I believe that is just what I was referring to another message, a moment ago. That also explains how all those dups got there.
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:29 PM, John B. Lisle <leg...@tqsi.com> wrote: > 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 > > > 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
