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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] unlinked invididuals
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:20:56 -0800
In-Reply-To: <FFEBLNNBNENFDKOPJEBPAEJCEIAA.paulharris@nc.rr.com>


I have lots of unlinked individuals because I know due to the rarity of the
surname that they are all related, I just don't know how . . . yet. So I
assign them an RFN of (unconnected), and tick off the P and X boxes. I can
search for all of the unconnecteds if need be once I have found the
connections and wish to link or just review them.

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul J. Harris [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:57 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] unlinked invididuals


Mark,

Just to free up the imagination, there is another way to search for people
with more than one set of parent records. On the Individual View, click the
Filter Button to the right of the Header. At the bottom of the Filter Dialog
is a field labeled P-fams. This is the number of Parent Families for an
individual, at least that is what it appears to stand for. Enter '>1' in
this field (without quotes), click outside of the field, then click Update.
It may take a while, but you will get a list of everyone with more than one
set of parents. You can then Set Filter and select the Parents Tab of the
first individual for review. Then you can advance through the subset,
reviewing the Parents Tab for appropriateness on each one.

This is something I find myself doing as part of routine maintenance.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Klan [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 5:33 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] unlinked invididuals


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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