Heather - I partially replied to an incident that happened to my filing system by not observing some of the features of Legacy. If, repeat IF, you base your filing system on any combination of the RIN/MRIN to compliment your electronic Legacy source files to hard copy paper files (you know, the off-line backup of where you got the data), be careful to not get caught in my predicament of allowing the system to change the RIN/MRIN numbers.
I think that somewhere in the upload of a GEDCOM, Legacy will ask if you want the RIN/MRIN's renumbered. I think the default may be that this block is checked - which will change all numbers. Just a 'heads up' or 'caveat emptor', from one who experienced this! Bob ---- Heather Stovold <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't use RINs or MRINS for any organizational method because I have lots > RIN's in the past. I'm not saying that you would lose them in Legacy - but > I have been doing computer genealogy since 1988 (I started with PAF v 2.0) > and although I very rarely change genealogy program, I have on occasion. I > also lost a lot (but not everything) in a house fire and had to get a copy > of my database from a relative I had sent it to. (a good reason for > off-site backups!) - some of my paper files were lost - some were at a > different location. > > I did try the Dollarhide system for a while, but found it eventually to be > more of a pain than it was worth because of the possibility of a persons > number changing if you had the birth order wrong - which I suppose you can > just not change the numbers and have the people out of order on occasion. > > The method that I use that has worked the best was the system my dad > developed long before computer genealogy (about 1972) - and I wish I could > make more of the file folders he silkscreened for it. For the > organization of the people, it is done alphabetically (last name, first > name) by the father, with the birthdate (or estimated birthdate) used in the > ordering for people with the same name. A "tab" (basically 1/2 a file > folder) is put under the wife's maiden name, directing you to the husband's > name. The homemade file folders had a small pedigree chart on it, a to-do > list, a correspondence log, a discrepency chart, and places to put file > flags for various things. > > > > > 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 > > > > > > 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 > -- /Users/robertrunion/Desktop/eMail Icons/signature.pdf 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
