Hi Dennis. I just sent you an explanation that will probably answer the question about the Record Change. Remember I asked about this on the list, but no one apparently knew the answer at that time, so I got no information that helped me at that time. The gedcom that my cousin sent me had an event called RECORD CHANGE for thousands of persons, but I found these to be of no use to me on my website, so I attempted to globally delete them. Well, what I did was to SEARCH and REPLACE and blank the RECORD CHANGE NAME out, but the dates remained. These then became NAMELESS events with a date and nothing else.
The other thing, however, which might be related - I believe you are mistaken on, Dennis. There are indeed dates that come up when a FIND Event-Dates is entered for after 2009, for example, and when I go to the record, these dates are not there. If you look at that screen shot that this list will not allow me to send, I documented that fact. So, anyway, whether this is a bug or not, I'll let you and the other pros decide. Perhaps legacy should not allow one to BLANK out an event name and leave only a date in its place - so that could be considered a bug, I suppose. Thanks for your hard work in helping me find out what is going on. I've got about 13,000 records to go through. Of course, in retrospect, I could have just not exported the RECORD CHANGE event to our website. I'm still learning. Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org On 9/12/2011 8:56 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:27:38 -0400, Jerry<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone. Has anyone on the list ever seen where Legacy would >> embed invisible dates that show up when you do a SEARCH and REPLACE, but >> when you go to the record, the dates are simply not there. I'm sure it >> has something to do with the gedcom import I got from my cousin to >> combine with our master tree. I thought maybe it was the date modified >> or date imported, but that is not it. >> >> What I'm doing is to put in the search function to SEARCH and REPLACE >> (without actually doing the replace) for EVENT-DATES where the date >> contains 2010 anywhere in the field. I get quite a large number of hits >> such as 8 September 2010, but none of the records has those dates in the >> record anywhere I can physically see. Weird thing I would like to get >> to the bottom of. Thanks, if you can help. > > Jerry sent me his database off list. > > I looked at the example of a Search& Replace that he sent. It found a > date of 26 August 2010. There WAS a marriage event for that individual > with that date. So the date is NOT invisible. I can see it in Legacy. So > this is not a problem. Jerry just forgot to look at marriage events. > > As to Jerry's 2nd problem... > >> Another facet to this problem (and why I started to do these searches) >> is that there are some dates that do show up, such as 27 August 2010, >> etc., but they are attached to EVENTS that are completely blank. So, I >> simply delete them, but I'm not sure how I can globally delete them >> because there is no event name. Everything is blank except the dates. > > He has a bunch of marriage events that are pointing at IDET=1. IDET=1 is > a reserved record. There should be no rows in tblER that point to > IDET=1. I looked at the GEDCOM that he imported his data from. It was > FTM as I recall. I loaded this GEDCOM into Legacy 7.5 and went to one of > the couples that had the bad marriage event (IDET=1). It imported fine > and the marriage event was assigned IDET=59, which was the event type of > "Record Change". Jerry's file with the bad event did not have a event > type for "Record Change". The only way I could cause this to happen in > Legacy is to go to View|Master Lists|Event Definition and combine the > "Record Change" event type with the blank event type at the top of the > list. The fact that Legacy lets you do this could be considered a bug > and should be reported. > > I know what Jerry's next question will be ... but I'll wait until he > asks it. :-) > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
