Andrew Don Quigley’s method works well, without dramas. I have done exactly that – mainly when I have included a lot of text descriptions in the Notes, and don’t have media attachments/links or sources, stories, etc.
Those provisos have never been a problem, because the “duplication” scenario (for me) has been one of a lot of uncertainty about the individuals at that point. However, as noted by Leon Chapman (his method creates a new Legacy database, rather than just exporting to a GECOM file), make sure the Tag that you use has been “cleared” – not already in use for other individuals that are not those you want to ‘duplicate’). However, you may need to consider this. The .GED file created will not have links to or “contain” media files (images, etc and other files treated as “media” by Legacy). Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Robbie Sent: Monday, 3 June 2019 8:45 AM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Anyone know of a quick way to duplicate an individual? Wasn't wanting an submerge, but a quick duplicate individual. Pieces of info belonged to each of the 2 real people. So I wanted to then choose what to delete in the original and new person definitions. Thanks, Andrew On Jun 2, 2019 16:19, Ian Macaulay <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It would also be nice to be able to click on a button and have the searched fields made into a new record. I would think it a similar approach to duplication. Ok Perhaps not :-) But Perhaps if You did a select, save, create new (Cntr N) and then Copy Cntr R until data runs out , The majority of Fields would be created in a new Rin. Ian Ian On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 3:07 PM <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This approach seems to work: Tag the individual(s) you want to duplicate. Export a gedcom with only the tagged individuals included. Import the gedcom into your family file - the duplicates will have new RINs, separate from the "originals." Don Quigley 1207 Huntington Lane Safety Harbor, FL 34695 (H) 727-330-7030 (M) 925-367-5609 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Andrew Robbie Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2019 2:25 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [LegacyUG] Anyone know of a quick way to duplicate an individual? Hi, I've been doing a lot of intense updates recently trawling probate records. One thing I'd love to be able to do quickly when having to split current information stored against 1 person into 2 separate people (same name, just a new RIN) is duplicate my current individual record... I looked for any such feature but could not find anything. Any others know how to do this? Thanks so much, Andrew ROBBIE -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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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