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.

David; do you mean locations? If so, there is a global change in "file" "locations". I use it often to clean up locations just as you describe. Fran The Future is as Great as the Promises of God On 28/02/2012 5:45 PM, David Youse wrote: > 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