Duplicate Individuals and Families

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 22 Jun 2004 01:22

I can't see any easy way to identify possible duplicate individual records and duplicate family records, within FH, for the current file (I know about the file/branch/pair merging functions).

FTM used to prompt me if it adjudged that I might be entering a duplicate individual, and then give me the opportunity to merge (or not) the relevant records. It also had a 'possible duplicates' search function.

FH does not seem to have either feature, so spotting duplicates becomes a little hard when the number of records starts to climb.

How do people handle this, please?

ID:461

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 03 Jul 2004 11:20

No one have this problem to deal with from time to time, then? [confused]

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 06 Jul 2004 13:33

Its already on the wish list, search for duplicates.

Also in the Query store is a search for Query which searchs for people by name/married name.
http://www.familyhistorian.ip3.com/cgi- ... ries&id=28

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 08 Jul 2004 00:24

Thanks, must have missed it or mistyped my search, since a search on the wish-list for 'duplicates' is the second thing I did after searching the forum

Anyway, voted for it.

Not sure the query will be very helpful, since I don't know which potential duplicates I'm searching for. Also imagine you have 20 John Smiths in your file. It's got to be surname+firstname+something else, maybe birth year to identify candidates for duplicates, in any dup report. Or maybe it would be surname + any other 2 of firstname, birth date, spouse maiden surname, etc.

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