I don't think there is any easy way around this but it sounds like a bug in the intellimerge function.
Is every marriage of people who were merged duplicated? Re the process of removing the duplicate - it's spelt out in the Help. Note that when you relink any children you've orphaned, have the parents in the main view and link to existing child. If you start with the child make sure you link to existing PARENTS and not to existing father or mother or you'll create extra marriages to Unknown. Cathy Married to the Same Spouse More than Once If an individual is listed as being married to the same spouse (with the same RIN) more than once, you may want to remove the duplicate with the fewest or no children. (You probably would not want to remove a duplicate entry if the couple remarried.) Write down the names and RIN numbers of all children by each duplicate marriage before you proceed: To remove a duplicate entry: 1. In Family View, move the couple into the Husband and Wife position. 2. Click the button (lower-left corner of Husband screen). The Wives of... window opens. 3. Highlight the duplicate wife entry to be removed and click the Unlink button. Another window opens showing the spouse and children. 4. Click the Yes button. 5. If these steps resulted in a marriage to "Unknown" it is because there were children linked to the marriage. 6. In the Wives of ... window, highlight the "Unknown" spouse and click Delete. 7. Another window opens, showing the spouse and any children. Click Yes. 8. Reconnect each "orphaned" child by relinking him/her as an existing person already in the file. At 05:25 AM 2/01/2014, you wrote: >On the advise of group members, I was able to >merge several files that I had because I was >worried that I had updated the wrong one here >and there and I didn't want to lose anything. Â >The Intellimerge seemed to work pretty well and >I was able to go through the ones that couldn't >be automatically merged pretty easily. Â Very nice feature! > >I have run into one problem in my new, updated >database: Â I am seeing duplicate marriages and >I'm having to go into each and 'unlink' the >individuals. Â For instance, a married couple >will show up as having 2 marriages to the same >person and I have to change both individuals and >'unlink' them. Â I worry about unlinking the >wrong relationship and then having to recreate >everything and am hoping there might be a better >way to identify and fix this duplication. > >These are not two individuals that need to be >merged, it's only the marriage that is >duplicate; as if someone just married the same person twice. > >Hopefully that makes sense. Â Otherwise, I >suppose I will just unlink as I run into each >one. Â I'm hoping to fix this before downloading >my version 8 upgrade. I was waiting to do the >intellimerge so I could just open my one good >database in Version 8. Â Or maybe Version 8 has >a feature that would be helpful for this duplicate marriage issue? > >Thanks everyone! Â Happy New Year!! Â Kathy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
