Pardon my stupidity please but? Couldn't we just delete one marriage? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaylon Findlay" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Can I merge marriages? > 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. >