all of the ones in my Lugacy DB are placeholders create by the program itself. Since they showed up after I had a crash, and I had 3 backups a few months apart; because my old computer, being too small to hold all my DBs at the same time, when I merged all onto the new bigger drive, with many duplicates expected, I found many 'Unknowns' added to single parents (spouse Unk.) and parentless children (both par. added); so I went through and unlinked the ones that showed up in the 'Name List'. I also unlinked the 'Unk - Unk' parents, since I had no source for them to create them. I understand the display for the program showing 'Unknown' for blank fields, but on thinking this furthur, I would prefer the computer change it's naming system to 'No data found'. Then those people who would like to create an 'Unknown' can see which they have missed, and those who do not, will see the reminder to fix it, and choices to print/not the above stuff. It would work the same way that print/not living works. Using the marriage list, for the husbands I have 4 pages (scrolls) of Unknown husbands, but 23 pages of Unknown wifes. I have 'unlinked' the Unknown/Unknown couples from the parentless people, then deleted the marriage of those MRINs. Since 'Unknown' is accepted by the LDS (with good reasonings behind it), I don't want to change the system, just what Legacy does with my data. Rich in LA CA --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Ann Parsons <aparsons2...@msn.com> wrote: > From: Ann Parsons <aparsons2...@msn.com> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ubiquitous error 91 > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:55 AM > Rich, > > Thank you for your interest in the error 91 problem. I have > never GEDCOM'd > (using the acronym as a verb) anyone into my database. Each > one has been > entered by me. I have 5727 individuals. To the best of my > recall this error > 91 started after I went to version 7. I especially thank > you for writing how > to find the unknown individuals. I will get right on it!! > > Ann > New Mexico, USA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "RICHARD SCHULTHIES" > <fourpa...@verizon.net> > To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:19 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ubiquitous error 91 > > > What my guess is, is that when you Gedcom some people from > your DB, and then > back in and merge them to the program, may? find parentless > people and/or > unmarried parents and 'create' the > 'missing' person to 'help' you fill the > 'holes'. I base this on how they seem to show up > after the above things > happen. > Rich in LA CA > > --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Janis L Gilmore > <rajan...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > From: Janis L Gilmore <rajan...@earthlink.net> > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ubiquitous error 91 > > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 6:45 PM > > It¹s not a matter of those persons that you have > entered as > > ³Unknown.² > > > > It¹s some mechanism in the program that accidentally > > creates parents without > > your consent. I only had five or so of them. > > > > Janis > > > > > I do hope whomever does! How did you search for > the > > unknown parents? I must > > > have many hundreds because so many ancient wives > and > > mistresses are unknown. > > > > > > But it would be worth creating a "mistress > or > > wife of" if that would solve the > > > problem. I have had the problem for the past few > > Legacy releases and > > > versions, but not in the earlier releases, > beginning > > with Legacy 1. > > > > > > Incredible that I can't back up at all after > doing > > all Support told me would > > > work.......... > > > > > > Carolyn > > >> > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> > > >> From: Janis L Gilmore > > <mailto:rajan...@earthlink.net> > > >> > > >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > >> > > >> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:04 PM > > >> > > >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Ubiquitous error 91 > > >> > > >> > > >> Someone on this list (my abject apologies for > not > > remembering who) contacted > > >> me offlist about error 91 and suggested that > I > > (among other things) check to > > >> see if I had unknown parents that I had not > > created - and something else > > >> similar. > > >> > > >> I know I sound as if I don't know what > > I'm talking about, and with good > > >> reason. I don't. I followed her > instructions, > > however, and I can now backup > > >> in the traditional way. > > >> > > >> I asked the individual in question if she > had > > contacted support about her > > >> findings, and she said that she had. > > >> > > >> Would whoever that is please contact me > again? > > >> > > >> Thank you so much. > > >> > > >> Janis Walker Gilmore > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > 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 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
