RM 10 Drag'n'Drop drops IEDs into your database

[TomH]

@rzamor1 , Now finding examples of lineage corruption caused by drag’n’drop that is not ghost-like and is not cleaned up by Clean Phantom Records. Referring to the examples I posted in RM10 Issue with copying.

@TomH

DB1’s new 43880 was assigned new parents from DB1 instead of his parents from DB2. He shouldn’t have been assigned any parents because he is only a spouse of a descendant of Nancy Farr.

Not cleaned.

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@TomH

Here’s Minnie’s parents from the source database. Note that the Marriage event added to erroneous mother Wayne Lee MacMillan-24229 came from her real mother Florence Rich-24229 (same RIN).

Not cleaned.

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@TomH

Mary’s parental family to which her father’s family-type facts are tied is corrupted. He is now married to a RIN from the source database that does not exist in the target, 29531, because Candace Elizabeth Whitaker-29531 was not transferred.

Cleaned in the above case where drag’n’drop was into an empty database,
but
Not cleaned where DnD was into an existing database and there was an existing person with the same RIN as her mother, making her mother a male born after she was.

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@TomH

Julia-25 and her brother William-28 are recorded as children of non-person parents in the target database

Cleaned in that empty database target
but
Not in the intended target where she got new, impossible parents from the existing database who are her age-peers, and a whole new lineage.

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@TomH

William Hemp Farr-25219 to -73

This one definitely has incidence of pedigree collapse in it. Whether it is a triggering factor remains uncertain. William is the spouse of Nancy’s granddaughter Frankie Jane Anderson so he should be shown in a 3-gen Desc+spouse DnD. But his parental unit is also brought over, father David Jefferson Farr-25217 correctly identified and reassigned RIN=20 but his mother, Mary Jane Carpenter-25218, becomes a non-person identified by her original RIN=25218. Their Marriage and Marriage Licence events are also in David’s profile.

Cleaned in the empty database target. What the RM cleaner did was to replace the erroneous RIN for the non-person spouse with 0 and that results in the name “Unknown spouse” appearing where it normally would instead of blank. The couple events stay on the known spouse’s profile.

Not cleaned in the non-empty database target which already had a person with RIN=25218 so he got a new completely wrong ancestral lineage.

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I don’t know how one can find the uncleaned corruption. Problem alerts may find some but not all and is masked by many that already exist. If the bug originated with the first release, there are potentially many large databases that have been affected.