Brian, Read my posting more carefully. I did not suggest that the Legacy Find Duplicates always found real duplicates. It does a fair job but the user should always review the possible duplicates where differences exist. Nothing I suggested contradicts what you stated. The original question was not that Legacy tag only real duplicates but that it might tag the possible duplicates. It is assumed that those tags might be used for further evaluation of those records, probably to be sure they are actually records that should be merged. If you read the rest of my post, you'll discover a work around for tagging the possible duplicates albeit a little complicated. Ron Taylor
________________________________ From: Brian/Support <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to tag potential duplicates Ron, Just as the Help file says the person who remains in the file AFTER the merge will have the selected tag. As I explained to the original posting, if you apply a tag to potential duplicates globally how would you sort out this situation: Use the Sample File that comes with Legacy: Tools > Merge > Find Duplicates Continue, Use the Normal search criteria and click continue There are four sets of possible duplicates found RIN 22 with RIN 83 RIN 74 with RIN 155 RIN 44 with RIN 155 RIN 4 with RIN 7 (His child) A Tag all duplicates applied without human intervention would not let you know that RIN 155 is a possible duplicate of two different RINs nor that one of the pairs are a Parent and Child. In fact none of these "Potential" duplicates are "real" duplicates but it helps to point out the risks of a global, automatic marking of individuals with a tag as potential duplicates. A review by a human comparing these results means none of them should tagged. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 07/07/2013 8:51 AM, Ron Taylor wrote: > Click the Help button in that "Additional Options" to see this text > > Tagging Duplicates > Select this option to put a tag on individuals when they are merged. > This tags only the individual who remains after a pair is merged. You can > select > the tag number to mark. You can also choose to have any existing tags of that > number cleared before the merge process begins (the tags are cleared when you > click Continue). This would then let you later display a Search List of all > the > merged people by showing just the individuals tagged with that > number. > > > I have not been successful at using this feature. It would be nice if the > possible duplicates were tagged before a merge as you have described. If > this documented feature did work you could make a copy of the file, perform > the merge with this box checked, and then search for the "remaining" > individuals to see who they are. You might even use the Intellishare Merge > to combine the copied file with tags set back into the main file so that the > tags will be set on the duplicates that will survive the merge. I can't see > any easy method to tag the individuals who will not survive the merge except > using the "Compare Two Files for Duplicates" using the main file and the copy > after duplicates merged. It can set a tag on each individual that is in both > files (one at a time) and then when finished those without a tag are the ones > that were deleted by the merge process in the copy. > Ron Taylor 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
