There is a way to find people with duplicate facts, but only one fact at a time. Reports Lists Fact list -- People with more than one of this fact type -- fact type Generate the report and save it asa text file and open it in NotePad or something so you can sue it to find and edit the listed people. One fact at a time is slow, but you can usually edit several duplicate facts for each person when it finds the first one so that each new duplicate fact listing is usually shorter than the last. Alfred ========== Stan Armstrong wrote: > I have an indeterminate number of records that have duplicate facts for > a person. For example, there may be two or more identical birth or death > or residence facts. I would like to be able to find all of these in my > database. It would be good if I could also remove them > (semi)automatically, but I would settle for finding them all and > removing them manually. > > I suspect that these duplicate facts were the result of my trying to use > Family Tree Maker to quickly gather data concerning the family of a > particular person into a small, temporary person tree. I would export > that data to a GEDCOM. Then I would import it into a new RM tree. Then I > would drag and drop it onto my main RM tree. When I performed a cleanup > merge, RM would not merge many of the facts because the imported > versions contained the usual, useless, generic ancestry.com family tree > source reference. Well, that is water under the bridge. I'll try to > avoid that duplication in the future. For now, I would just like to > clean up my RM database. >

Thanks, Alfred. That not only works, it reveals problems that might otherwise be missed. For instance, I found two cases of multiple births and deaths for the same person. Since they were born and died in successive years, I may be looking at infant deaths, with the next child being given the same name. Alfred wrote: > There is a way to find people with duplicate facts, but only one fact at > a time. > > Reports > Lists > Fact list > -- People with more than one of this fact type > -- fact type > Generate the report and save it asa text file and open it in NotePad or > something so you can sue it to find and edit the listed people. > > One fact at a time is slow, but you can usually edit several duplicate > facts for each person when it finds the first one so that each new > duplicate fact listing is usually shorter than the last. > > Alfred > ========== > > Stan Armstrong wrote: > >> I have an indeterminate number of records that have duplicate facts for >> a person. For example, there may be two or more identical birth or death >> or residence facts. I would like to be able to find all of these in my >> database. It would be good if I could also remove them >> (semi)automatically, but I would settle for finding them all and >> removing them manually. >> >> I suspect that these duplicate facts were the result of my trying to use >> Family Tree Maker to quickly gather data concerning the family of a >> particular person into a small, temporary person tree. I would export >> that data to a GEDCOM. Then I would import it into a new RM tree. Then I >> would drag and drop it onto my main RM tree. When I performed a cleanup >> merge, RM would not merge many of the facts because the imported >> versions contained the usual, useless, generic ancestry.com family tree >> source reference. Well, that is water under the bridge. I'll try to >> avoid that duplication in the future. For now, I would just like to >> clean up my RM database. >> >> > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >