I don't think I can drag & drop in version 7.0 but anyway I don't have duplicates in my list so I can't merge anyone. I have one situation where John's wife and children print out twice in the indivdidual summary and then when I print out his wife, HE and the children are listed twice. It almost seems as though I performed the marriage twice! F.O. will let me unlink the John and Mary marriage but I'm afraid I won't have a marriage left, will I? Do I have to delete them and start from scratch or is there a trick that I don't know about? Thanks, Lois >From: Wayne League <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [FO] how to undo? >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:22:25 -0400 > >"Lois Blackburn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For > >instance, under Marriages/Children I have the people listed once and then > >there is the number 2 and the whole thing is listed again. > >Here is how that situation could be created: >If John and Mary are married and have children Susan and James: > >If you drag & drop John and descendants to a new database and then you >d&d John and descendants again to the same database you will have all >four people duplicated in the new database. If you then merge the two >John duplicates but do not merge anyone else, John then will have two >wives and two families, one for each of the two Mary duplicates. And >each of the two Mary wives will have two children named Susan and >James. If you then do an individual summary of John, it will show the >2 Marriages/Children as you describe above. > >The solution is to merge the two Mary duplicates and then merge the >duplicates of the children also. > >Wayne League > > >==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== >Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ >Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
"Lois Blackburn" <[email protected]> wrote: >I don't think I can drag & drop in version 7.0 but anyway I don't have >duplicates in my list so I can't merge anyone. In FO7 you can do the same thing via gedcom export/import, but .... .... If you're sure you don't have any duplicates then it is possible that you have imported via a gedcom file from another genealogy program, the same situation we have been talking about in a different thread where the same two people are linked to two completely different families, both of which contain the very same people with the very same record numbers. You cannot create that condition from within FO ... you can only get it from importing from a gedcom made by a program that allows such a thing. Here is how you can tell if that condition exists: When in the family view, both father and mother will have an 'other spouses' button over their names. Set the program options to show the record numbers on the main screen and notice the record numbers of both spouses. Now click on the other spouses button and choose the other spouse from the list (you should see two spouses, both with the same name). If the other spouse has the same record number as the first spouse, for both partners, then they are indeed the very same persons and you have inherited two separate families for the very same two people. The only way you can remedy this situation is to unlink the spouses and relink them. Be sure to make a note of all the marriage and family events in case you lose them during the unlinking. You might have to reenter those events. Wayne League