I applied the RINs preceded by "RIN-" to my database of about 5,000. I had used the ID field years ago when inputting data on my maternal grandparents descendants from a report created by a cousin at a family reunion so there were some manual IDs in the file as well, it was a spreadsheet and I used the line number for each person as their ID number. A duplicate ID field search found 296 duplicates. The first dozen I checked were all valid duplicate ID numbers because the spreadsheet had both husbands and wives on the same line number.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 07/03/2014 6:55 PM, J.M. "Jay" Ingalls wrote: > If you use the ID Number field in Legacy, have you tried a search for > duplicate ID numbers? > > Go to; My Toolbar, Merge, Find Duplicates, Special Duplicates Search, > Find duplicates using only User ID number, Continue. > > I ran the search for duplicate ID numbers and found 57, 416 duplicate ID > numbers per the Legacy version 8 software. I have ran it in the past > with previous versions of Legacy and did not find many. When I go to the > Name List, I only have 66,194 people in my database! > > I do have duplicate ID numbers starting with "B", because I imported > data long ago for Ingalls listed in Burleigh's 1903 book on the Ingalls. > The researcher who added the data to her genealogy program added ID > numbers starting with B for Burleigh to indicate the number came from > his book. The book was published in 1903, so many of the individuals she > added to her data are descendants of some one in his book. She handled > that by using the number for the last ancestor listed in Burleigh plus a > dash number indicating the number of generations an individual is > removed from "B1". So, there can be many descendants with the same ID > number such as B1222-10. > > I did a search for ID numbers starting with "B" and found 3,948 People > with ID Numbers starting with B. Not all of them are duplicates! > > I did a fairly extensive audit of all my ID numbers and found very few > identical ID Numbers, except for the Burleigh numbers. Looks to me like > there is a software problem. > > Jay Ingalls 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
