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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Copying a person
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:36:35 -0500


Lorna McIntosh wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how to get the picklist, and the subject's name line
>to show the correct birth date?
>
>I stumbled across the copy person feature as I was trying to cut down my
>entry time for a case where I had one name, one source (an email) and
>two ages and/or different supposed fathers depending on which of the
>writer's sources you believed.
>
>I unticked all but the individual events from the box and had my copied
>person with birth and source data.
>I then changed the birth date year and added the different father and
>thought "another job done".

Look at the Person View of the "new" person, and make the appropriate Tags
as Primary (highlight each tag in turn and click on the asterisk (*) icon).
When the person is copied, the Primary designation is removed and you must
decide which Tags are Primary.

>Later, looking in the picklist I was rather suprised to see two
>identical people, with the same birth date.
>The birth event shows the different dates but the picklist, even when
>refreshed, shows the original copied dates, not the revised ones.

If you still have two identical people (with the same ID#) in the Picklist,
it is probably a result of a merge or duplicate tags for that person. Just
display the Person View of the affected person and review its tags. If
there are duplicate tags, you need to look at each one and determine if you
need to retain some of the data from one in the other tag before deleting
the redundant one.

Hope this helps -


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