File Location Change Location globally Type in the first few letters of the location you want to change, then key F8 and select which you want to change. You can enter similar entries to change on separate lines. Then in the box at the bottom type in what you want the location/s changed to. Keith Wellington, NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Youse" <dhyouse@comcast.net> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:45 AM Subject: [BK] suggestions > I’m up to about 8000 names in my database now and find that I need to > clean up many of the past entries. > > Specifically I’d like to be able to go through the Descriptions to > consolidate duplicates, e.g., change [Reading, PA] to [Reading, Berks Co, > PA], and to correct misspellings that make two descriptions where one > would be correct, e.g., [...Pittsburg...] and [...Pittsburgh...]. Is > there a way to do this without finding each of the records individually > and changing them one at a time? Also, I’d like to see a utility that > would find each record with an Event that doesn’t have any date, > location/description, note, source or witness attached, and delete that > event. > > A small note of something that doesn’t affect me in any but isn’t quite > right, on the left side of the Edit page, where the radio buttons for > Male, Female and Unknown are aligned vertically, the center button (for > Female) is slightly cut off at the top, along with the tops of the letters > in “Female”. The tops of the “F” and “l” are cut off in line with the > tops of the “e, m, a and e”. The button works as expected. I’m using > version 6.5.5 and Windows 7, 64-bit. > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message