If you ever want to create a custom report showing, for example, all the people who are buried in Oswego, New York, you will not get an accurate report if you have more than one entry for that place. This is generally the rationale for maintaining a clean database of any kind. It's extremely useful for analyzing your data. Judy in Ocala. On Dec 4, 2011, at 3:03 PM, "John Boyd" <johnhboyd@earthlink.net> wrote: > I have seen a few duplicates listed separately in the Places list, but > haven't spent any time worrying about it. Frankly, I can't figure out that > it makes any difference any place. > > John & Kathleen > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Caroline Gurney > Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 1:29 PM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Several problems with Places in FTM 2010, 2011 and > 2012 > > I've just spent two hours working through my list of Places. It's been a > while since I last did it. I have just over 2000 individual place names and > I found that 85 duplicates had been created. I do wish Ancestry would fix > this problem. > > Caroline Gurney > www.carosfamily.com > www.cmgurney.blogspot.com > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
It shouldn't make any difference in the report if all of the Places are Oswego, New York John & Kathleen -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Judy in Ocala Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 6:48 PM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Several problems with Places in FTM 2010, 2011 and 2012 If you ever want to create a custom report showing, for example, all the people who are buried in Oswego, New York, you will not get an accurate report if you have more than one entry for that place. This is generally the rationale for maintaining a clean database of any kind. It's extremely useful for analyzing your data. Judy in Ocala. On Dec 4, 2011, at 3:03 PM, "John Boyd" <johnhboyd@earthlink.net> wrote: > I have seen a few duplicates listed separately in the Places list, but > haven't spent any time worrying about it. Frankly, I can't figure out > that it makes any difference any place. > > John & Kathleen > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Caroline Gurney > Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 1:29 PM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Several problems with Places in FTM 2010, 2011 > and > 2012 > > I've just spent two hours working through my list of Places. It's been > a while since I last did it. I have just over 2000 individual place > names and I found that 85 duplicates had been created. I do wish > Ancestry would fix this problem. > > Caroline Gurney > www.carosfamily.com > www.cmgurney.blogspot.com > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Online Support for Family Tree Maker Version 16 and earlier http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ Version 2008 - 2011 http://ftm.custhelp.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message