I have never seen why one should ever wish to change the RINs or MRINs, I never have, indeed it would be a grave mistake if I changed the former as the RINs are used for the file names in Pedigree webpages. If I changed the RINs all the URLs in the Search Engines would be wrong, at least until they caught up.
Years of building up the search engine records for my webpages would be wiped out overnight! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Marg Strong Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 8:34 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again Jenny, it's just the OCD in me. But I can see where it isn't really possible especially when branching out more. I just started trying to catch up on entering data and arranging my folders and find myself overwhelmed. I thought I might arrange the documents/media etc for families and use the MRIN as part of the folder name. Still haven't figured out a way to use the UserID unless I just accept the default. In that case, renumbering would be a nightmare since it would change the ID's. Thanks for the heads up. From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again On 01/09/2012 10:44, Marg Strong wrote: > That lets me see the numbers and I could print them. I finally found it > in help where I should have looked from the first. I wanted to renumber > the whole list since some of the main people had high numbers. Just curious, but why does it matter if "some of the main people had high numbers"? I have been researching for nearly 10 years and started in Legacy by entering the people from a hand-written tree compiled by a relative. Because of that, one of my 6th Great Grandfather is number 1 but another of my 6th Great Grandfathers I only found a month ago so his RIN is 4517. (I happen to be RIN 221.) If you want "important people" to have low numbers are you going to renumber every time your research throws up another direct-line ancestor? I use RINs as part of the UserID and use the RIN or UserID to identify everyone in documents or pictures and in file names. As long as I use the right number it doesn't matter a jot to me whether the number is high, low or in-between. -- Jenny M Benson 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
