Dennis Kowallek today added some SQL scripts to LTools that can identify and tag the phantom marriages. I used them successfully to find an correct about 225 of these erroneous marriage records. I know for certain that most of them were not created by a mistaken save of a marriage record but the majority of them were from GEDCOM or PAF imports. I'm glad that Dennis developed scripts that aid in removal of these marriages.
One more place that a phantom marriage produces an error can be seen by highlighting the non-blank spouse, then clicking "name list" and viewing the "family" tab with the blank spouse highlighted. If the non-blank spouse is male then the "Husband List" button will show because there are no female spouses. If the non-blank spouse is female then it still shows the "Husband List" button even though there is no record for a husband. I hope that Millenia makes the improvements that Brian has suggested. One more that has always been annoying is changes to the notes during a merge followed by "skip" or "not duplicates" or "close". The notes changes are saved immediately instead of waiting until the "merge" is clicked. Ron Taylor --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Brian L. Lightfoot <br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: > From: Brian L. Lightfoot <br...@the-lightfoots.com> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 -- Young Children have Unknown Spouse > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:19 PM > I agree that Legacy is not > "accountable"; I'm just trying to make it appear so that > some users don't get the wrong impression when their reports > start spitting out strange information (all due to the > user's carelessness). Regardless, Legacy will surely get the > blame from them. How does that saying go...garbage in, > garbage out. > > That being said, let's go ahead and see if Legacy is even > consistent in this not-accountable-for-user-carelessness. > > Open up a Notes Window for any individual. Make sure there > is nothing entered or visible in the notes window. Now, > let's carelessly click on SAVE. > > Did Legacy go ahead a save a blank note record? No! The > Notes Icon still remains grayed out meaning there is nothing > there. Legacy was smart enough to realize that the user did > not type anything in the window and even though SAVE was > clicked, Legacy did not create any file data. Why does it > create something out of nothing if that window happens to be > the Marriage Info window? > > This is not an earth-shattering event in the overall use of > Legacy. I just think it's some programming code that can be > cleaned up to make for a better user experience with the > program. > > Brian in CA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:31 PM > > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 -- Young Children > have Unknown > > Spouse > > > > Brian L. Lightfoot wrote > > >You missed the part of the thread wherein it was > mentioned > > accidentally > > >or un-intentionally. > > > > I didn't. I just don't think Legacy should be > accountable for every > > accidental or unintentional act of the User. > It's easy enough to see > > that a person has a marriage - symbol after the name > in Child List, > > Spouse icon lit up. > > -- > > Jenny M Benson > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 > 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
