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From: "Stewart Millar" <>
Subject: RE: [PAF-5] How to delete a marriage and a space?
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:40:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <426BDC0D.60600@erols.com>


Cheryl,

I find it incredible that you can get into a marriage edit window and have
the Delete option greyed out. This should not happen and it is difficult to
come up with a scenario that would create it.

Are you on the 5.2.18?

The marriage edit screen can also be reached from the menu options - Search
> Marriage List - then highlighting the particular marriage (MRIN) and
pressing the Edit button - it should give exactly the same options as before
- but it should be tried to be absolutely sure.

If you are on 5.2.18 and the marriage has a MRIN - whether or not one of the
spouses is Unknown - and PAF is preventing the use of the Delete button -
then you have a major and uncommon bug.

Do keep us posted as to progress.

Regards,

Stewart



-----Original Message-----
From: singhals [mailto:]
Sent: 24 April 2005 18:49
To:
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] How to delete a marriage and a space?

Since I'm a lazy soul, I'll reply to Richard publically, since lots of
you have suggested the same procedure for deleting the marriage ...
unfortunately the "delete marriage" choice is greyed out when I try it,
so that doesn't work.

Ah-HA a non-printing chr$ ... OK, I didn't think of that. And
GEDCOMming one person might be doable, but be darn if I'm even gonna
think about gecomming the whole file of 35,000+ names and notes. It was
sad enough at 20,000 names...

I'll letchano if any of this works.

Thanks

Cheryl

Richard Rands wrote:

> Hi Cheryl,
> Deleting an unwanted marriage record is hard to locate unless you know
> where to look. Put the husband in the principal position and click on
> the Other Marriages button. Select the Unknown spouse and click OK.
> Then double click on the Marriage date box between the husband and wife
> boxes. On the right side of the Edit Marriage window will be a Delete
> button.
>
> For the " Thomas" problem, PAF will automatically remove leading blanks,
> so what you seem to have before the T is a non-printing character
> embedded in the given name field. Many times this may happen if you
> inadvertently double strike two keys simultaneously. Usually you can
> eliminate the seemingly blank character by opening the Edit Individual
> screen and deleting the entire given name and re-entering the name. If
> that does not work, try deleting the entire name and re-entering it. If
> that does not work, then you may need to delete the record and reenter
> it. If there are lots of notes and sources attached to the record, I
> suggest you export the single record as a GEDCOM file and then delete
> the record. Use a text editor (Wordpad) and make sure the non-printing
> character did not get into the GEDCOM file. Then re-import the record
> and link it back up to the family. If that doesn't work, send your file
> to me and I'll fix it.
>
> Richard Rands
>
>
>
> At 07:21 PM 4/23/2005 -0400, singhals wrote:
>
>> I accidentally entered an "unknown" spouse with no children, and
>> entered the lady who shudda been the spouse as a child. I've managed
>> to unlink her as a child. What I *intended* to happen was insert her
>> in the "unknown" slot, but something somewhere went wrong, and she's
>> now the 3rd spouse, and I can't delete the Unknown marriage. I
>> wouldn't actually care, except it's stupid to let it sit there and
>> trip me up at some future time after I've forgotten it's a mistake.
>> Suggestions welcomed on how to get rid of it.
>>
>> Also, on another family, the 5th child is showing as " Thomas" instead
>> of "Thomas" ... I haven't been able to fix that either, but I've sure
>> as heck tried! (g) Might help if I could figure out what caused it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cheryl


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