Double parents after import via FSID

I have I haver importes the ancestors of P6Y1-S8M into an fresh and empty database

Around 3500 people were read in.

Fatally, 370 people have double parents.

The parents are identical in both FSIDs. On FS, only one parent couple bid

Does it seem to be a mistake by RM11?

I know that under Couples, I can manually unleft the double marriages.

With 1090 sitations, I’m busy for days.

How can I eliminate the problem?

BG

It may be helpful to post example FSID’s for people that have double-parents, to avoid helpers having to navigate backwards through ancestors. Just a thought.

Just a note that this might only be 70 families… where every child of large families has doubled parents.

If you are comfortable in running a SQLite query, I can give you one to do it. It’s so trivial that it should be a simple feature to incorporate in the RM app. But that’s an enhancement request you could wait a long time for it to be fulfilled.

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hallo Tom sehr gerne

I’ve posted two queries to the following page. one to identify the children and their duplicated parents, the second to delete the duplicate child-parent links. I hope that addresses your problem and that there are no other issues that have arisen in your FamilySearch imports.

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das Schlimme ist ja dass in FS keine doppelten Eltern vorhanden sind; sie tauchen nur in RM11 auf. Ich habe dort eine Gruppen-Regel “doppelte Eltern” Siehe meinScreenshot

Duplicate posts on this. I mentioned on the other one to turn on RINs instead of the FSID. Then you can determine if you have duplicate people or duplicate links.

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danke

wo soll ich die RINS aktivieren?

ich habe aber offensichtlich 1070 doppelte links

Wie kann das überhaupt passieren?

Ein Fehler in RM11 !!!

danke Tom

das werde ich machen

besser wäre es, wenn dieser Fehler in RM gar nicht auftreten würde :wink:

Renee makes a good point. The RootsMagic RIN is guaranteed to be unique but it’s possible the FamilySearchID might get duplicated. To turn on the RIN to display with the name:

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ok nun sehe ich statt der FSDI die RIN, die jeweils identisch ist

übringens auch die Spouses sind doppelt bei identischen RIN / FSDI

sehr ärgerlich, dass RM dies nicht korrekt importieren kann :frowning:

This is hilarious. I just came across this exact issue in my file a couple hours ago, where a set of parents had double relationships between them and their children, and a couple of the children’s family’s had it as well. Yes, they were the same RM people with the same RIN and FSID. My gut tells me it was from a previous FS import just looking at the state of the people, but I couldn’t give you an exact before/after of how or when I did that.

What I have noticed is that if an FS import process runs into someone that’s already imported into RM, there seem to be 4 different possibilities of what happens:

  • It stops
  • It imports the new person but does not create a relationship with the existing RM person (and continues or stops)
  • It imports the new person and creates the new relationship
  • It imports the new person, creates the new relationship, and then walks down that new tree creating relationships too.

Is this a new behavior? I’ve only been using RM for about 6 months but up until recently, I noticed that it seemed to always stop if it found a person that’s already imported. It’s nice when it creates the new relationship for me, not so much if it keeps going :wink:

Actually, since BOTH her Parents and Spouses are DOUBLE, my first guess is the possibility of two separate FS downloads of portions of this person’s trees.

I agree. @thburkhart click on the heading of the FSID column of the People list and look for duplicates. If there are, they most certainly have unique RINs and have been doubly imported. That means my SQL query will not fix that issue.

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