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