Do you know how much I love Legacy? Today, I have confirmed that my partner and I are connected, other than via our own relationship, through four marriages - and I'd have never found this if it weren't for Legacy.
You can see an illustration of this relationship here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws03zjvtowp18dc/Wendy%27s%20relationship%20chart.PNG?dl=0 I was a little bored one day a while back, and started playing around a bit on the computer. Ended up running Merge Duplicates in Legacy, and after working through many false matches (due to having 'placeholder' names for many people who I know exist but don't know their names yet) struck this potential match where one Robert Mills had parents recorded, and the other had a wife - but they both had the same birth and death dates. One was connected to me, the other to himself. My sources showed I'd gathered the data for the two men from different places/people. I couldn't find out via those routes if anyone had since connected the two, so I purchased a copy of the marriage registration for the husband and wife, which would name the parents of both parties. That arrived by email today, and voilà ! - it's one and the same man. While I've known all along that this could be a possibility - New Zealand is a very small country and I'm not ruling out a closer connection, since there's a whole lot more to be researched in both our families - this has come as a big surprise. I have had the Merge Duplicates process on hold since I found this, just in case I wanted to undo that merge when I knew the truth (having jumped ahead and done it before thinking about what I was doing, LOL!!), and each time I open my database I'm reminded that it's on hold (and do I want to continue with the merge or keep it on hold?), so now I can move on and continue looking for other potential duplicates. And I would never have known about this if I didn't "go wide" and look beyond the immediate ancestors. I made this connection largely because I made contact with a descendant of the 'middle' family in the chart linked above, who was interested in his connections with my family, and I'd added some of his line to my database so I could place him there. That effort has paid off in a major way. :-) Wendy 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
