If you use the same settings each time for your merges, and mark the non-matches as such using the icon in the bottom right corner, they will not come up again as possible matches. Be sure you look at the spouses and children, dates and places, to help decide if you have a match, also the notes, events, etc.
Never merge unless quite sure they are the same person!!! Sometimes I add a note saying who I merged, why, and when, and by whom=me. I use the option to add conflicting info to events quite often. Jay ============================= On 2/26/2014 7:38 AM, singhals wrote: > 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 [kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] >> Sent: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014 03:38 PM >> To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com >> 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:ad...@poppkegenealogy.com] >> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:12 PM >> To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com >> 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/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). 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