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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG for Dummies + Merge
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:22:52 -0500
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Yes, I never did figure how to search for parents that were non-primary
which happened during a merge.
I like to do the picklist process since I can immediately go in and take
care of all the duplicates that I want to keep, make sure birth, death,
marriage and parents are primary.
Bonita
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Mellen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG for Dummies + Merge
> Linda Lawhon wrote:
> >Bonita said:
> >I am in the process of merging. Sigh. Another voice of experience will
> >say that there all kinds of nuances to merging. Before you delete any
tag
> >in the merge screen, better give it a very long consideration. :-) So --
> >like Bonita, most times I just merge both screens and go to the next hit
> >on the list. Now -- wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to print out
> >a list of all those people you have merged???? Yep, 20/20 hindsight
tells
> >me I shoulda made a handwritten list but that is what computers are
for --
> >I think. If this list is possible, could someone tell me how to do
> >it. Now I have umpty ump people that I have merged -- a good many of
them
> >now sitting there with duplicate tags. I can see that my faded, torn,
and
> >tattered edit flag is going to be once more set to *no* and once more I
> >will be going through the pick list one by one. I sure do hope the merge
> >thing gets better someday.
>
> If, as you say, you just merged both screens, then you have duplicates of
> all tags -- in general, one primary and one non-primary.
> Stepping through the picklist, as you mentioned, is one way to find the
> duplicate name tags.
> A List of Names with the focus
> Primary Marker is off AND
> Tag type label is Name-Var
> will narrow down the list. Of course it will also pick up people who
> legitimately have two name tags.
>
> The List of Events came be used to search on the other tags for
non-primary
> events -- again not a perfect solution.
>
> Allen
>
> Allen Mellen -- New York, NY
> http://www.geocities.com/allenmellen
> http://www.geocities.com/allenmellen/tmg.html
>
>
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