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║ AUTOID ║
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║ PAF Review - Version 93.1 - 1 March 1993 ║
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║ Compiled by Mike St. Clair ║
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║ This is file AUTOID.INF ║
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Version: 1.0
Author: David H. Birley
Address: MCC Micro, P.O. Box 1066, Tulsa, OK 74101-1066
Release Date: August 1992
BBS File Name: AUTOID10.ZIP
Software Type: Freeware
Fee: N/A
Read/Write: Read/Write
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║ Brief Description ║
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AUTOID assigns unique IDs to records in your PAF database. This
can help with merging when several people in different locations
are working on the same families.
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║ Long Description ║
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Frequently data imported via GEDCOM files includes records that
match data you already have. These matching records may be merged
with the Match/Merge capability of PAF. There is a problem,
however, when there are several records that appear very similar
in the imported file, but by research you have narrowed it down to
a single record. If you ask PAF to "Find the next match", and you
are going through 150 John Smiths, it can take a long time. The
ID number is the ideal way to specify a particular record.
PAF provides a way to assign Ahnentafel numbers as IDs to all
records in a database, but each database will have the same set of
numbers assigned to different records. George Smith may be ID.123
in the Smith database, and Fred Brown ID.123 in the Brown
database. AUTOID will assign unique IDs to all data and eliminate
worry about duplication between databases.
The ANANAN system, used for Canadian Postal Codes, is used for the
IDs assigned by AUTOID. ANANAN codes consist of alternating alpha
and numeric characters. In AUTOID the user supplies the first two
characters, and the computer supplies the remaining 4. This
enables the user to have up to 260 sets of over 65,000 codes
each. ANANAN has an additional advantage in that it is very easy
to verify what character is in what place. "I" and "1", "O" and
"0", and sometimes even "H" and "4" can get confused. Because
only the first, third, and fifth characters are letters, and only
the other three are numbers, you can determine which a particular
character is by its placement.