V800-414.

120,902 individuals.

No User ID Duplicates.


C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: March 11, 2014 05:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Duplicate ID Numbers Software Problem?

Curious.  I tried on my database which is about the same size and it only found 
12 duplicates and all seem to be correctly identified.  The duplicated id shows 
in the title line of duplicates window.  Did you notice anything strange about 
the ID #'s it was displaying as duplicate?  Were they truncated?  Ignoring the 
alpha component?

-----Original Message-----
From: J.M. "Jay" Ingalls [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 5:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LegacyUG] Duplicate ID Numbers Software Problem?

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



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