There is no way to do this except by person by person. Have been asking and is on the wish list for several years. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:32 AM, 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

Check the Problem list. Check for a people who have more than one of a fact. Betty -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of genbits@charter.net Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:22 AM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Duplicate facts detection and removal There is no way to do this except by person by person. Have been asking and is on the wish list for several years. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:32 AM, 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 =================================== 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