One possibility is you may have accidentally deleted a person or a marriage or a relationship and this could have caused an "orphan" branch in your database.
If people are missing from the Family, Pedigree, or Descendant tabs, the first place I would look is the INDEX tab to see if they are truly gone, or if they just got unlinked somehow. The next thing I would look at is how many "trees" are in your database. You may just be able to re-link two trees by fixing a relationship. You can check your # of trees (and the number of people in each tree) by selecting: * View * Trees As an example of multiple trees - I have a partial tree of General George Patton in one tree, and then I have my family's tree, all in the same database. So far we have not been able to connect the two so we don't think we are related, but I have George's info in there "just in case". (On a side note, not really Legacy related but one of those interesting family stories: Turns out one of George's ancestors was trying to escape from someone, so he changed his last name to Patton (they believe it was his Mom's maiden name) and left the Scotland. Kind of ironically, the ancestor changed his name to Robert Patton (same as me!!)) Bob On 08/11/2015 10:54, BARTON LEWIS wrote: > That's probably good advice, Cathy (learning how to restore backups as > soon as you purchase software), but let's say you don't need to use > that information until a year down the road, or longer. It would be > nice if Legacy's Help feature on how to perform this very important > operation worked. The link is broken to James Terry's article. > Fortunately, I was able to find it on the web. > I only have one uniquely named version of my Legacy database. I can't > imagine how this data was lost -- that involving only the descendants > of this one particular ancestor. But it makes me very nervous. > Barton > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Cathy Pinner wrote: > > Well this is a lesson on learning where and how both databases and > backups are saved - and you can choose the location for both. > I'm sorry, I can't imagine using any program without learning that > in the first couple of days AND how to restore any backup. > I trust you know that now. > > I suspect the "data loss" was caused by opening an older copy of > the database. I'd check your computer for databases and, apart > from the backup zips, get rid of earlier copies of the database > with the same name. > > Also check what you have for Options - Customise 1.2 > I think it is best to use the third option to open a particular > database - checking of course that you have the right database in > the right folder when you select the file. > > RE the number of people in the database. > 1) the Home Tab > 2) unless you've been deleting and/or merging people and not using > the Too ls - Renumber RINS to compact the database, you can go to > Index View, put the cursor in the RIN box at the top to order by > RIN and scroll to the bottom. > 3) Open the Name List and make sure that the options to include > Alt Names and Married Names is off - see the number in the Title Bar. > > Cathy > > BARTON LEWIS wrote: >> >> I was able to restore the backup I made on August 6 that contained my >> data. What a relief. But does anyone have any idea how this >> could have >> happened? All of the children and their downlines for this >> particular >> ancestor that I had been working on intensively and almost >> exclusively >> for many months were gone when I opened Legacy tonight as well as >> associated sources. How could that have happened? >> >> >> >> Also, how can I check how many people I have in my database? In >> PAF you >> could click on the RIN field in the Index and it would list people by >> RIN, and you could go to the end and see how many you had (and also, >> when you backed up, it would tell you). That doesn't seem to work in >> Legacy. So how do I know? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Barton > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
