My Bad. I missed that Dennis specified "parental" icon. Previous experience had been with associated spouse duplications and two cases occur very close to the root of the tree, so I guess I got fixated on the wrong icon when I hit the traversal problem later. I was also wrong about Legacy finding the problem(s). Both kinds occur and can be found by separately searching "multiple spouses" and "multiple parents", inspecting each hit for whether a problem exists, and if so, the type and severity.
Fixing the "multiple parents" seems fairly easy. Click the parent icon, select "unknown and unknown" and click "unlink from child", repeating as necessary. Where there were no parents anyway, I also unlinked the final "unknown and unknown", with no obvious problem but I don't know if that breaks anything. If not, it's an answer regarding the "Unknown parents " thread which went by awhile back. I remember that fixing the duplication problem was a royal pain when I did it before, and experiment now underlines that it should be approached with extreme caution. In my tree, RIN 09 was married to RIN 10, the spousal icons incorrectly showing "2" and the screens invoked by clicking the icons each showing two instances of the other's name and RIN. Checking on the family View of their child did NOT show multiple parents. I then returned to the parents, clicked the spousal icon of RIN 09 and clicked "unlink". That changed the "husbands of.." screen to show RIN 09 still with two spouses, but now RIN 210 and RIN 145, right sex, BOTH with asterisks. No reason at this point not to experiment some more, but I'm pretty sure that I will have to fix that by reloading the backup... Thanks Dennis, and my sincere apologies for the confusion which was my fault. Without the help of an expert in the database, we would not now know that there are two problems, apparent duplication of couples, and apparent multiplication of "unknown and unknowns", without duplication of any actual parents but with possible displacement of same from preferred status. Thanks too Richard, and others who posted. kb 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
