Cathy, thanks for taking the time to test this. I have been using the default of 5, so that does not explain why I am discovering these missed duplicates. Given your results, I will try to do a more controlled test, myself, when I get a chance. I'm wondering if it is a quirk in the drag & drop process, rather than in a global find-duplicates process. (I.e., I'm dragging in descendants of an individual, where I already have some of these descendants. The process starts with a merge of the individual, followed by duplicate checking that is constrained to the imported descendants and spouses.)
Ward -----Original Message----- From: Cathy Pinner Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Find Duplicates does not handle middle initials Hi Ward, I just tried this by adding a Ruth E. and a Ruth Emma to the Sample file in Legacy 8. I had to turn off the duplicate checking on entry at Option 2.1 With the default - check Given Names for a length of 5 - they were presented as possible duplicates. Increasing that to 7, they weren't presented, as expected as the names aren't identical for 7 characters. Reduce the number to 6 and again they are presented as possible duplicates. So how many characters have you set as the criteria? Cathy > Ward Walker <mailto:[email protected]> > Thursday, 12 June 2014 6:13 AM > I am having some problems merging two family files (gradually, using > drag and drop). Legacy is detecting most duplicate individuals for me > to manually reconcile and merge. However, it is not bringing to my > attention individuals such as the following: Ruth E. Cook and Ruth > Emma Cook (same parents, same birthdate). Yet, there is no problem > with Celia Cook and Celia Myrl Cook – they are detected as possible > duplicates. > I have looked at the options panel for finding duplicates and cannot > see anything that would control this. Am I missing something, or > should I log a request with Support? > Ward 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
