The suggestion in our tracker goes a step further than this. If the developers were to implement this, you would be able to assign events in either direction so that each person got the events that belong to him. It is a true reverse merge. I have no clue of course if this will be implemented but it is in the tracking system for them to consider.
Michele On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 13:26 Carl Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > It is easy to copy a person where most of the information is the same. > Bring up the person you want to copy, and ‘save’ them. then bring up the > blank individual, and click on the title of each data point you wish to > copy. Legacy will copy the last entry into each data point you click on. It > even works if you want to copy a person into another database. > > Carl > > *From:* Michele Lewis > *Sent:* Saturday, June 30, 2018 11:49 AM > *To:* 'Legacy User Group' > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate a person > > > You will need to do this by hand but there is a suggestion in our tracker > for the developers to consider adding a “split” feature where you can split > someone into two people and assign the correct info that you have to the > right person. > > > > > > Michele Simmons Lewis, CG® > > Legacy Educator > > Legacy Family Tree/MyHeritage > > [email protected] > > www.legacyfamilytree.com > > > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> *On > Behalf Of *Chris Hill > *Sent:* Saturday, June 30, 2018 11:49 AM > *To:* Legacy User Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Duplicate a person > > > > Hi > > > > Well, this is the reverse of the normal merge questions. > > > > What I need to do is to make a copy of an individual. The sequence is > that I found a census record for him with the birth listed as being 1833. I > then found a baptism record for him in 1830, so assumed that the date in > the census was wrong. Now I have found another baptism record for him 1833. > So, it looks like they had two children, for first of which died within a > couple of years. Slightly complicated because there first few children were > baptised in their home parish in Lancashire, while they were working in > Cheshire, and the later ones were baptised in Cheshire. > > > > Now I know that it is reasonably easy for me to just make a new record > with the correct data, but I was wondering if anyone else had this problem, > especially where they had more information on the person or had merged to > records in error and therefore needed to split him into two people. > > > > Regards > > > > Chris > > > > -- > > 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]/ > -- > > 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]/ > -- Michele Tech Support Legacy Family Tree [email protected] <[email protected]> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/>
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