Oh lordy. I hadn't had this problem (but then I hadn't done any merges since the update), but since it seemed like it might be due to the new update, I decided to see if I could replicate it.
My my my. First, I didn't think I'd be able to help because I couldn't even get an import (Legacy file to Legacy file) to import at all due to errors. But then I noticed that despite the fact that the import failed and added no people, it did indeed do bizarre and unwonderful things to seemingly every marriage. New spouses were added - sometimes as Unknown, sometimes repeating the real spouses name, and sometimes linking to seemingly random persons (including same gender). Further, these new marriages had dates and locations that had imported from the import file that were totally unrelated - they weren't even attached to the people in the import group. These new locations did show up in the Master Location List, although the Master Name List shows no new people. Then I checked the Master Source List. Tons of new sources, again these were sources unrelated to the import group. I did Show List on one of them - instead of showing names, it said it was used by a particular marriage number. I plugged that number in - got a "marriage" that has *no* husband or wife, but did have marriage notes and sources. The marriage list is full of these empty marriages. It seems that something in the new update (or earlier, since I don't recall when my last merge was), is causing a major disaster. The problem is clearly not a simple merge/duplicate problem, but rather one of bizarre marriage linking (and I don't mean that as social commentary <g>). I would have just thought I was having random error if others weren't having the same thing. Import seems unusable at present. After one of the attempts to import, I got the following error log after running Check/Repair (truncated): Check/Repair of Legacy Family File: C:\Program Files\Legacy\Data\merge test.fdb Date: 07-08-2002 Please check this file very carefully. It's a good idea to run another Check/Repair after you verify the items in this file. ====================================================================== There are 537 Marriage record(s) that do not reference a valid Husband ID: ====================================================================== Marriage ID=137, Husband ID=15. The Husband was removed from this Marriage Record. Marriage ID=138, Husband ID=28. The Husband was removed from this Marriage Record. etc etc etc later in the log: ====================================================================== There are 76 Marriage record(s) where the Husband's Gender is not Male: ====================================================================== Gender of both Husband and Wife are wrong, Swapping positions. Marriage ID=129, Husband ID=3, Wife ID=4 Gender of both Husband and Wife are wrong, Swapping positions. Marriage ID=130, Husband ID=5, Wife ID=6 Gender of both Husband and Wife are wrong, Swapping positions. Marriage ID=132, Husband ID=10, Wife ID=11 **Marriage ID=133, Husband ID=12, Wife ID=21. The Husband's Gender is not Male and he has more than one spouse and cannot be fixed automatically. **You need to find this couple and fix things. --- Other Marriages --- IndiID=12 is a Wife of another marriage, Marriage ID=6 etc etc and still later in the log: several other error types involving marriages. To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
