If rewolf4's experience is anything like mine, I find that using the merge feature as a result of a leaf hint will frequently lead to two events that are exact duplicates of each other. I was also looking for a way to pinpoint the duplicate facts that needed to be merged together, so am happy to learn of Garnet's approach which may very well work for me -- though it may not help for duplicate name facts. When I merge duplicate facts, it's either the same source but different citations (primarily census records), or the fact merge ends up merging different sources for the same fact which are separate in the tree together into a single fact with multiple sources. I've started doing that from time to time after using the merge due to leaf hints that I find to be acceptable as being the same person after evaluating them. -- Mary On 4/8/2015 4:16 PM, H R Worthington via wrote: > rewolf4, > Are you saying that you only want ONE Dates of Birth? > I don't know about your research, but I rarely get the SAME Birth Fact Information from the different records I look at. > Do you Cite your sources? > Russ ___________________________ > > Mailto:rworthington@att.net > From: rewolf4 via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:33 PM > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Finding duplicate facts in database > > I am using FTM 2014 with 7500 persons in the database. I want to clean > up the database and have noticed that some persons have duplicate > entries for the same fact ie: two dates of birth, two 1920 Census facts, > two dates of death etc. I ran the Documented Facts report and it was > 1990 pages long. It showed the information I wanted but every time I > left the report to correct the error, FTM would take 10 minutes to > recreate the report even though I was working from a saved report. Is > there any way to create a report that shows only facts that are duplicated?

Mary, when you're going through the steps of a web merge, FTM gives you the option of deleting a fact (because you already have the exact same information) but keeping this new source. This will keep exact duplicates from happening, and will add the new source to the fact you already have. That's how to avoid most duplicates in the future. Judy in Ocala > On Apr 8, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Mary D. Taffet via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > If rewolf4's experience is anything like mine, I find that using the > merge feature as a result of a leaf hint will frequently lead to two > events that are exact duplicates of each other. I was also looking for > a way to pinpoint the duplicate facts that needed to be merged together, > so am happy to learn of Garnet's approach which may very well work for > me -- though it may not help for duplicate name facts. > > When I merge duplicate facts, it's either the same source but different > citations (primarily census records), or the fact merge ends up merging > different sources for the same fact which are separate in the tree > together into a single fact with multiple sources. I've started doing > that from time to time after using the merge due to leaf hints that I > find to be acceptable as being the same person after evaluating them. > > -- Mary > > > >> On 4/8/2015 4:16 PM, H R Worthington via wrote: >> rewolf4, >> Are you saying that you only want ONE Dates of Birth? >> I don't know about your research, but I rarely get the SAME Birth Fact Information from the different records I look at. >> Do you Cite your sources? >> Russ ___________________________ >> >> Mailto:rworthington@att.net >> From: rewolf4 via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> >> To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:33 PM >> Subject: [FTM-TECH] Finding duplicate facts in database >> >> I am using FTM 2014 with 7500 persons in the database. I want to clean >> up the database and have noticed that some persons have duplicate >> entries for the same fact ie: two dates of birth, two 1920 Census facts, >> two dates of death etc. I ran the Documented Facts report and it was >> 1990 pages long. It showed the information I wanted but every time I >> left the report to correct the error, FTM would take 10 minutes to >> recreate the report even though I was working from a saved report. Is >> there any way to create a report that shows only facts that are duplicated? > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > 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