Glenny, This is a good thing to understand, even if you follow my suggestion of NOT using that method.
The marriage number is a separate number from the person number. Consider. My revolutionary war grandmother had thirteen children. We could number them one to thirteen, in birth order, correct? My own children are two: I could also number them one and two, correct? My point is that the list of 1-13 is a separate, independent, list of numbers. It's separate from my own kids 1-2. Every PERSON in your database is a person. Great-grandmother Lucretia is a person; her husband Francis Sr is a person. Their kid #1, Francis Jr, is a person. Therefore Francis Sr, Francis Jr, and Lucretia all get their own RIN number (Record Identifier, i.e., the person's serial number). That family unit has a marriage. That marriage (between Lucretia and Francis Sr) has its own number, the MRIN. My database has about 5000 persons, and so has RIN numbers from 1 to 5000 or so. Those people have about 1700 marriages between them, so I also have MRIN numbers running from 1 to 1700 or so. Francis, Lucretia, and Francis Jr are three people. Three RINs, one marriage, one MRIN. Francis Jr married Abigail. That's RIN number four, and MRIN number two. Their son George (RIN five) married Sally (RIN six, marriage three). Is that making sense? Ed > I sure hope I am not being a pain but I have lots of questions at this point > > In watching tyhe tutorial on th organizing od documentations, it appeared to > me that a mariage (MRIN number) would be a specific number FROM RIN numbers? > What I mean is, I thought that the number 50 if assigned to a marraige > (MRIN) wouldnot be assigned as an RIN? If this is not true, how do you file > things as they sugest? > > Hope that makes sense. > > Glenny > Glenny > > > > AOL IM: glenny > Yahoo: glennycap > ICQ 45337016 > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
