Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-16 Thread Evert van Dijken
Tips on Intellishare: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsIntShare.asp and http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/dearmyrtle/index.html Evert 2007/7/16, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Lorraine, Yes your Gedcom imported into Legacy becomes a Legacy family file - BUT it did not originate from y

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-16 Thread Cathy
Hi Lorraine, Yes your Gedcom imported into Legacy becomes a Legacy family file - BUT it did not originate from your own family file so can't be merged with your own family file using Intellishare. All my original comments still apply except that in "It could also be that you need to do more

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-16 Thread Lorraine
Thanks, Cathy, for the comments. I did not make myself clear on that score. It was a GEDCOM file that I downloaded onto my harddrive, then created a Legacy family file just for it, and imported the GEDCOM file into the Legacy family file with the *wizard importer.* When I had checked it over, I u

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread Cathy
Hi Lorraine, To correct a misconception. If you are merging a file you have created from a Gedcom you can't use Intellishare. Intellishare is an internal Legacy merging tool. Each Legacy file in the background gives an intellishare number to each person. It is designed for sharing your Legac

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I don't know yet but we have identified the real problem now. Are you sure they are not in twice 3,4 ? At one time I had similar problems. Here is what I did. (Should take about 1 minute per 'screen'). Look at the Name list and determine no one in your file has 2 RINs. Then look at the Marriage Lis

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread Lorraine
Hi, Richard - thanks for responding! I looked at my file name list, which shows 829 individuals. When I scanned it, it looked about right. But I was surprised at the number, because I remembered the so-called duplicates being a LOT more. I checked the "Not Duplicates" list and discovered 3081. I

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I hope I am reading this wrong, but here is my take. You do not mention the two unique file names you are using for the two files. My example: oldfile.fdb and newfile.fdb I suspect you added the second back unto the first. Look at the Name List for each. What are the count totals for them? How many

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread Lorraine
Thanks, Dawn. I did actually do that the first time, undoing the merge, retreating to the backup file, and then starting the GEDCOM download again. I have double checked the merge options, and they seem normal. Under the Ancestral File and user ID numbers, there aren't any duplicates, but under th

Re: [LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread Dawn Crowley
I have not come across such a problem with Legacy. If I did, I would close the program & start again, using my backup. When "find duplicates" is selected from the "merge" options, the program allows the user to set a variety of acceptable ranges to consider as duplicates. I'd double-check my

[LegacyUG] My Merge Function Has Run Amok!

2007-07-15 Thread Lorraine
I'm using Legacy 6.0 Deluxe. Yesterday afternoon I created a new Legacy family file for a GEDCOM that I downloaded with a large number of entries. I merged it into my existing Legacy family file for a particular line, and the merge appeared fine until I started the find duplicates feature. Every s