Yes, but I do not see any way to use it on a specified subset that omits no one in the subset from consideration and considers only those within the subset for matching.
________________________________ From: Valerie Laskowski <lask...@att.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 7:53:18 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Merging Only Designated Subsets Are you using the Intellisearch feature at all? Valerie ________________________________ From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Walter Johnston Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:02 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Only Designated Subsets MERGE / MANUAL is just not going to work for this problem. The new data being imported has hundreds people, many of whom are not connected in the incoming data but may be in the larger database to which they are being imported (e.g. unattached witnesses to weddings, sponsors at baptisms). So the manual merge is going to leave a lot of very important potential merges unexamined. I really do need to use FIND DUPLICATES (and not MANUAL MERGE) but to only have it seek to find duplicates of the subset that is the incoming new people, so that it definitely examines every single one of the new records (which would need to be specified to the Find Duplicates feature in some way). It is extremely important that the merge consider all of the incoming records for possible duplicates - but only those records. The SPECIAL DUPLICATE SEARCHES options of FIND DUPLICATES that exist do not include any such ability. As I said in my original post, the import can clearly be done in a way that the RINs start at some number far above the existing RINs. And perhaps there is even some way to tag all of these based on RIN > X (I am not well enough versed in tags to know this for sure). But there is clearly a way to keep the records distinct in a way that the software has a chance of recognizing .. The problem is that there seems to be no way to specify and options on FIND DUPLICATES that allow any specification of a subset of the database to be used as the exclusive source of potential matches. I guess Legacy just cannot do what I need it to do. ________________________________ From: Carl Cox <ct...@getgoin.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:03:15 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Only Designated Subsets <<I have a large database to which, from time to time, I want to import and merge smaller databases. When I do this, I would like the merge feature to consider only potential merges with the newly added RINs. >> Legacy is great on this type of merge. Just do a manual merge on a person of your choice, one that is in the center of the people. If the new ones are all connected, then Legacy will look around each merge and find spouses, children, and parents that need to be merged. It will also suggest merging automatically, which I have found to be very nice. If you have unconnected people in the import, Legacy will not find them, but will get nearly every imported person needing merging. -- Carl ct...@getgoin.net 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
