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> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:03:03 +0100
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
> From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search for unsourced data
>
> Boyd Miller wrote
>>I am working on a family that was entered under version 7.0.0.90 but
>>had most of the sources added after conversion to version 98.
>>
>>I have run Search>Missing sources, with all the boxes checked except
>>the Everything, Anything and ALL boxes. I get the response "No records
>>were found that match the search criteria". However I know that there
>>are several births, marriages and events that are not sourced, and
>>there may be others.
>>
>>I ran the same Search>Missing sources on a family entered and sourced
>>under version 90, and it showed the list of several people with
>>unsourced fields, which is what I had expected.
>>
>>I have run file maintenance, closed and reopened the program, and
>>rebooted with no different response to the searches. This is a very
>>useful search if it can be made to work. Has anyone else had found
>>this problem, have we got a bug, or am I missing something?
>
> I find it very confusing that you keep talking about families being
> "entered and sourced" and then say that you expect to find missing
> sources. Presumably you entered *some* sources but not all, and
> mentioning "and sourced" serves no useful purpose here.
>
> Anyway, I added a person to my file this morning and didn't Source the
> entry and it shows up in a Missing Sources search with the same criteria
> as you outline. Thus, I can't explain your problem but there doesn't
> seem to be a bug.
>
> I must thank you, though, for allowing me to discover how many Sources
> are missing (quite unnecessarily!) from my file!
> --
> Jenny M Benson
>
Jenny,
Now I deleted a source from a very recent entry and the record didn't show up.
Interesting!!
Ron Ferguson
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