Ooooh! That sounds neat and usable. Did not know that you could drag and drop
BETWEEN family files. This work around might be my best way until Legacy adds
the feature.
Many thanks Dave !
From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of
Dave Naylor
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 2:03 PM
To: Legacy
One trick I used many Legacy versions ago to duplicate a few different
individuals probably still works but it may be more complicated than you
wish.
First, as with all experimentation, make sure you have a good backup of
your files.
Open a new *empty* Legacy file -- I named mine "empty.fdb"
Then
If you export to a GEDCom file, you will most likely loose Legacy information,
since the standard is about 25 years old and does not fully support the modern
programs. Export to a new Legacy file ensures all the individuals information
is maintained.
Chap
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Leon
Andrew
Don Quigley’s method works well, without dramas. I have done exactly that –
mainly when I have included a lot of text descriptions in the Notes, and don’t
have media attachments/links or sources, stories, etc.
Those provisos have never been a problem, because the “duplication” scenario
Wasn't wanting an submerge, but a quick duplicate individual. Pieces of info belonged to each of the 2 real people. So I wanted to then choose what to delete in the original and new person definitions.Thanks, AndrewOn Jun 2, 2019 16:19, Ian Macaulay wrote:It would also be nice to be able to
It would also be nice to be able to click on a button and have the searched
fields made into a new record.
I would think it a similar approach to duplication.
Ok Perhaps not :-)
But Perhaps if You did a select, save, create new (Cntr N) and then Copy
Cntr R until data runs out , The majority
Here is a process that would work:
1. Untag everyone in your DB
2. Use Tag 1 to tag only the individual you want to duplicate.
3. Export the Tag 1 person to a Legacy file.
4. Open Legacy file with 1 person you exported and rename the person or make
any other changes you want.
5. Open your
This approach seems to work:
Tag the individual(s) you want to duplicate.
Export a gedcom with only the tagged individuals included.
Import the gedcom into your family file - the duplicates will have new RINs,
separate from the "originals."
Don Quigley
1207 Huntington Lane
Safety Harbor, FL
Regretfully, I do not clearly understand about which you are talking !
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Robbie
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2019 2:25 pm
Subject: [LegacyUG] Anyone know of a quick way to duplicate an individual?
Hi,
I've been doing a lot of intense updates
There is an enhancement request in our tracking system to be able to do
this. Sort of like a reverse
merge. As soon as we have our tracking system back up and running I will
add you as an additional requester. The programmer is in the process of
moving our tracking system over to the new server.
Hi,
I've been doing a lot of intense updates recently trawling probate records.
One thing I'd love to be able to do quickly when having to split current
information stored against 1 person into 2 separate people (same name, just
a new RIN) is duplicate my current individual record... I looked
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