Jane. I do not use the Ahnentafel system, and in fact no no more about it than what it is. You mentioned in your other post that a woman was given the description of a system, that is true for the URL which I supplied.
I am mainly replying because you seen to imply that the RINs need not be random, I am afraid that they always will be, even if you spend all of your time trying to develop a system for them instead of doing research - same for MRINs btw.. I do not have much use for masses of paper files, obviously I have some, like certificates, wills, printouts of some databases and similar, but much prefer to store all my stuff electronically - even copies of most of my papers, with it being linked via sources to Events/Individuals. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: sarlesinsi...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 6:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN info I guess I am thinking about a numbering system such as used in the Ahnentafel, where a person's number can be doubled to get their parent's number. Of course, I don't know, if my data were in such a format, how the siblings, etc. would be number. Fuzzy thinking again. Is everyone else content to leave their RIN number so random? Jane On , Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Jane, > > > > Yes, that is correct, the husbands RIN has ‘H’ in front, the wife’s > ‘W’ > and > the MRIN has an ‘M’. > > > > There are various ways of filing and using MRINs is one, indeed it is the > one favoured by Geoff. This, and others can be found by visiting “Tips > from > Experts†which can be accessed under the Legacy Home tab on your program – > in > the box on the bottom right of that page. From here you can find pages on > how to > find all sorts of things, including paper filing. However to save you the > bother, you will find that that leads to > http://www.fileyourpapers.com/legacy/legacy5.html > > > > > > A MRIN will only be registered if (1) a person is married, or (2) has a > child, or (3) various ways where there may have been a child/wife etc.. To > find > the latter I suggest that you look at the Marriage List (View>Marriage > List) > to see if there are any of these so called ‘ghost marriages’. These can be > deleted – note do not delete if there are children. > > > > Ron Ferguson > > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > > From: sarlesinsi...@gmail.com > > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 4:23 PM > > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > > Subject: [LegacyUG] MRIN info > > > > I know this is pretty basic stuff, but I guess there is a lot of basic I > don't know. I am assuming the 3 numbers at the bottom of the family screen > (at > bottom right) are the husband's id number, the MRIN (marriage id number) > and the > wife's id number. Apparently, even though I have not found marriage > information, > the program assigns an MRIN number. I am revamping my filing system and > plan to > do it by MRIN. Am I correct here? Neither"Help" nor the manual answered my > question for certain. > > > > Jane S. > > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
