Thank you very much Michele. I remember using this years ago, but had
since forgotten about it, and your tip prompted me to do as you
suggested on my big Leavitt db file (186k records), using Find
Duplicates - Special Duplicates Searches tab, and was surprised to see
80 hits! I didn't want to go ahead with the merging without first
looking at each pair to see what I would be getting myself into, so I
asked myself how I was going to get to each pair in an efficient manner.
I decided to use the Merge window in a different way to begin, by
stopping at the first match, and use an option to tag each pair with Tag
1. I would then skip to the next hit, and do the same, continuing in
that way until all 80 pairs had been tagged.
At that point, I had only to open the Name List, and use the Search
button at the bottom to show all Tag 1s. When I finished with one pair,
I could use the Search Results List to get to the next un-merged pair.
This process allowed me to finish the job in a very short time, even
with going back and forth with FS FT to verify details and do cleanup
work there, etc.
Have a great day!
Joseph Leavitt
On 5/14/2017 3:32 PM, Michele/Support wrote:
TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - "Find duplicates using only
FamilySearch ID number"
(Legacy 8 and 9)
I ran this search for the first time today. I am not sure why I never
tried it before. To get to it go to Tools > Merge Duplicates > Find
Duplicates and then select the "Special Duplicates Searches" tab. The
second option is the "Find duplicates using only FamilySearch ID number."
I ran the search and found I have 31 pairs of people sharing the same
FSID. I can see how this could have happened when you consider the
ability to auto match and FSIDs being merged. I printed a list of the
31 pairs and went through them. I left the FSID on the correct person
and deleted the FSID on the wrong person.
Some of the dups I could understand how a mistake could have been made
but some of them were really off. I need to go back and look at the
change logs to see who did the merge and then undo them.
Michele Simmons Lewis, CG
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