I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is there a way to merge the marriage records? (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses seems to result in duplicate children which then also need merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? Cheryl -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.

Cheryl: Let's say that you have "Bob Jones" married to "Sally Rogers". And you have two copies each of Bob and Sally. Bob (RIN 1) is married to Sally (RIN 2), and the marriage is MRIN 3. The second Bob (RIN 4) is married to the second Sally (RIN 5) in marriage MRIN 6. Once you merge the two copies of Bob (RINs 1 and 4), you will still have two marriages (MRINs 3 and 6). There will only be one copy of Bob, and that is RIN 1. So now you have: Bob (RIN 1) is married to Sally (RIN 2), and the marriage is MRIN 3. Bob (RIN 1 -- remember, he's been merged, and there is no longer a RIN 4) is married to the second Sally (RIN 5) in marriage MRIN 6. Now, when you merge the two copies of Sally (RINs 2 and 5), you will end up with only one copy of Sally, and that will be RIN 2. At this point in the merge process, PAF should be smart enough to recognize that since MRIN 3 and MRIN 6 both have the same two partners, it will automatically merge the two marriages. So you will end up only with marriage MRIN 3. MRIN 6 will be gone. In summary, any time you have two copies of the same marriage, once you merge the two partners, the extra marriage will be merged. Concentrate on merging the individuals, and the marriages should take care of themselves. Gaylon PS. If the original RIN 1=RIN 2 couple had children, and the original RIN 4=RIN 5 couple had a duplicate set of children, then you will eventually have to merge the children. singhals wrote: > I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no > question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. > > Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in > numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is > there a way to merge the marriage records? > > (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db > floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses > seems to result in duplicate children which then also need > merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) > > If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? > > Cheryl > >

Despite a seeming lifetime of use of PAF - merging in basic PAF fills me with dread and I have rarely got it right - and never really know why I got it right or more often when - and I have - had similar results to you with merged marriages. I now do any PAF merging in PAFInsight - which gets it right every time. Remember - essentially you are merging individuals (not marriages) - if the merged individuals have been married to different people - you will get correctly, multiple marriages - however, if the merged individuals have from their respective different databases been married to the same individual - the result will be multiple marriages to the same individual & corresponding multiple children. In such cases care must be taken to ensure that the two merged records are not married to the same spouse. The above paragraph may take some unravelling - but use PAFInsight - it's easier. Regards, Stewart -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of singhals Sent: 07 December 2007 02:11 To: [email protected] Subject: [PAF-5] Can I merge marriages? I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is there a way to merge the marriage records? (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses seems to result in duplicate children which then also need merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? Cheryl -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Cheryl, Merging the duplicate parents will not create duplicate children. They must already be in the database. You may have accidentally imported a gedcom that contained people who were already in your database. If the duplicates originated from the same database at some point, PAF does have the ability to do automatic merges based on unique identification numbers and Ancestral File Numbers. It is certainly worth a try. Tools menu | Match/Merge Backup your file, using a new and descriptive name. Match Primarily on | Unique record identification numbers Merge | Automatically merge duplicates OK Find | OK Next Match ... It should take only a few minutes. Then try the same process, but select Match Primarily on | Ancestral File Numbers When it works, it is like magic. If it messes up, you can restore your backup, and say "That was 10 minutes wasted!" If the duplicates did not originate from the same database, PAF Insight may be your best bet. Of course, if there has been no connection made between the original people and the duplicates, you can select one person and All Related and export them to a new file. But it appears that you have started merging them. Let us know how things go. Biull Buchanan ----- Original Message ----- From: "singhals" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:10 PM Subject: [PAF-5] Can I merge marriages? > I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no > question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. > > Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in > numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is > there a way to merge the marriage records? > > (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db > floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses > seems to result in duplicate children which then also need > merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) > > If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? > > Cheryl > > -- > There should be no attachments on this message, unless I > specifically mentioned them above. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1176 - Release Date: 12/6/2007 11:15 PM > >

Goodness! I am supposed to be an "English teacher" .. what does "my bad" .. mean? What is the subject? Where did this strange phrase originate? Please, can someone help me? I do not live in the U.S. On Dec 7, 2007 3:10 AM, singhals <[email protected]> wrote: > I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no > question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. > > Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in > numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is > there a way to merge the marriage records? > > (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db > floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses > seems to result in duplicate children which then also need > merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) > > If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? > > Cheryl > > -- > There should be no attachments on this message, unless I > specifically mentioned them above. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Horrible expression, isn't it? From the same school as "terror threat"? Try - mistake, error, fault etc Only good thing to be said about "my bad" is that it seems to be spelt consistently and correctly, at least in the ever increasing numbers of emails where I have seen the expression used. <g> Another non-US resident - who finds it ironic that on one hand more and more "short" expressions are being used in writing, while orally people like to add numbers of "-tionisationed" and similar suffixes to all sorts of perfectly adequate words. On 07/12/2007, Alan Whitcomb <[email protected]> wrote: > Goodness! I am supposed to be an "English teacher" .. what does "my bad" .. > mean? What is the subject? Where did this strange phrase originate? > Please, can someone help me? I do not live in the U.S. > > > On Dec 7, 2007 3:10 AM, singhals <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no > > question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/my-bad.html : Shakespeare used the term with something like the current meaning, in his Sonnet 112. Cheryl Alan Whitcomb wrote: > Goodness! I am supposed to be an "English teacher" .. what does "my > bad" .. mean? What is the subject? Where did this strange phrase > originate? Please, can someone help me? I do not live in the U.S . > > > > On Dec 7, 2007 3:10 AM, singhals <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I know exactly what I did, why, and how. My bad, no > question about it. I even know the hard way to fix it. > > Question *IS*, is there an easy way? What I did resulted in > numerous people being married twice to the same person. Is > there a way to merge the marriage records? > > (If I just unlink one of 'em, they're still in the db > floating around in the alpha reports. Merging the spouses > seems to result in duplicate children which then also need > merging creating duplicate grandchildren etc etc.) > > If PAF won't merge marriages, will Legacy? > > Cheryl > > -- > There should be no attachments on this message, unless I > specifically mentioned them above. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > > -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.