On 17 Feb 2006 at 20:49, Katherine Bennett wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:10:01 -0500, "Lewis" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Personally, I never change my RINs or MRINs. > > I often jot both name and RIN on paper records. It helps sort out who's > who when there are several individuals with the same or similar names. > If the RINs ever changed, I'd be in a world of hurt.
And for that reason I never Merge individuals in my main file. If I discover a duplicate record, I rename the person in the second one to ZZblank, and then when I add new people I just edit one of the ZZblank records (at the end of the alphabetical file) to keep the RINs in order and in sync. I have subsidiary files for speculative relationships, one-name studies which include (as yet) unrelated branches of a family. In those I put the RINs from my main file into the ID field, so I know it is the same individual. I sometimes do Match/Merge on my subsidiary files (when importing Gedcoms, for example), but I never do it on my main file. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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
