Yes it is making sense but then how could there numbering systems work? If the number 500 can be a person or a marriage? Or AM I misunderstanding something here.
I have a feeling I may just stick with the clue numbering systems and reference to it. I have already decided that I need to take things from the beginning and go over all my sources and enter EXACTLY what I have.... This should help me in many way to get on the right tract again. Glenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN - RIN > 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 > 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
