Maria, out of curiosity, if you renumber people, are you talking about the number that is automatically assigned to them as you enter in new people?
If that's the case, then what if you decide you want person 111 to be number 10 now? What happens to the person who is already number 10? Do they switch to being number 111? Or am I on the wrong track?
It might not have any relevance, but in my program, Brother's Keeper, if I want one of my own direct ancestors to have a lower number, I have to first vacate the number by entering in a new person and then renaming the person with that number. I just use X for something handy. Then I take that person named X and rename them as my own ancestor. I attach them to the right spouse, parents and children and their old number is now named X and I can use that person as another person in another family. This way I never "delete" a person and never have a false number of people in my database. I usually keep "good" numbers that I want to save for my own ancestors named X until I find an ancestor for that number.
Since I don't use the other programs, this method might not be understandable and a pure waste of time to try explaining it. :-)
As for the size of your database, 2000 seems impossibly small to cause any program to have problems.
I'm at over 240,000 people and over 98,000 marriages and it's as fast as ever.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Genealogy Software
From: GS1138 <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, June 14, 2014 10:40 am
To: "Genealogy, Azores" <[email protected]>
Sorry I wasn't clear.Transcription field: A field where you can enter the transcribe information that keeps it connected with the document. Some have a description field which isn't really meant for adding the transcription.I own the current version of Family Tree Maker. FTM is user friendly good program, but limited (godparents and witness have to be added in comments). I've out grown it. Also, once my tree went past 2000 individual it started having hiccups, freezing, stop working and closing.I was looking at the scrambled data, trying to see if I could fix it or just rebuild. I'm finding the parish birth, marriage and deaths records are now attached to other people or not connected to anyone. If no surname was entered it move the given name to the surname field. It's going to be faster and easier to just rebuild. Thankfully, I saved all my research and data in different forms so it will just take time to get everything back to where it was.I just want to avoid doing this again and find a program that meets my needs.I've down loaded the 30 day trial of TMG and was just looking at Legacy Reviews. RootsMagic doesn't import on-line sources or let you renumber people.Mariaes.
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