* My Id's are changed!

[dbidgood]

I use Family Historian IDs extensively for my OneNameStudy as a quick and unique reference to an individual. I have just discovered that in about May 2012 all the old IDs changed to new ones. There appears to be no other change in the records apart from the ID.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so what is the cause?

While not a calamity it is a little annoying not to be able to use the original ID when referring back to annotated paper copies of the original sources.

[tatewise]

As far as I am aware there are only a few ways that Record Id will get adjusted and all require your action.

1. You used Tools > Work with Record Identifiers and renumbered the records.
2. You used File > Merge to import a GEDCOM that necessitated auto-renumbering.
3. The GEDCOM file was somehow text edited (very unlikely).

As a matter of interest, why has it taken over 3 years to discover the change, if you use the Rec Id so extensively?

[LornaCraig]

I believe that in Mike's case no. 2 the GEDCOM into which the merge takes place retains its ID numbers. The second GEDCOM which is being merged into the first is the one whose IDs are renumbered, but that would normally be the smaller of the two.

[dbidgood]

Hi Mike and Lorna,
I think that the suggestion of the effect of a merge is the most likely.

I was vaguely aware of the problem a year or two back, but since then I was mainly working with new data I had little incentive to dig further until now. Shall we say that my curiosity overcame my inertia!

Thank you both,

Don in Canada.