It isn't my place to contradict anything Ira says about CFTW. What I'm about to suggest may well turn into a mess but it did WORK for me. I created a GEDCOM file from a CFTW database, then used an editor to edit the GEDCOM using the windows <ctrl> F to find each occurrence of what I was looking for. When it was all cleaned up I imported the GEDCOM file again. So far as I can tell (touch wood) no loss of data. It would have been nice to just export those names that had the specified events but I didn't know how I would deal with the merge import. So the whole lot out and back in again after cleaning it up. Hope this help you -----Original Message----- From: Ira J. Lund <ira.lund@cf-software.com> To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com <CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, 17 March 1998 12:09 Subject: Re: editing the database of notes >Nope, sorry. No way to do that. Have to go to each individual one at a time. > >At 08:49 AM 3/14/98 +0100, you wrote: >>Ira >> >>When I started to register my family 1.5 years ago I started with notes >>written in danish. I have now learned that I have a lot of relatives abroad >>Denmark and whey are interessted in my notes and possibility to get a >>gedcom file from me - but they don't read danish. >> >>I am looking for a way to edit the "note-database" - directly - is that >>possible? >> >>You see I got 6.000 events and I have used notes quite a lot of times (the >>statistik says 297 with notes/ and 650 general notes) - and beeing a little >>lazy I wish to avoid entering each individual (I've got 2.100) checking for >>notes. >> >>regards >>Rolf >> >---------------------------------------------------------- > Ira J. Lund > Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA > Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals > E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com > http://www.cf-software.com >