I am a very new user of TMG v6.07.000 and by my own enthusiasm over knowledge I have left myself with quite a problem.
I, in retrospect, stupidly imported both a FTM v6 file and a GEDCOM file into TMG. This has resulted in numerous duplications of people and various tags. Where identical people were identifiable by having different ID#s, I have managed to merge them. What I now have left is a picklist of people, many of whom are duplicated, and can only be differentiated by the fact that one of the names is marked as primary. Strangely, the names in most cases are identical but there are variations in the case used (i.e. a mixture of upper and lower case names). I have contacted the Wholly Genes Technical Support site and have been guided towards John Cardinal's TMG Utility software. This does show promise in the fact that it will delete all non-primary tags but is potentially very dangerous.
What I want to know is, is it possible to run a report with a filter that will compare the various Name-var tags within the same record and then, using secondary output, write those records where the Name-var tags are ACTUALLY DIFFERENT rather than just written in upper-case rather than lower-case, for example, to a new Data Set? One could then run the TMG Utility and delete all non-primary Name-var tags then merge the original DataSet with the newly created Data Set to restore the records with genuine Name-var variants.
This technique could then be used to delete other identical tags which are differentiated only by the primary designation. This may seem very desperate and long winded but, if it can't be done, I am faced with deleting manually a very large number of tags.
I have attached screen shots showing the problems I have been describing.
Your advice will be gratefully received.
Tony
Name___ID__duplicates.doc
Duplicate_tags.doc
