Well Cathy, looked into it further, checked all appropriate boxes, figured I’d give it the benefit of the doubt, I’m working away and it pops up, still appears to only recognize the name, the person it is questioning, has completely different parents, different bap/chr dates, and in this instance, date if off by about 5 years.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Ernie Anderson Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:21 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] merge process incomplete I have used RootsMagic merge with very good results. the first option is mirror image merge, the other options are 1 year, two year and zero and they are done in color, Green for exact merge, Yellow something is missing and red for not alike.I find it much faster to use, with the green I can manually merge as fast as they come up, I don't have to check on dates or places or names which in Legacy really slows you down. With the present problems in Legacy, I would much rather use RM to merge my data than use Legacy. Ernie On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Gene Hutson <bigfish68...@gmail.com> wrote: Cathy, If you took it as criticism, I apologize, wasn’t meant that way, more a nudge, I have been using Legacy for roughly 18 years, going back to version 4 or 5 and have NEVER been able to get it to recognize those dates. Once again, my apologies, I will look further into it. Gene Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Cathy Pinner Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 11:15 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] merge process incomplete Gene, If the merge is not considering Christening Dates, it's because you haven't checked in the Merge Options to have them considered. So before criticising the merge further, learn how to use the Options it has. I know the Merge function isn't perfect and there are some known bugs. But not being able to consider Christening/Baptism Dates isn't one of them. Cathy Gene Hutson wrote: And further, the merge is not really fair in disregarding bap/chr dates, dates in the U.K. before 1837 are always baptism/christening dates, we as genealogists strive for accuracy, but a true birthdate is often hard to come by, if you can find one at all, save for the family bible that has been stashed. Mandatory registration did not come into play like I said, until 1837 in the U.K. and often times after 1900 here in the States. Here in Nebraska it was I believe 1912, so any date before that is a bap/chr date. Gene Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 *From: *Ernie Anderson <mailto:bonedigg...@gmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, March 26, 2018 8:06 PM *To: *Legacy User Group <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> *Subject: *Re: [LegacyUG] merge process incomplete Hi I run a merge on 156,000 names and got 1300 on autpmerge, and used Intelli pass. Before I run the merge I checked file properties and wrote down the number of names and got 156,468. After the merge I got 156,468 names. So what is the point of the merge if it does not do any merging. It still left me with 1300 names to merge manually. Also when running the merge it locked up all my ram memory so I could not use any of my other screens. The mouse was frozen. Ernie On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com <mailto:genea...@gmail.com>> wrote: Gene, This check for duplicates as you add is relatively new feature I think added in Legacy 8. It's not meant to be a full blown merge involving intellimerge or anything else. It's to help prevent you from adding someone who is already entered. If you don't want to do that and would prefer the fuller merge from time to time, then turn it off. It's controlled from Options - Customise 2.1 Cathy Gene Hutson wrote: Thank you, I thought maybe perhaps this was a little more modern, &n bsp; I’m used to the old days where if everything were exact it would/ Could pass directly into intellimerge, or intellipass, if not, it came back for more options, as this is now, without modification, it seems kinda silly to have just to pop up and get in the way. But Thanx for trying. &nb sp; Gene Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 *From: *Cathy Pinner <mailto:g enea...@gmail.com <mailto:genea...@gmail.com>> *Sent: *Monday, March 26, 2018 2:44 AM *To: *Legacy User Group <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>> *Subject: *Re: [LegacyUG] merge process incomplete Gene, That QuickDup search as you enter someone new has very few criteria though you can modify them. See Options Ribbon - QuickDup Options. The full Merge options are more extensive. & nbsp; Cathy Gene Hutson wrote: Thanx Cathy, It does not appear to take into account birthdates either, mainly name, it will bring up the exact name but totally different birthdates, in my experience so far, as much as a 5 year gap. Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 *From: *Cathy Pinner <mailto:genea <mailto:genea> k...@gmail.com <mailto:k...@gmail.com>> ; *Sent: *Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:45 PM *To: *Legacy User Group <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>> *Subject: *Re: [LegacyUG] merge process incomplete < BR> Gene Hutson, As a Legacy tester, I'll check this out further. If the merge were initiated from Merge - Manual Merge it is usually followed by suggestions of others that probably also need to be merged - though it does depend on your merge criteria. There are of course default criteria but you can adjust them. I'm not altogether surprised that it isn't doing this when merging from the duplicate dialogue that pops up when you're entering a new person as I would expect the merged person to inherit all the relationships of the person you merged into and that's my limited experience. I rarely add a duplicate and when I do, I usually back out of that dialogue to do a wider check before using the Manual Merge. I don't think any o f the merge criteria includes the marriage status of the person. Cathy Gene Hutson wrote: And as a further to earlier, it does not go far enough into the merge process by taking into account whether he/she was single and never married, you can check the “never married” box and it will still ask about duplicates, nor does it take into account death dates. Sent from Mail <https: //go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 *From: *Margaret Gagliardi <mailto:megsge...@gmail.com <mailto:megsge...@gmail.com>> *Sent: *Sunday, March 25, 2018 9:46 AM *To: *Legacy User Group <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>> *Subject: *Re: [LegacyUG] merge process incomplete I have the same problem. And further, any notes that I have in both memorials are not merged. I ha ve given up on merging and do it all manually and then deleting one of the memorials. It is reall y frustrating to have to do it this way.... Margaret On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Gene Hutso n <bigfish68...@gmail.com <mailto:bigfish68...@gmail.com> <mailto:bigfish68...@gmail.com <mailto:bigfish68...@gmail.com>>> wrote: Hello Group, LONGtime Legacy user here, one thing I have noticed with 9 and I just had it happen again, it may find a duplicate and it &n bsp; will ask you if this is the same person, if all info is correct and you go to merge the two, it doesn’t truly merge the 2, it may or may not merge part way, give you one parent but not the other, or give that person you just merged with 2 sets of parents, one obviously the correct set then one set of unknowns. In the case just now, it asked “is this the same person?” I verify all info is correct, it merges and then the person you were working with is now a ½ child to one of the parents, makes it look as if the mother in this case had an unknown marriage and now this child is the product of the mother and the unknown father, whereas she should have been connected to both parents. Hoping t his is clear and concise enough to understand. 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