Definitely very helpful! I started with my grandfather, what was I thinking, lol!! I have 275 people in my tree. I'm 2nd generation sicilian and 3rd generation italian. My family is not very big.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Wendy Howard <wendy.how...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know this question is really going to be on the top of everyone's >> dumb list, but the RIN numbers, if I put them in numerical order, will >> that tell me how many people I have on my family tree? > > Not necessarily. It is much more accurate to click on the "Legacy Home" > tab and look at the statistics there. > > If you have never deleted a person from your file, the highest RIN > should match the number of people in your file. But life isn't always > that clean and tidy, and mistakes are made - or new evidence found - > that may result in someone being deleted for a variety of reasons - for > example, this would have happened if you had merged all your duplicates > in the problem you first reported to us. > > Don't get hung up on the RINs. They are unique identifiers (ie, each > person has their own number, and no two people have the same RIN), but > other than that they're really meaningless. If your file is anything > like mine, you are RIN #1 - but after that it all goes to custard > because it depends on who you enter next as to who has which number. > > My parents are #2 and #3, then my sister, then her two husbands, then my > grandparents start at #7 with my mother's father. The only logic is how > my brain was thinking at the time I started the file, nothing more. My > partner happens to be #246, which I find convenient to remember, but > that is just how it played out - when I started, I had no intention of > including him in my family file. > > Hope this helps. :-) > > Wendy > > > > 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 > > 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
