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From: "Mark Klan" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] unlinked invididuals
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:33:29 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <FFEBLNNBNENFDKOPJEBPOEJAEIAA.paulharris@nc.rr.com>


Thank you for figuring it out. I had looked at all the tabs on the Search,
but hadn't thought to approach it the way you suggested.

It turns out that I didn't have any completed stranded individuals, but I
then used your method to look for multiple mothers/fathers where there
shouldn't be any. I turned up a couple of instances where a child (say
Jane) is linked to two sets of biological parents: John & Mary, John &
Unknown Mother. The John & Unknown Mother links were artifacts of my early
failed attempts to add parents after the child was already in the database,
and I have now deleted the superfluous ones. Thanks again.

Mark

Paul J. Harris wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Glad you asked these questions.
>
> "Check Links" is a routine that primarily verifies the integrity of existing
> record links in the database, and is not what you need to find you isolated
> individuals.
>
> Your second question caused me to experiment, and I found some surprising
> results. Try this:
>
> Menu: Tools>Search, then click 'Clear All' Button on the bottom of the
> window. On the Identifiers Tab, to the right of the Father, Mother, Spouse,
> and Child fields are a set of fields labeled 'Total #:' Enter 0 (zero) in
> all four of these, then click Search. Your Query Results will contain any
> individual's who have no parents, no spouses, and no children.
>
> I saw what I expected to see, witnesses to events, who are not knowingly
> related to others in the database. However, I also saw some people who were
> witnesses prior to the data being imported over through Gedcom that I had
> missed in my cleanup. Glad to have found them.
>
> Thanks, Mark,
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Klan [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:58 PM
> To:
> Subject: [GENBOX] unlinked invididuals
>
>
> Does "Check Links" locate and report individuals who are unlinked to others
> in a database, or is this more of a check for inconsistent links?
>
> Alternatively, is there a way to search for individuals in a database who
> are "stranded", i.e, not linked to any others? My guess is that I've
> accumlated a few of these along the way :-).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark
> http://www.markklan.com (Acoustic Music Webtools)
>
>
>
>
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