I am interested in your comment as I have been following this thread – I use the following (as an example)to identify/name my documents: Smith, John P. [RIN] [MRIN] 1900 Census
All my various items show up by name and numbers together and in order. For the most part I have censuses (federal and state for US, Newfoundland, etc), birth registers, baptism registers, marriage registers, death registers, grave markers/tombstones, military registrations, immigration records, and various Swedish examination records, birth, marriage, death, move in and move out records. I do NOT reuse RINs or MRINs (I believe that is a checkbox in the settings) and I don’t think about these numbers as having to go together by family members so I am unsure how “everything gets messed up . . .” I also have printed to file on my computer a listing of the RINs and MRINs as well as whenever I have deleted any duplicates (since I only have approximately 5,000 individuals this has not really come up much). I would be interested in hearing others thoughts in this regard – have folks lost their RINs in the past, does the method I use create some problems further down the line. Thanks, Teresa From: Laura Dunwald [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 4:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about File ID I should add, that I have found the use of RINs, and MRINs, NOT HELPFUL! Everything gets messed up as one adds new people, or deletes duplicates created when more information on an individual is found, or as was pointed out when new children are found, or when melding files together, and all the other things one does to mess up the RIN numbers. Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about File ID That is why I left the Dollarhide system (it was good but too cumbersome). . The ahentafel numbers were over 30-40 characters long. It was not the only system I used before I bought my first computer, but when the programs created RINs, I no longer needed to deal with them anymore. Rich in LA CA From: Heather Stovold <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 5:08:13 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about File ID The main problem I found with the Dollarhide system (which I used years ago for a while) - is that if you discover a child you didn't know about that changes the numbers of other people you have already entered. Also, the numbers can get pretty long, although the longer the number, the less related the people likely are to you.... How have you found this to work with Legacy? Do you give everyone this number for their ID number? On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Laura Dunwald <[email protected]> wrote: http://eogen.editme.com/DollarhideSystem Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091219-1, 12/19/2009 Tested on: 12/20/2009 8:21:40 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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