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Multiple - Parents family - finding
Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:53
by dbidgood
In my 30,000 individuals I have a few who have acquired two sets of parents, one is correct, the other is 'Unknown'.
Has anyone devised a Query which will find individuals with more than one set of parents?
Suggestions welcome.
Don Bidgood.
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Multiple - Parents family - finding
Posted: 30 Jun 2010 14:02
by PeterR
An Individual Query with the following columns and rows filter should do the job:
Multiple - Parents family - finding
Posted: 07 Jul 2010 12:17
by dbidgood
Thanks Peter, I will try out your suggestion.
In case you or anyone else is curious as to how one can get multiple parents for an individual, one way is through 'Merge/Compare Records' or 'Merge/Compare File..'. If you merge two records for an individual one of which contains known parentage, while the other has parentage unknown, then the resultant merged record will show both.
This is especially likely to happen when merging two files which contain numerous records. It is all to easy to overlook the fact that one of the records has a parents unknown entry.
I think that the records showing parentage unknown probably originated in a program other than FH which does not seem to allow an entry of this type.
Don.