There is one unusual way to make use of the User ID. Under Merge Options>Special Duplicate Searches>Find duplicates using only User ID Number the program provides a way to merge based on the contents of the User ID field. If a process were to populate User ID with the Family Search ID or some other field then the option mentioned above could detect those records that need to be merged. It should give similar results to "Find duplicates using only Ancestral File Numbers". This would be helpful when two databases are combined that already contain Family Search ID numbers but do not have the same Intellishare values because they are from researchers that have never collaborated before.
Also, look at the ability that Ltools has to "Set Special User IDs". I have used it for several projects. Ron Taylor ________________________________ From: Brian/Support <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Custom User ID Numbers There is an MRIN User Id. When you create user id's using MRIN's it is those MRIN user ids that are updated with the MRIN not the person's User Id filled with an MRIN. After all if a person has had multiple marriages there are multiple MRINs for them and Legacy would not know which of those MRINs to use for the person's User ID. On 21 August 2013 12:16, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > In Legacy Family Tree 7.5, under OPTIONS / CUSTOMIZE / OTHER there is an > option to “create user ID numbers by having the RIN or MRIN copied into the > field”. I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to get it to use MRINs. > Any advice? Thanks, Allen. 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
