Great point Jenny!!! 🙂 On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:12 AM Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote:
> I have just watched a Legacy webinar on document filing and whereas > there was a lot of good sense spoken, one thing stuck out to me as > ridiculous. > > The present prefaced her document filenames with the surname, forename > and year of birth of the person concerned. he went on to say that if > there was more than one person with the same names and date of birth she > would include the death year. That's fine if you *know* the birth > and/or death year of people and in the days when choice of names was > limited and infant deaths numerous, it would not be surprising to have > 2 people of the same name being born and dying in the same years. And > how often does one not know the birth and/or death year of a person? > > Why on earth not use the unique identifier provided by Legacy - the RIN. > This is generated by Legacy every time a new person is added to a file > (but the user has the option to swap these around if desired.) Smith, > John 1234 or Doe, Jane 5678 is never going to be confused with anyone > else and is never going to change - even if you find out one day that > you have the wrong birth/death year for that person > > I defy anyone to come up with a good reason why using the RIN is not the > best way to uniquely identify a person in a Legacy fie. (There's a > challenge!) > > -- > Jenny M Benson > Wrexham, UK > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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