Only you know exactly where these many surnames are used and if you have
the SAME person entered more than once because you found something about
them that used a different surname from when you first entered them in
your database. Advice from this list can only give you general guidance
and there is no simple step that will magically solve your problem.
Here are some features built into Legacy that can help you sort out the
mess:
1. If the same person has been entered more than once Legacy will let
you merge the two copies into a single person. A merge takes two records
and combines then into a single person, the second copy no longer
exists. During this you can transfer events, pictures etc between the
two copies so that the remaining person has all the data entered for the
copies. You can even transfer some data to alternate events such as
alternate birth, chr/bapt, death etc. and names can be added as
alternate names to maintain data from the copy that will be removed by
the merge.
2. Where the same person is referred to by multiple surnames in
different records you can use the Alternate Name feature to record those
variations. You can even attach a source to each variation so you know
where it came from.
3. Legacy has an ability to search your database and suggest possible
duplicate people based on similarity in data and in family connections.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On 14-Jun-16 1:53 PM, Jodi wrote:
In my genealogy, I have some names Couwenhoven, Kouwenhoven,
VanCouwenhoven, VanKouwenhoven, VanCouwenhoven, Conover, Konover, and
Covenhoven. I have put them in my genealogy pages, they are mostly
mixed up now I have some of the same with the different spellings of the
last name, but they were from different sources and I had no idea they
were the same people, so now I have this mess in my tree, how do I fix
this tangle of mess? Thank you for your time.
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