Ian T. You should check for duplicate parents. Under misc in search there is a check box. If this is a silly suggestion please just ignore it. It is however what caused me to get a similar error.
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > I discovered the cause – I had sister and brother married. Fixed that. > Problem solved. > > > > It probably needs Legacy program to suggest to user what the cause might > be – and, for the check/repair to generate an error for this condition and > suggest its cause. > > Though of course the situation is not unheard of. If it is true, what > should Legacy FT do? > > > > In this case for my data – it was untrue. > > > > Ian Thomas > > Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Ian Thomas > *Sent:* Sunday, 18 June 2017 11:57 AM > *To:* Legacy User Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Descendant report problem > > > > I have a weird error message when running a Descendant report at 5 > generations – OK at 4 generations. Legacy v9 flags a marriage and gives me > MRIN and the couple’s names. > > The message is that it has processed the marriage 3 times, and there is > danger of an endless loop. > > I backed up, ran Check/Repair (see my previous posting to this list, about > same-sex relationsship reporting as a possible problem), and after > re-running the check/repair I have tried the same Descendant report – with > the same result. > > The error message allows 2 more loops before stopping – I chose that, and > printed the page on which that error occurs (very grateful for that > error-checking coded into Legacy, which allows some clarification). > > The printed report shows the wife twice (her RIN 710) at gen 5, so I > checked her parents children: she is the last born, no ‘duplicate’ (and I > would not expect the RIN number to be duplicated). Her DOB is too soon > after birth of previous child (but that’s the data I have, and I have seen > that problem before with no affect on Descendant report). > > > > All I can think of doing is to unlink her from the marriage and her > parents, and relink. Any other suggestions to try? > > > > Ian Thomas > > Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia > > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r.) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario
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