Michele,
I am researching immigrants from Zeeland to the USA since 1983. Yes I have occasionally imported persons via gedcom, however, I sense a certain attitude, as if I belong to a group that is adding persons at will and not being serious about their research. If that is true, then I strongly resent that, but I might be mistaken. Ron Tayler explains the way that ghost marriages can be removed. This is not completely true. Although they no longer show up in the marriage list, they still exist in the tblMR and the pointer in tblIR of the sibling remains as well. Please check my email for the example given. I don't think I am supposed to use Access for editing each sibling with ghost parents to remove the Ghost NRIM and subsequently remove the record from the tblMR. We need to find a solution. Kind regards, Ton van Heusden Van: Legacy Family Tree Support [mailto:[email protected]] Verzonden: donderdag 14 november 2013 16:34 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: [267-1A17A378-0407] Unknown parents Ton, The way you get these "ghost" marriages is by either selecting the marriage screen and then Xing out instead of cancelling when you decide not to add anything to the marriage screen or you will get them when you import or merge files into your file. I suspect the latter is the case for you since you have over 180,000 people in your file. Here is an excellent post that Ron Taylor did on the Legacy Users Group on this topic. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg26118.html He explains how to remove the ghost marriages but also gives a word of warning about if you have siblings attached to unknown parents. If you delete those parents then your siblings tie will be broken. Sincerely, Michele Technical Support Legacy Family Tree Sign up for our genealogy webinars (free) or view past webinars at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). _____ From: "Ton van Heusden" <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:06:32 -0700 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Unknown parents What is the solution? It is a technical story, but I think important. Obsolete data should not remain in the database. Situation: In my database are a number of persons without existing parents. I can't delete them, they have no IRN, but show up in the marriage list with both unknown. The "marriage" does not contain any data in any of the notes or date fields. The only thing that I can do is disconnect the child from the parents or disconnect the marriage connection of the non existing parents. The use of compressing or repairing the file has no effect on the number of people, which makes sense, because they don't exist in the tblIR.. Example of marriage with MRIN 474901341 Ouders: This is how they show up in the Legacy marriage list. After removing the marriage connection, they disappear from the marriage list. After each action I executed a repair. Looking in the databse through Access I noticed that the marriage record is still there. although it should be removed. tblMR IDMR IDIRHusb IDIRWife MarSD MarEndSD IDLRMar NoChildren Notes Updated MarD MarEndD NotMarried IDMS 474901341 0 0 -99999999 -99999999 1 0 0 0 1 Also in the record of the daughter in the tblIR the pointer to the marriage is still there also. : I have the feeling that the program is not marking records for deletion and removing data where it should. Hope you can correct it. Kind regards, Ton van Heusden Info: It is not the very last update. Using Windows 7 Ultimate including latest updates. Nederlandse Legacy website: http://www.LegacyNederlands.com Downloadpagina (wachtwoord: legacy7): http://www.LegacyNederlands.com/download.html Om u af te melden van deze groep gaat u naar: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists_Nederlands.asp Berichtenarchief : http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
