Re: [LegacyUG] Help with problem please - I have got myself in a mess
If I understand your diagram MRIN 3319 and MRIN 3339 include only Thomas with no wife or Child. To fix those you only need to remove the MRINs. Go to Thomas @ Margery in Family view Open the Marriage List and click in the husband box at the top of the screen to sort all Thomas' MRINs together. Select MRIN 3319 in the list and click on the Select button. Right click in the marriage box and select Remove the Marriage Link. Click Yes in the confirmation window. Repeat for MRIN 3339. Now you will only have MRIN 1371. If that family does not include your bolded John, click in the children area and select link to an existing son. Find John in the name list, click on his name to highlight him and click the select button. You will now have Thomas with only one wife and they will have John as their son. Check that John (if he should have his own son John) has that son. Now that the right people are all linked correctly you can go to yourself and set relationships. With yourself selected in Family View go to Tools > Set Relationships Click Set Relationships to recalculate the relationships of everyone in your file to you. You will get the warning to redo this any time you delete someone from your file because that missing person may break links and change relationships. P.S. When you find that people are incorrectly showing in family views but the person is correctly included in your file it is best to unlink that person from the incorrect family or spouse then find the correct family group and add then by linking to an existing person. The only time you should delete someone is when you know that they are not someone you want in your file. Brian Kelly On 28-Apr.-19 3:29 a.m., Anne Wiltshire wrote: Hello All I must mention that while attempting to resolve the problem below I kept getting a message to “Re-set relationships .. “ but as I did not know how to do this (even checked Help index)and attempted to resolve the problem myself. I was working in my Legacy program and added two people John, a son of Thomas. I then added Thomas and included his wife Margery. Unfortunately realised that I really only needed to enter Thomas and his wife. I deleted the son John and realised I would have to add Thomas to the correct John. Unfortunately again I added Thomas but his wife did not add and I added Thomas again. I now have three Thomas’ with three different MRIN and the original Thomas is not able to be added. I am not sure I have explained this well enough and I apologise for any confusion. This diagram may be clearer. John ---*John* Thomas The bold John was incorrect so I deleted it, however I had previously added his parents but could not see Thomas and his wife. I entered Thomas twice more after that (obviously not thinking straight) without his wife and now have three x Thomas in the MRIN *Thomas & Margery MRIN 1371 (the original and correct parents and entry)* Thomas MRIN 3319 Thomas MRIN 3339 Yours sincerely Anne Wiltshire -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Help with problem please - I have got myself in a mess
On 28-Apr-19 08:29 AM, Anne Wiltshire wrote: I must mention that while attempting to resolve the problem below I kept getting a message to “Re-set relationships .. “ but as I did not know how to do this (even checked Help index)and attempted to resolve the problem myself. Did you not find the right topic in the Index, or not understand what you read? The topic is under Relationship, Set. From time to time, as you add new people, you need to tell Legacy to re-calculate how these people are related to (or to someone else, if you wish to know that.) It's very easy to do. If you are the starting person (it will say Self above your name in Family View) first go to your own record. Then open the Tools menu and select Set Relationships. You should see your name in the top box. You probably don't need to change any of the options. Just click the Set Relationships button. Now Legacy has worked out how everyone is related to you and will display the relationships above their names in Family View, if you have chosen to have this display. -- Jenny M Benson http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Help with problem please - I have got myself in a mess
The simplest thing to do is delete all these people and start over. Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Anne Wiltshire Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2019 12:30 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Help with problem please - I have got myself in a mess Hello All I must mention that while attempting to resolve the problem below I kept getting a message to “Re-set relationships .. “ but as I did not know how to do this (even checked Help index)and attempted to resolve the problem myself. I was working in my Legacy program and added two people John, a son of Thomas. I then added Thomas and included his wife Margery. Unfortunately realised that I really only needed to enter Thomas and his wife. I deleted the son John and realised I would have to add Thomas to the correct John. Unfortunately again I added Thomas but his wife did not add and I added Thomas again. I now have three Thomas’ with three different MRIN and the original Thomas is not able to be added. I am not sure I have explained this well enough and I apologise for any confusion. This diagram may be clearer. John --- John Thomas The bold John was incorrect so I deleted it, however I had previously added his parents but could not see Thomas and his wife. I entered Thomas twice more after that (obviously not thinking straight) without his wife and now have three x Thomas in the MRIN Thomas & Margery MRIN 1371 (the original and correct parents and entry) Thomas MRIN 3319 Thomas MRIN 3339 Yours sincerely Anne Wiltshire -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
[LegacyUG] Help with problem please - I have got myself in a mess
Hello All I must mention that while attempting to resolve the problem below I kept getting a message to “Re-set relationships .. “ but as I did not know how to do this (even checked Help index)and attempted to resolve the problem myself. I was working in my Legacy program and added two people John, a son of Thomas. I then added Thomas and included his wife Margery. Unfortunately realised that I really only needed to enter Thomas and his wife. I deleted the son John and realised I would have to add Thomas to the correct John. Unfortunately again I added Thomas but his wife did not add and I added Thomas again. I now have three Thomas’ with three different MRIN and the original Thomas is not able to be added. I am not sure I have explained this well enough and I apologise for any confusion. This diagram may be clearer. John --- John ThomasThe bold John was incorrect so I deleted it, however I had previously added his parents but could not see Thomas and his wife. I entered Thomas twice more after that (obviously not thinking straight) without his wife and now have three x Thomas in the MRIN Thomas & Margery MRIN 1371 (the original and correct parents and entry) Thomas MRIN 3319 Thomas MRIN 3339 Yours sincerely Anne Wiltshire -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
