Hi Wendy, Actually, I stated my question incorrectly, it is the MRINs that I am considering renumbering not the RINs. My apologies to the LUG for hijacking Elizabeth's thread, that certainly was not my intention. I have changed the subject line to reflect this new thread.
My reason for renumbering MRINs is for filing and indexing of hard copies of Family Group Sheets, within my direct lines, in a numerical based Binder system. This is a system that I have studied for some time, and can be found at http://www.fileyourpapers.com/legacy/legacy.html If anyone has knowledge of this system, I would be interested in the Pro's and Con's of using it. If I do not renumber the MRINs within my Direct Lines the numbers in the index would not be contiguous and would make it more difficult to locate a particular record. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard [mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:46 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Renumbering RINs (was: Phantom people - duplicated RINs) Hi Charles, > I was considering renumbering some RINs, until this thread came up. Now I am > not sure whether to do it or not. What are your reasons for considering renumbering your RINs? These could be important in your decision-making. If it is, as was mentioned earlier, to give someone close to you in your family a lower number, I personally would not bother. The size of the number is quite irrelevant to the relationship to any other person in the database. My partner is number 246 in my database - that is, I entered 245 other people (including myself, of course) before I added him. It means nothing, except that he was the 246th person entered. We'd been together for almost 20 years at that time. My focus was simply elsewhere for a while. Coincidentally, it's an easy number for me to remember, when I want to find him quickly, such as when I'm using the relationship calculator, but that's accidental - and irrelevant, too. Instead look at it this way - at that point, I had 246 people in my database! That was a big number to me at that stage, and a mark of achievement. If we had a child now (that is NOT going to happen!), his/her RIN would be 10752. It says nothing about what that child means to me, it's just a unique number in the file. Nothing else. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: 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
