Bill, One of the many items that FamilySearchTree imported from the IGI were the millions of Parish records and these seem to come over as from FamilySearch. Those generate many, many duplicates.
For instance, every baptism creates a mini-family. If a couple have 10 children in a parish, the couple will be included 10 times, each time with one child. The couple themselves might be there with their marriage record. And then each burial record usually becomes a separate record. I find the merge capabilities on the FS web site virtually unusable to sort this data out. Does anyone else see this? Does anyone know of a better way to deal with this? john. At 03:29 PM 12/7/2013, William Boswell wrote: >You've got that right. There are tons of duplicates at FS--some >with only a misspelled name and others with the exact same >information. Often I find that the submitters are staff Family Search. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] >Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 1:26 PM >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When you die / GEDCOMS / Legacy fancy features > >Please just use this judiciously. Only use if you find a >significant branch that does not already exist in Family Search and >then upload just that branch. Otherwise you will just be >contributing to the duplication problems. Thanks. > > > > > >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
