Thank you for the reply. I think I understand but it's still a bit foggy. I have cleared about a half dozen and check /repair is now clear. I have no idea what I did to mess them up.
Ian On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 9:08 PM Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian, > The new update of Legacy has added a new check for Duplicate Marriages. > Some of them will prove to be legitimate and some will not. > eg a couple may have married, divorced and then remarried. > Or you may have someone linked to RIN 0 more than once as you have > baptisms records that they had two children but don't know whether the > other parent was the same or not. Old baptism registers often just give > the father and you can't assume the same spouse given how many women > died in childbirth and their husbands remarried. And when they just give > the mother for several children - was the father the same person? I have > at least 5 valid duplicates in my file. > If you discover you have valid Duplicate Marriages, then mostly in the > future run Check/Repair with the checkbox re Duplicate Marriages > unchecked. Especially if you find you had duplicates that weren't valid, > periodically run it with that Checkbox checked. > > In your case you have two Unknown-Unknown relationships. You will likely > find that they have no other information and you should simply unlink > the child they are linked to and get rid of them. > You find them by going to View > Marriage List and finding the Marriages > with MRINs 17923 and 10978 > Select them one at a time and see who they are connected to. If they're > connected to no-one, just unlink. > If they actually have marriage information then you'll need to re-find > one of the names. They may have been lost in an import or a merge. > > Cathy > > > Ian Macaulay <mailto:[email protected]> > > Monday, 28 September 2020 8:33 AM > > I have this message after a check/repair > > > > There is a Duplicate Marriage of Husband Rin=0, Wife Rin=0. See > > Marriage RINs 17923 and 10978. This was not removed because there are > > differences in the marriage date or location. > > > > I don't know what it means. > > > > Ian > > > > -- > > ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r.) > > Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days > > Macaulay Genealogy > > Family Matters > > Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario > > > > > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r.) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario
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