I also ran in the the entry problem - if you put the cursor directly into the field you want to enter - it seems to lock up. Try starting the cursor in a previous field and tab to the field you want to enter - it should open up the field to enter data. Cheryl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CG, CGL" <liz@ancestordetective.com> To: <Clooz-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [Clooz] Too Many People > At 09:27 AM 6/30/2006, Mwilson wrote: >>I, too, learned a lot from the podcasts. Feel really stupid about two >>things (and I've looked for it in the manual but can't find it): >> >>1. Wanted to add a marriage date to one of my "people" and it won't let >>me... > > Why won't it let you? You click on People on the Explorer Bar, find the > person and double click on that person's name. Then type in the marriage > date. It's straightforward and nearly the same method as in 1.23. There > are instructions in the manual and in online help. You can search Help for > the word "edit" and you'll find that it appears on the page "Adding New > People Manually." Item 5 in the list tells you how to edit an entry. > >>2. When I first started using Clooz (way back) I was able to import all >>my people. Now I find that extremely cumbersome as I'm sure some of the >>people I will NEVER have documents or records for. So, is there any way >>to get rid of them (hundreds) without manually deleting each one? I just >>really want to work with mostly my direct lines without all the >>generations of collateral people. Maybe I should just start over & import >>a gedcom of the folks I want, start a new database and then add the others >>manually as I find info about them? If I do that, what happens to all the >>material I've already entered in this database?? Is there some way to get >>it into the new database?? > > There's no easy way to cull your list of people, sorry. I'm not sure that > we can make that any easier anyway. It's a database and you need to select > each entry that you want to delete. > There's also no easy way to get stuff into a new database. There are > linkages that would need to be reestablished between people and documents. > It would be better to manually delete the people you don't want in there. > Or, just ignore them. You may find records on them some day. > > Liz > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >