Hi Cindy I can' see a reply to your question so far, so here are my thoughts:
1 If you can, identify the next generation where names and relationship are correct, and work back from there. Decide which "spot" you want your existing confused individual to end up in. Check each parent/child relationship and change those to the wrong "spot" (unlink then link parents/children). 2 From what you describe you probably have an individual (or perhaps a couple) either missing, or one individual with the details collected from two individuals (parent and child). It may help to create a temporary individual named something useful (eg "John the father") to get the linkages right before you then add in all the names/dated/places/facts/events etc, or perhaps delete the temporary individual if not needed. I find, when faced with a confusion in my database, it helps me to revert to paper and sketch the outline of what I want to end up with, in this case particularly noting the names and IDs for the surrounding next generations (that are correct) so then I have the extent of the problem defined. I then tick them off adding IDs as I work through the correction process. Cheers, Brett B McL Robinson, Hamilton, New Zealand On 11/11/2014 4:13 a.m., [email protected] wrote: > Please help. > I just recently started using Legacy. I've been using PAF for years > and understand the matching and margining process. > From about 2009 I've been putting my data from my years or research > on Ancestry trees that I've created but I realize now I don't like the > way their connections say they're the source. Plus, I have not added > nor do I plan to upload all the documents I've acquired through the > years. Not to mention I hate the way Ancestry changed it's search. > Anyway, Two of my lines are the same surname so I've always kept them > separate that is until I combined the two in Legacy. while merging I > must have accidently said a son was the father as in my Legacy program > the son is now identified as the father and also as the son. Their RIN > is the same so I can't merge the two. Is their an easy way to correct > this? or do I just have to remove him from my file and the names > associated with him? > Thanks for any help anyone can give me. > Cindy Hofmeister > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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
