C'est la vie, Jack :-) Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-----Original Message----- From: Jack Earnshaw Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Make a duplicate of a person Rita No, because there are two people. One was born and baptised but died aged 12. The other person had a child and got married. I'd mixed the two up until I found the burial. Now I've got a new brick wall as all the previously thought ancestors aren't any more! Jack -----Original Message----- From: Rita Lynn McKale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 February 2012 13:31 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Make a duplicate of a person Wouldn't unlinking the person and then linking to the correct family accomplish what you want to do? Rita in South Carolina -----Original Message----- From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Make a duplicate of a person On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:31:48 -0000, "Jack Earnshaw" <[email protected]> wrote: >Is it possible to, effectively, "copy & paste" a person to create a second >person with the same name and details? > >I have an ancestor where I have now discovered that I have made a mistake. >His mother was Martha Earnshaw, but not the one I thought it was. Part of >the data refers to the correct person and part of it refers to the >incorrect >one. Rather than create a new person and copy across the required data from >the other one and then delete the incorrect data from the original person, >it would be nice to be able to just duplicate everything and then >selectively delete the bits that refer to the other person. The only way I can think of doing this is: 1) Create a new empty database. 2) Open in "Split Screen View" your original database. Now you have the empty database in one MDI window and the original database in the other. 3) Drag-n-drop the person you want to copy from the original database to the new empty database. 4) Now drag-n-drop the person in the new database back to the old. I haven't tried this, so let us know if it works. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. 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
