I think the OP knows that they are the same person. The issue is how Legacy nominates potential duplicates. You can’t win: if you include given name in the criteria, you can miss some duplicates. If you exclude the given name, then you get way too many nominations to wade through and dismiss.
Some search engines are sophisticated enough to compare names that are possible matches even though not exactly the same. This is helpful, for example, when first and middle names are reversed, or when initials are used. Or Charles vs. Carl. I don’t know to what extent the Legacy duplicate-finding algorithm does this, but perhaps improvements are in order. Along the same lines, when a given name is missing, I get many bogus duplicate nominations. I know there is a setting for this, but I think Legacy could look slightly further at the family relationships to see that most of these cannot be duplicates. Ward From: John Groome Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate search An interesting question/scenario. For what it's worth, I have two or three persons on my database called Johanna who were originally from Germany and after settlement in NZ were called Anna. I have found many such examples where immigrants have anglicised their names eg Carl became Charles/Charlie and Wilhelm became Bill. So I would not rule out either option of whether they are the same or different until I had more information. (My current suspicion is they are the same person) John NZ On 25 April 2013 09:03, Larry Lee <[email protected]> wrote: I would agree that they are probably different people. Depending on the number of individuals in the database I would think it unlikely that they would have the same birth and death dates, but it is possible. I don't know if it would, but this could be something that would get flagged by running a potential problems report. Might give that a try. Larry Lee [email protected] On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:19 PM, David Abernathy <[email protected]> wrote: How can you say these two entries are the same? Johanna Maria Schampers born 2/8/1884 died 12/23/1974 Anna Schampers born 2/8/1884 died 12/23/1974 With two different first and middle names I would even say that they were two different people. Just because they both were born and died on the same dates, does NOT make them the same person. 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