Hi Charles, > I was considering renumbering some RINs, until this thread came up. Now I am > not sure whether to do it or not.
What are your reasons for considering renumbering your RINs? These could be important in your decision-making. If it is, as was mentioned earlier, to give someone close to you in your family a lower number, I personally would not bother. The size of the number is quite irrelevant to the relationship to any other person in the database. My partner is number 246 in my database - that is, I entered 245 other people (including myself, of course) before I added him. It means nothing, except that he was the 246th person entered. We'd been together for almost 20 years at that time. My focus was simply elsewhere for a while. Coincidentally, it's an easy number for me to remember, when I want to find him quickly, such as when I'm using the relationship calculator, but that's accidental - and irrelevant, too. Instead look at it this way - at that point, I had 246 people in my database! That was a big number to me at that stage, and a mark of achievement. If we had a child now (that is NOT going to happen!), his/her RIN would be 10752. It says nothing about what that child means to me, it's just a unique number in the file. Nothing else. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> 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
