To Rennie Brown Here is how to find the people that "new lo" is attached to. Go to the main BK screen and pick File, Locations, Change locations globally On the top line type: new lo On the bottom line type: new loxx Click the Start button. That will change that location name to: new loxx After you do that, go to the main screen and pick Lists, Word Search, click the Any field tab, and type: new loxx Then click Make List to Edit. That will show you everyone with that location. After you know what that location should be, go to the main BK screen and pick File, Locations, Change locations globally. On the top line type: new loxx and on the bottom line type the location you want it to be. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "R L Brown" <wiseguy_wv@yahoo.com> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: [BK] Locations by Person There is a convenient BK feature that can identify all the persons to whom a particular source is attached. Is there a way to do the same thing with locations? I routinely take the shortcut of entering just the first few letters of a location, pressing F8, then selecting the desired existing location. But I've found long after the fact that there are several locations that I inadvertently created by accepting only the partial location name. For example, "new lo" rather that "New London, Chester Co, PA" or "New London, Huron Co, OH" or "New London County, CT." If I knew who the "new lo" is attached to, I could do a global search & replace. But since I don't know that, I wouldn't know which location to change it to. I could do a word search for "new lo" but that will also return all the more complete locations, and I can't narrow it down by event since I don't know that either. All I know is that I have a handful of partial location names somewhere in my large database that I'd like to correct. Any suggestions? Rennie Brown West Union, WV ======================= We're all in this together www.doddridgecountyroots.com Remember me in the family tree, My name, my days, my strife; Then I'll ride upon the wings of time And live an endless life. --------------------------------------- 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

Thank you, John...  That did the trick.  By changing the partial location name to something unique, I was able to use Word Search to quickly identify the one person in my database that it was attached to.  I'm just mad that I didn't think of that approach myself!!  :-)   Rennie Brown West Union, WV From: John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> To: bk@rootsweb.com Cc: wiseguy_wv@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [BK] Locations by Person To Rennie Brown Here is how to find the people that "new lo" is attached to. Go to the main BK screen and pick File, Locations, Change locations globally On the top line type:  new lo On the bottom line type:  new loxx Click the Start button. That will change that location name to:  new loxx After you do that, go to the main screen and pick Lists, Word Search, click the Any field tab, and type:  new loxx Then click Make List to Edit. That will show you everyone with that location. After you know what that location should be, go to the main BK screen and pick File, Locations, Change locations globally.  On the top line type:  new loxx and on the bottom line type the location you want it to be. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "R L Brown" <wiseguy_wv@yahoo.com> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: [BK] Locations by Person There is a convenient BK feature that can identify all the persons to whom a particular source is attached. Is there a way to do the same thing with locations? I routinely take the shortcut of entering just the first few letters of a location, pressing F8, then selecting the desired existing location. But I've found long after the fact that there are several locations that I inadvertently created by accepting only the partial location name. For example, "new lo" rather that "New London, Chester Co, PA" or "New London, Huron Co, OH" or "New London County, CT." If I knew who the "new lo" is attached to, I could do a global search & replace. But since I don't know that, I wouldn't know which location to change it to. I could do a word search for "new lo" but that will also return all the more complete locations, and I can't narrow it down by event since I don't know that either. All I know is that I have a handful of partial location names somewhere in my large database that I'd like to correct. Any suggestions? Rennie Brown West Union, WV ======================= We're all in this together www.doddridgecountyroots.com Remember me in the family tree, My name, my days, my strife; Then I'll ride upon the wings of time And live an endless life. --------------------------------------- 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