Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-13 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
son" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:37 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's Elizabeth Richardson wrote The easiest way for the database to be certain this is a unique record is to assign it a number. Why Legacy tells you these numbers is a mystery

Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-13 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
nd See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:25:22 -0800 I am amazed you even notice what the RINs are! It i

Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-13 Thread Jenny M Benson
Elizabeth Richardson wrote The easiest way for the database to be certain this is a unique record is to assign it a number. Why Legacy tells you these numbers is a mystery to me. Because many users like to have a unique identifier for each record and Legacy in their wisdom decided to give us

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-13 Thread ronald ferguson
ergys/ _ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:25:22 -0800 > > I am amazed you even notice what the RINs are! It isn't something to be used > for any part

Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
d the imported on was about 500 people. Legacy did not create the gedcom. Thanks for your reply Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:04:37 +0100 Mark, Why bother as their order

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Mark K
Thanks for your response, and Cathy's. When I looked at the option in tools, renumber RIN's something didnt click and it looked like I had to renumber each one individually. Anyway worked a treat Thank you both Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering

Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Legacy Deluxe has a Tool to Renumber RINs. (Tools > Renumber RINs) Note it won't use a logical sequence from a starting person to do this - that's not the purpose of RINs - but it will get rid of holes if that's what you mean by "out of sequence." The RINs assigned to an imported Gedcom are co

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Mark K
gt; To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Subject: > RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:04:37 +0100> > > > Mark,> > Why bother as their order is totally unimportant and in any event, > although I haven't checked I would be very

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Kathy Shiell-Stokes
IL PROTECTED] > To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:04:37 +0100 > > > Mark, > > Why bother as their order is totally unimportant and in any event, although I haven't checked I would be very surprised if

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-11 Thread ronald ferguson
Mark, Why bother as their order is totally unimportant and in any event, although I haven't checked I would be very surprised if Legacy created a Gedcom using the RINs. There is no way of automating a change of RINs from within Legacy and with 500,000+ it would take years to do it manually (ev

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-11 Thread Evert van Dijken
Export to a legacy file and select the option to renumber rin's Evert van Dijken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS'sDate: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:45:34 +0800 I have imported into my database a gedcom. The RIN's are totally out of sequence and as the RIN's i