Today, I searched 2 names, a married couple, and there were 157 duplicates. How does one handle something like that. The names are so common, a search when done is well -- 157 choices.
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:12 PM, William Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I remember the IGI records. I have some of them in my file and kept them > because they are the only sources I could find for certain vitals. I plan > to do a search at FS using my old data that reference IGI and older LDS > numbers since they're probably no good now. I'm going to also wait until > FS cleans up the duplicates. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John B. Lisle [mailto:leg...@tqsi.com] > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 5:29 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When you die / GEDCOMS / Legacy fancy features > > Bill, > > One of the many items that FamilySearchTree imported from the IGI were the > millions of Parish records and these seem to come over as from > FamilySearch. Those generate many, many duplicates. > > For instance, every baptism creates a mini-family. If a couple have > 10 children in a parish, the couple will be included 10 times, each time > with one child. The couple themselves might be there with their marriage > record. And then each burial record usually becomes a separate record. > > I find the merge capabilities on the FS web site virtually unusable to > sort this data out. > > Does anyone else see this? Does anyone know of a better way to deal with > this? > > john. > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
