I am a new user of Family Origins and I have a problem. Somewhere along the way, I entered a child twice and he appears twice under the parents. I tried to merge duplicates but the program does not recognize them as duplicates. On the 'Select Person" list, he only appears once. When doing a report, "Books", he appears twice. My question is If I delete one will the other stay? Thanks in advance for your help. Carol

Carol, if you go to edit, then to delete and click on individual, that will delete the extra child, make sure the one you want deleted, is highlighted Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. and/or W. Scouler" <wcscouler@rcn.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: [FO] Duplicate names > I am a new user of Family Origins and I have a problem. Somewhere along the way, I entered a child twice and he appears twice under the parents. I tried to merge duplicates but the program does not recognize them as duplicates. On the 'Select Person" list, he only appears once. When doing a report, "Books", he appears twice. My question is If I delete one will the other stay? Thanks in advance for your help. > > Carol > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

"C. and/or W. Scouler" <wcscouler@rcn.com> wrote: >I am a new user of Family Origins and I have a problem. Somewhere >along the way, I entered a child twice and he appears twice under the >parents. I tried to merge duplicates but the program does not >recognize them as duplicates. On the 'Select Person" list, he only >appears once. When doing a report, "Books", he appears twice. My >question is If I delete one will the other stay? No. They are both the same person (with the same record number) and deleting one will delete all instances of this person completely from the database. So don't do that! To remedy this situation, while the person is highlighted, in the edit menu, choose unlink from -> parents. This will unlink both instances of this person from the family, so you will then have to relink him back into the family (only once this time). You can use either the +p button with the child highlighted or the +c button with one of the parents highlighted to do that. Knowing the child's record number will help you find him again when you go to relink him back into the family. Having the program options set to display the record number of the highlighted person will help you see that both appearances in the same family are both actually the same person. Wayne League