User Question: Multiple / Duplicate Birth, Marriage,
Death Facts
A question from a Blog Reader:
Thank you for your Knowledge Base series. They are
a great resource.
Sometimes one or more B/M/D facts have two
dates and, no matter how hard
you research the problem, you just can not figure
out which is correct.
I had the problem with a birth date and kept the
two Birth fact entries.
FTM's error checking routines did not like this and
kept flagging the
two Birth entries as an error.
So, what to do? It finally hit me, the solution to
duplicate facts is to
eliminate the duplication. I kept the original Birth
fact and added a
second "Birth - ALT" fact to hold the alternate fact.
The same could be
done by creating "Death - ALT" and "Marriage - ALT"
facts.
If I ever manage to resolve the conflict, all I have to
do is put the
correct date and citation(s) in "Birth" and delete
"Birth - ALT."
If needed you can create a custom Report to keep
track of these
additional facts by filtering in "xxx - ALT" as "Is Not
Blank."
Thought this might give you an idea for one of your
video demos.
First, I am sure I have done more than one video on
this topic and a number of written blog posts as
well.

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