Personal choice, of course, but I make a habit of saying NOT A MATCH. It has the advantages of being probably true, and of being recoverable-from.
In one database I have 15 men named William Harmison; I have full dates on one, two of 3 dates on a half-dozen or so, no dates on half-dozen or so, and only 1 date on the rest. If I knew which ones were matches, I wouldn't have so many, so NOT A MATCH. A computer can insist on having an answer, but since it can't possibly know if its getting the correct answer. Cheryl grayscot2 wrote: > > I'm trying to trace families in 17th& 18th Century Scotland where the > names in each are James, William, John, Robert, so I have picked up a lot of > unrelated individuals in hopes of eventually sorting them into families. > When I try to merge an updated gedcom with the original unrelated tree, I get > hundreds of duplicates of course which Legacy 8 Deluxe insists I sort out. > Even though it would take a lot of time to do that manually, I'd be willing > to do that, except that it is impossible because there is no way to decide > which are the duplicates before I've made most connections. > > What do you do about them in your single surname study? > > I'm using Legacy 8 Deluxe, latest version, Win7 64bit. > > > > ============================================================================ > From: Kurt Kneeland [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014 03:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Single Surname Study II > > I have a one-name database of sorts. I’m compiling everything I can find on > Kneeland’s. However, I also include all my cousins (of any surname) and all > descendants of any Kneeland regardless of surname. I currently have 2 > primary lines – descendants of Edward Nealand/Kneeland of Ipswich and the > descendants of John Kneeland of Boston. I use Tag 1 and Tag 2 to mark these > lines. I also have 30 or so lines of descent from Kneeland Irish immigrants > of the 1800’s that I group under Tag 3. And also several African-American > Kneeland lines and a variety of undetermined/unattached lines that I don’t > have tagged, but could except that I’m using my other tags for other purposes. > > Another tool that would appear to apply but that I haven’t really explored > yet is the Tree Finder tool (View -> Trees). > > From: Poppke Genealogy [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Single Surname Study II > > Mary, Ron, > Thanks for the quick reply. I'm new to this software and don't fully > understand the best way to do things yet. > > In Legacy Deluxe 8.0, I tag unrelated individuals and then create a search > for that tag in the Name List. I'm currently experimenting with adding > fields to the 2nd and 3rd lines of List Report Options to get a format I > like. I think this will give me enough information - Names, birth, death, > etc. - to be able to screen for new individuals or relationships while away > from my computer in a library. > > Since Legacy is a computer (as opposed to server based, I haven't tried > DropBox yet) based program, I'd like to have printed material to refer to on > trips to libraries to aid in research. > > I will look at the Event reports also. > > Is there a way to print multiple Individual Reports at once, using tags? > > Thanks, > > Ted > > -------------- > Hello, > > I'm using Legacy Deluxe 8.0. > > Is there a best practice to organize dozens to hundreds of unrelated > individuals as part of a single surname study? > I'm guessing advanced tagging? > Can I get decent reports? 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
