Jo, I also use GenViewer and concur with your remarks. I was however, concentrating my remarks on Legacy itself. At present with Genviewer I am doing a multiple criteria search for duplicates in a file containing some 2000 Fergusons or similar.
The trick, of course, lies in defining the specifics of the criteria in order to produce a manageable list. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:43:06 -0700 > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > From: mjohar...@comcast.net > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See > > > The Legacy add-on, GenViewer, does all of these things, and more, and > in micro-second time. I'm just back to doing my genealogy after > several years. In the meantime I'd lost contact with my > GenViewer. So just last night I bought it again at $19.95, and will > testify that it is WELL worth the price. Look for it at the Legacy Store page. > > Jo Harper > > > At 01:43 PM 8/3/2009, you wrote: >>I see what Chuck would like to do, as would I. In index view, you >>can list everyone by RIN, First name or surname. There are five >>other fields that could be sorted as simply as the RIN, First name >>and Surname sorts. I can't think, at the moment, why I would want >>to sort locations or sex on this screen, however, the birth date and >>the death date sort would help to quicky show duplicate names. >> >>As an example: Suppose I have a Thomas Hughes b. 16 Jan 1725 and a >>T. Wilson Hewes b. 16 Jan 1725. I would be able to see at once that >>it is a possibility that they might be the same person. It would >>probably occur to me that I need to check these names as possible duplicates. >> >>If I had many names in my family that began with the letters Ha, He, >>Hi, Ho, & Hu the Hewes and Hughes surnames might not sort close >>enough together for me to see this connection. >> >> >> >>Rebecca >> >>From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On >>Behalf Of Randolph Clark >>Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:43 PM >>To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See >> >>The first is easily avoidable by selecting "Link to existing person" >>to see if they're already there. >>The second is next to the person's name if you've so customized the >>Index View. >>On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Chick Lewis >> wrote: >>I have been using Legacy for almost a year now (since V7 came out.) >>My previous program was Family Tree Maker. Following are two features >>that I would like to see incorporated into Legacy: >> >>1. The ability for Legacy to recognize a possible duplicate person >>when he/she is being entered. I search for duplicates quite often >>because I have inadvertenly entered a person without realizing he/she >>is already in my database. I know how to use the merge function and >>search for duplicates, but it would be nice if Legacy would "catch" a >>duplication when the name is being entered and warn that it is a >>possible duplicate. >> >>2. The ability to sort/search the index by birth date as well as >>alphabetically or by RIN. This is one feature of FTM I really miss. I >>often found people who were the same, but had their names spelled >>slightly different. Comparing individuals by birth date rather than >>name will sometimes reveal the existence of an un-connected individual >>with a different name or name change. I have had several instances >>where I have been able to connect individuals to families by comparing >>birth dates. >> >>If enough of us request these features, maybe the powers to be will >>incorporate them into the next upgrade. >> >>Chick Lewis >>California >> _________________________________________________________________ Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 Optimised for MSN. http://extras.uk.msn.com/internet-explorer-8/?ocid=T010MSN07A0716U 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
