If I remove one - will the other and all of the associated information remain in place? Thanks.
Posted 28 September 2015 - 11:42 AM
If I remove one - will the other and all of the associated information remain in place? Thanks.
Posted 28 September 2015 - 05:59 PM
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--- "GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own." - Ambrose Bierce
--- "The trouble ain't what people don't know, it's what they know that ain't so." - Josh Billings
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K e V i N
Posted 28 September 2015 - 08:23 PM
Thank you so much for responding but I am getting a message that says, "The primary and the duplicate records cannot be the same record." They are the same and I am at fault because I added one daughter twice. I am afraid that if I delete the second entry it will delete all of the related information even though the same person remains listed as a child on a previous line. Should I worry?
Posted 29 September 2015 - 01:22 AM
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--- "GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own." - Ambrose Bierce
--- "The trouble ain't what people don't know, it's what they know that ain't so." - Josh Billings
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K e V i N
Posted 29 September 2015 - 08:40 AM
When you unlink the child from the parents it should remove both links at the same time. So you will need to use Add>Child>Select Existing Person to put them back.
Posted 29 September 2015 - 11:14 AM
When you unlink the child from the parents it should remove both links at the same time. So you will need to use Add>Child>Select Existing Person to put them back.
Several experiments seem to prove that Renee is correct. I would have sworn on a thousand bibles that unlinking would only undo one of the links and not both. I feel confident that I have done it that way before. Yet, Renee is demonstrably correct. Has the behavior changed, or (more likely) am I incorrect about how the behavior has always worked?
In any case, it seem to me to be much more useful to get rid of only one link at a time than to remove both links at the same time.
Jerry
Posted 29 September 2015 - 12:11 PM
Several experiments seem to prove that Renee is correct. I would have sworn on a thousand bibles that unlinking would only undo one of the links and not both. I feel confident that I have done it that way before. Yet, Renee is demonstrably correct. Has the behavior changed, or (more likely) am I incorrect about how the behavior has always worked?
In any case, it seem to me to be much more useful to get rid of only one link at a time than to remove both links at the same time.
Jerry
Jerry,
I'm going to join you at the "Cuckoo's Nest" as soon as I finish typing this note. I'm positive (I guess not) that I used the unlink feature less than 2 weeks ago and it only unlinked one of the links. "Strange Days." Have we just returned from a "Magical Mystery Tour" or have we gotten stuck in the "Twilight Zone?" Hm-m-m-m
TomD
It's been real... It's been fun...
Posted 29 September 2015 - 01:00 PM
This behavior has at least been around since RootsMagic 4.
Posted 29 September 2015 - 05:38 PM
This behavior has at least been around since RootsMagic 4.
Could it be changed to one link at a time? That would be much more useful.
Jerry
Posted 29 September 2015 - 07:26 PM
When you unlink the child from the parents it should remove both links at the same time. So you will need to use Add>Child>Select Existing Person to put them back.
Renee.....this is the way I have always done it to remove a double entry.