On 17 Nov 2015 at 16:42, William Hudson wrote: > I have discovered a significant mistake in the 17th - 18th century > genealogy of one of my ancestral lines. The good news is that I have been able > to locate reliable documentary evidence that corrects the problem. Rather than > try to monkey around with my existing Legacy database (and risk getting into a > hopeless mess), I was planning to (a) make a copy of my existing file and keep > it (as some of the data might be useful later but not yet a proven > relationship to me). (b) on one of the two files, I will completely delete all > names known to be erroneous and then reenter all the correct data. Not as > awful as it might sound. Any thoughts?
Sounds good. I have occasionally done that, mainly because I use a couple of other programs and try to keep the RINs in sync, so when I discover an error I don't delete it, but either correct it in place, or unlink and reuse the RIN for someone else. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [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://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
