Jay, What do you expect when you have two systems of ID in the same database?
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ "J.M. "Jay" Ingalls " <[email protected]> wrote: >If you use the ID Number field in Legacy, have you tried a search for >duplicate ID numbers? > >Go to; My Toolbar, Merge, Find Duplicates, Special Duplicates Search, >Find duplicates using only User ID number, Continue. > >I ran the search for duplicate ID numbers and found 57, 416 duplicate ID >numbers per the Legacy version 8 software. I have ran it in the past >with previous versions of Legacy and did not find many. When I go to the >Name List, I only have 66,194 people in my database! > >I do have duplicate ID numbers starting with "B", because I imported >data long ago for Ingalls listed in Burleigh's 1903 book on the Ingalls. >The researcher who added the data to her genealogy program added ID >numbers starting with B for Burleigh to indicate the number came from >his book. The book was published in 1903, so many of the individuals she >added to her data are descendants of some one in his book. She handled >that by using the number for the last ancestor listed in Burleigh plus a >dash number indicating the number of generations an individual is >removed from "B1". So, there can be many descendants with the same ID >number such as B1222-10. > >I did a search for ID numbers starting with "B" and found 3,948 People >with ID Numbers starting with B. Not all of them are duplicates! > >I did a fairly extensive audit of all my ID numbers and found very few >identical ID Numbers, except for the Burleigh numbers. Looks to me like >there is a software problem. > >Jay Ingalls > > > >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
