Unlink those marriages, not delete. Rich in LA CA --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jerry <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Spouseless Entries > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 7:49 PM > Hi Jenny. Sorry it > took me a while to get back to you - out and > about. Yes, when I pull up the marriage list, I get a > bunch of unknowns > in the husband and wife fields, which is ok when I have > one, but not the > other on the record, but I've got lots of them that are > both husband and > wife unknown with no data at all. I think > I know how it happened. I > went through a major merge process of four branches of our > tree to merge > them together for the purpose of putting them all back on > our website as > one tree. > > When I merged probably about 400 or 500 duplicates > (carefully to make > sure they were the same person), I never thought about what > it would do > with the marriages. I guess it left them > hanging with no data left. > So, it looks like I can safely do the OPTIONS / Remove the > Marriage Link > on the marriage list page. There is no option to > delete a marriage not > attached to any person that I can see. But all the > persons in my > database with relationships seem to be intact. > Does that sound > right? Thanks! --Jerry > > On 11/19/2010 2:55 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > > On 19/11/2010 19:41, Jerry wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a search technique to find any > instances where they > >> might be a "spouseless" marriage in the Legacy > database? In the > >> process of merging files together and checking for > duplicates, I've run > >> across a couple and don't want to miss the rest, > if there's a way to > >> search for them. > > Do they show up in the Marriage List with an MRIN but > blanks for husband > > and wife? > > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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
