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JudyCosler
JudyCosler ✭
September 17, 2022 edited July 12, 2024 in Family Tree

how are they assigned? what do the codes mean?

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 17, 2022 edited September 17, 2022 Answer ✓

    They're randomly assigned and have no meaning except as the "address" for a particular profile. They're about as meaningful as the last four digits of your phone number.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 17, 2022 edited September 17, 2022 Answer ✓

    The dont mean anything - nor do they need to

    they are simply a unique identifier so that when you are discussing a specific person you can tell people EXACTLY which person you are referring to -- among the BILLIONS of people inside Family Tree

    otherwise for example - if you were discussing a John Smith - how in the world would you communicate to others WHICH of the millions of John Smiths in the database you were referring to???

    see this discussion:

    https://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/sharing_family_tree.htm

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 17, 2022

    The PIDs mean nothing. Which even less than the last 4 digits of many phone numbers.

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