My coding system was well established long before Legacy, so RINs and MRINs are basically useless to me, apart from their functione within Legacy. I have two different numbering schemes, one for ancestor projects and one for descendant projects.
For ancestors I use the ahnentafel numbering system (home person is 1, father is 2, mother is 3, etc.). I precede the ahnentafel no. with a two character alpha code that tells me which ancestor project. Some people are in more than one, and they have a number for each project. For example, RR stands for Richardson-Rand, my mother is the home person, and her maternal grandmother is RR7. I store the number in the User ID field in Legacy. My filing system is based on these numbers. For descendants I use a unique code that is a combination of surname, generation, and year of birth. I sometimes have to add something to avoid duplicates. I store the number in the AFN field in Legacy. My filing system is different. Shirley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shirley York Anderson [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~syafam/ http://myfamilybrickwalls.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: Marg Strong <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, September 1, 2012 2:35:58 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again Jenny, it's just the OCD in me. But I can see where it isn't really possible especially when branching out more. I just started trying to catch up on entering data and arranging my folders and find myself overwhelmed. I thought I might arrange the documents/media etc for families and use the MRIN as part of the folder name. Still haven't figured out a way to use the UserID unless I just accept the default. In that case, renumbering would be a nightmare since it would change the ID's. Thanks for the heads up. ________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 6:55 AM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again > >On 01/09/2012 10:44, Marg Strong wrote: >> That lets me see the numbers and I could print them. I finally found it >> in help where I should have looked from the first. I wanted to renumber >> the whole list since some of the main people had high numbers. > >Just curious, but why does it matter if "some of the main people had >high numbers"? I have been researching for nearly 10 years and started >in Legacy by entering the people from a hand-written tree compiled by a >relative. Because of that, one of my 6th Great Grandfather is number 1 >but another of my 6th Great Grandfathers I only found a month ago so his >RIN is 4517. (I happen to be RIN 221.) > >If you want "important people" to have low numbers are you going to >renumber every time your research throws up another direct-line ancestor? > >I use RINs as part of the UserID and use the RIN or UserID to identify >everyone in documents or pictures and in file names. As long as I use >the right number it doesn't matter a jot to me whether the number is >high, low or in-between. > >-- >Jenny M Benson > > > >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 > > > > > 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 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
