Brian, Thanks for working on my problem. Is there any file in Legacy that saves anything about ID Numbers like the usr files?
Or any chance the search for ID Numbers is also checking the MRIN or RIN numbers or something else? Or is the search stopping at the dash or something and/or calling all with some particular "character" a duplicate? I have scrolled through thousands of ID numbers and not found many duplicate ID numbers except for the Burleigh numbers being the same for everyone in "Generation # 10", etc. That is only small portion of the reported duplicates. I did find some Ancestry numbers in the ID Number field and moved them<G>. Jay On 3/11/2014 8:45 PM, Brian/Support wrote: > I applied the RINs preceded by "RIN-" to my database of about 5,000. I > had used the ID field years ago when inputting data on my maternal > grandparents descendants from a report created by a cousin at a family > reunion so there were some manual IDs in the file as well, it was a > spreadsheet and I used the line number for each person as their ID > number. A duplicate ID field search found 296 duplicates. The first > dozen I checked were all valid duplicate ID numbers because the > spreadsheet had both husbands and wives on the same line number. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > On 07/03/2014 6:55 PM, J.M. "Jay" Ingalls 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
