And RIN's and MRIN's were visible in 1988 in PAF 2.0 - so Legacy isn't the first to make them available. (and Legacy uses seperate keys in the tables...)
That said - I still don't use them. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jim Walton <[email protected]>wrote: > RIN, MRIN, Database Key, whatever you want to call them, they are > internal pointers used by a database to speed up organizing and > searching. Every record is given a sequential number when it is added > to the database. This is what is being called RIN. When two records > are joined as a marriage, a separate key is used to link the two > records together. Makes for much smaller and faster databases. These > numbers are internal to the database and were never intended for human > consumption. > > This is the first time I have seen a database making those numbers > available to the user. The numbers are essentially meaningless to the > user and are subject to change depending on what happens to the > database. To try to use them for other record keeping is asking for > trouble. Personally, I have turned them off so I don't even see them. > 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
