Hmm. I think there is another symptom of the same problem. An option for export says to suppress details for the deceased spouse of someone who is living. I found that deceased people with no spouse were being supressed – i.e., as if their non-existent spouse was living.
Ward From: Brian L. Lightfoot Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:32 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Preferred Marriage Error Revisited A week or two ago, someone had mentioned about seeing an error come up during routine file maintenance check/repair and the error explained that a non-existent preferred marriage(s) had been removed. Brian from Support then mentioned that it was an additional error checking routine that was added with the last build. Yesterday, I added a new individual to my file. With a little more research, today I learned where the person was buried and that he never married. So I opened up the Individual Information window for this person hoping to check the box that said “This individual never married and had no children.” Surprisingly, that entire option was greyed out, as if there was a wife. I suspected that I was revisiting that same error once again so I performed a file maintenance check/repair. Sure enough, there was a Preferred Marriage recorded to a non-existent wife which was automatically removed. I was then able to check the box indicating that the person never married. So what is going on with this last build of Legacy? There was no wife, marriage, or children ever added for this person yet somehow Legacy managed to create a Preferred Marriage. Is there a problem with database records such that this error now comes up occasionally, or more than rarely? As I said before, it seems like a no-harm, no-foul error but how many users know enough to immediately perform a file check/repair? Something doesn’t seem right….is this a bug that needs to be addressed? Brian in California Nice balmy 80 degrees today 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
