Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-11 Thread DimJim
:* Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:17 AM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file ** ** Thanks Byron, What you describe is what I'm going to do this morning, with the exception of exporting to GedCom - I'm going to export to a new Legacy family file

Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-08 Thread DimJim
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 07, 2013 12:51 PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file ** ** Hi group, Several months ago I messed up my family file when changing a *State* location field to a *City, County, State* location. Somehow, I

Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-08 Thread Ron Taylor
The great thing about Legacy is the Intellishare value which is stored in each individual record.  Often, we have researchers that have somehow been updating different copies of their database and later realized they had a problem.  One lady even had 5 instances of the same database with

Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-08 Thread R G Strong-genes
: Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file Was that the only location goof? If it was do the correction from the Master List, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:00 PM, DimJim dimji...@gmail.com wrote: Nebraska, USA To Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska and it changed everybody from just ,, Nebraska, USA

RE: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-08 Thread Byron
AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file Thanks Byron, What you describe is what I'm going to do this morning, with the exception of exporting to GedCom - I'm going to export to a new Legacy family file. Don't understand why you suggested GedCom

[LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-07 Thread DimJim
Hi group, Several months ago I messed up my family file when changing a *State* location field to a *City, County, State* location. Somehow, I managed to change EVERYONE with that *State* only location to the *City, County, State*. This goof involved nearly 600 persons and multiple Event

Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-07 Thread Wendy Howard
... and if you merge your files before you tidy up the locations, should you have the same location listed twice (once correctly and once incorrectly) you can then merge two locations into one. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] messed up my FDB file

2013-01-07 Thread DimJim
Hey JLB - thanks for the thoughts on just exporting and merging those records changed AFTER my Goof Date. I may just give that a try. I suppose I must export not only those people with changes after Goof Date, but also their spouse, parents, and children to be sure that I get the Linkages done