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Meaning of (M6F9-6C2)

Jonathan_Raines
Jonathan_Raines
February 7, 2021 edited August 13, 2021 in Family Tree

Hello I have been researching my wife side of her family her grandmother name is Claire Cole When I search for her is shows Clair Coles (M6F9-6C2), Can some tell me what M6F9-6C2 means?

 

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  • JeffWiseman
    JeffWiseman ✭✭✭
    February 7, 2021

    That is the Person Identification number (or "PID") for that record in the database and can be very useful in a number of ways. Sometimes when trying to find a particular record in the database in a hurry, if you have the PID number it can be very fast. The PID is unique in the database and lives forever. Even if a record is "deleted" or merged away, it can always be restored. Once a PID number is assigned to a record it will NEVER be used again on anything else.

     

    If there were 15 "Claire Cole"s in the database, yours is uniquely identified as M6F9-6C2. By having this unique identifier assigned to each record in the database, you can track exactly what is happening to a specific record--especially since there are many records in the database that look like the same person but are NOT.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 7, 2021

    see:

    https://community.familysearch.org/s/feed/0D53A00004qZopWSAS

     

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