Laura, if you are slightly able to deal with databases and their structures, then I would suggest considering the Legacy add-on "LTOOLS" for major clean-up, and special tagging (marriages can have up to three tags). Dennis Kowallek, the LTOOLS programmer, has helped others with similar problems. It may be possible to fix all FTM to Legacy conversions that have been messed up by the standard export-import process for all of your 54,000 individuals and 17,000 marriages by direct manipulation of a copy of the Legacy database because you are dealing with only one version of FTM and only one version of Legacy. NEVER work on your original family file with LTOOLS - only use a copy of your original file. Howard Cady
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Johnson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging Marriages This would have been a great idea EXCEPT that once you get the list, you are NOT getting the marriages to tag. You still get a list of individuals to tag. I already have tagged all individuals in the database and have been working my way through cleaning those up. There are 54,833 individuals and 17090 marriages. The results of the trial run for this created a list of 52,601. But if you look at the list, I would be re-tagging several thousand people that I had already cleared the tag on as my search list for the tag I was doing shows that I still have 49,654 still to go from my original tagging. First, let me tell you what I have been doing. I have been entering all of the births, marriages and deaths from 1820 through 1910 from the microfilmed records from a town in Sicily. I also have an online database for this town as well that is fully searchable. I had been a loyal user of FTM from the early 1990's and had beta tested for them for years. After beta testing their 2008 and 2009 versions, it was evident that Ver 16 was going to be the last version I would use due to the changes they had made to the program. The newer versions cannot handle my file and scramble the details on sources when they are imported via gedcom from Ver 16 to FTM 2008, etc. I switched to Legacy on the advise of a friend who had been using it for years. It was far superior to what FTM had in any version that I had used. So I bought the deluxe version and have been using it ever since. But in bringing my files over to Legacy, I noticed that I needed to do cleanup on the way I had been doing things before I started using Legacy and even after I first started using Legacy because I found other options or ways of doing things that were far superior in Legacy and I need to cleanup and redo things that were not done that way in the past. About a year ago, I tagged all individuals in the database with Tag #5. The description for this tag is: FTM Cleanup Needed. I also have tag 2 and tag 3. These tags designate my paternal great-grandfather's family (#2) and my maternal great-grandmother's family (#3). This way I can easily see if a person is included in my ancestral lines or is just someone from the town. I have been working my way through the tag #5 as I enter more data in the file and cleaning them up as I go. But it would be easier if I could see that the marriage tag was cleared because then I would know that I had already changed or fixed any problems with the children and descendants of that line. I wouldn't need to choose each of the children one by one to confirm whether they were done or not. My thoughts were originally to use the marriage list to tag so that I could work through all of the marriage list. I would select the first marriage on the search list, correct both the wife and husband and any children they had and remove the tag numbers for both the marriages and the individuals as I went for that marriage. Then once I had worked through all of the marriages, I could then do a final search to find any unlinked individuals 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
