A real loop, where someone is their own grandfather, will continue no matter what option you chose. Repeating lines can be eliminated as Terri suggested. I do have a few old royal pedigrees. When I try to do an Ancestor report, it will show "This individual has now been processed 3 times. You could be in an endless loop." I set the "warn again after" to 10 and click "Continue Processing". It will stop again, showing another RIN that has been encountered multiple times. I set it to 20 and again it stops. I set it to 30 and again it stops. I set it to 40 and finally it will finish. That means that I descend from someone in the database more than 30 different ways. I set it to 31 and it finishes also so the magic number of duplicate encounters for my lineeage is 30. If I had tried higher and higher numbers and never found a limit to the duplicates being encountered, then I would know that there is a true endless loop. For example, if I had entered the max for the field of 250 and it still bounced back then there is probably a loop and not simply multiple lineages to the same person. I doubt that there are real pedigrees with more than 50 duplicate encounters and that would most likely require a very large database. A typical family file may only have a few of these duplicate lineages. Anyway, by noting the RIN displayed, you can investigate descendants of that RIN to see if there are any parents younger than their children. Those are the real loops.Ron Taylor
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Terri Brown <[email protected]> wrote: From: Terri Brown <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] I'm getting an Endless Loop message To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 1:28 PM Hi Brian, I get this message as well because I have several instances of intermarriages - cousins marrying cousins. The way to stop it is to go to Options > Customize Display. Check the box next to Don't Repeat Duplicate Lines. This should solve the problem. Terri From: Brian Lehman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:10 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] I'm getting an Endless Loop message Hello all, I am having a problem I've never encountered before. I just entered a large generational family. While going through the Descendant tab, I get a pop up, that says: "This marriage has now been processed 6 times. You could be in an endless loop. Note this MRIN # and check it later. and Warn after 5 encounters". I continue and get the same message, this happens on MRIN 746 and 336. Two messages then continues as normal. On MRIN 746, is a married couple, Sam and Hannah, they had 8 children, one of which is Elmer, and Elmer is the MRIN 336. He has no wife but a son. I've checked all relationships, marriages, children etc for these 2 MRINs, everything looks good, ran all "File Maintenance", and still the problem continues. I now have no Idea where to check this or how to fix this. I would appreciate any advice on dealing with an "Endless Loop". Than You, Brian Lehman New York 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
