I suppose 20 people will answer this question, but just in case everyone is out soaking up sun, what I do is go to Lists>Place. Highlight the "place" you want to change, press edit (at the top of that place window.) You can choose whether to print the citations for that place or the entire list. I just jot down the record number and fix the place, then delete. I usually put the notes that appear in the place list into a note. I think some weird things get into the place list when a GEDCOM transfers from one program to another, some of the things I have seen could not possibly have been typed there by any sane genealogist.

Or go to the entry that you want to find out and print that highlighted one. It will print those entries with that particular place. Be sure that the button next to the Highlighted entry is checked and you can do one at a time. It may take a while, but I found that its easier than printing the entire list and then trying to follow the non-place entries. Note the record number and its very easy to locate the one that you want to fix. Keith Thompson Don/Gen wrote: > > Sandra, > > Go to Reports/Lists/PlaceList click on Print choose Screen which you can > then review on your monitor. You could print out a hard copy but way to > many pages, I have a small database, under 1900 people, and I run 41 pages. > > Donovan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:34 AM > Subject: [FO] Place list > > > Well I am still at it ( unifying my places list on my files) But, I have a > > lot of NON-PLACE listings in it that came from various imports and I do > not > > want to lose them, but I do not know how to identify who each one belongs > to > > (such as Went to college in Sacramento in 1960) > > any suggestions? Please! > > > > SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN > > Sacramento,CA > > http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ > > http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm > > all my mail scanned by Norton > > Below is the only place that will accept attachments > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > > FAMILY ORIGINS - Ordering, UPDATES, books, FAQ, FREE DEMO, Newsletter, > etc. http://formalsoft.com For the 8.03 and 9.02 PATCHES and what they fix, > go to: http://formalsoft.com/files.htm > > > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space. -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ People with dogs are too cowardly to bite for themselves.

"Sandra E. T. Duncan" <[email protected]> wrote: >Well I am still at it ( unifying my places list on my files) But, I have a >lot of NON-PLACE listings in it that came from various imports and I do not >want to lose them, but I do not know how to identify who each one belongs to >(such as Went to college in Sacramento in 1960) >any suggestions? Please! With the NON-PLACE listing highlighted in the place list, click on the print button. It will show you who uses that place. Wayne League

Let's say a man has been married, divorced, and then remarried. FOWin's box charts show his first wife connected to him with a dotted line. That's fine. But the second wife is connected to the first wife, not to the husband, with a dotted line. This leads to problems in some families. Would it be possible in some future version of FOWin to show a second spouse connected to his/her mate rather than to the previous spouse? Ron Doctor Portland, Oregon

Sandra, Go to Reports/Lists/PlaceList click on Print choose Screen which you can then review on your monitor. You could print out a hard copy but way to many pages, I have a small database, under 1900 people, and I run 41 pages. Donovan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: [FO] Place list > Well I am still at it ( unifying my places list on my files) But, I have a > lot of NON-PLACE listings in it that came from various imports and I do not > want to lose them, but I do not know how to identify who each one belongs to > (such as Went to college in Sacramento in 1960) > any suggestions? Please! > > SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN > Sacramento,CA > http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ > http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm > all my mail scanned by Norton > Below is the only place that will accept attachments > [email protected] > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > FAMILY ORIGINS - Ordering, UPDATES, books, FAQ, FREE DEMO, Newsletter, etc. http://formalsoft.com For the 8.03 and 9.02 PATCHES and what they fix, go to: http://formalsoft.com/files.htm > > >

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Suggestion: 1. When you find a place like that, put an asterick (*) at the beginning (or if there are commas in it then after the last comma. 2. After you've marked a bunch, go to Reports Menu, Lists, Place List (with events) and run the report to the screen/printer. All the ones you marked will be at the to of the list, with the events that use them. You can then limit your print out to just the first pages. -----Original Message----- From: Sandra E. T. Duncan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: [FO] Place list >Well I am still at it ( unifying my places list on my files) But, I have a >lot of NON-PLACE listings in it that came from various imports and I do not >want to lose them, but I do not know how to identify who each one belongs to >(such as Went to college in Sacramento in 1960) >any suggestions? Please! > >SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN >Sacramento,CA >http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ > http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm >all my mail scanned by Norton >Below is the only place that will accept attachments >[email protected] >

Well I am still at it ( unifying my places list on my files) But, I have a lot of NON-PLACE listings in it that came from various imports and I do not want to lose them, but I do not know how to identify who each one belongs to (such as Went to college in Sacramento in 1960) any suggestions? Please! SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN Sacramento,CA http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm all my mail scanned by Norton Below is the only place that will accept attachments [email protected]

Hi Folks, Thanks to all who have written with the suggestion to use 'search and replace' to remove the unwanted information in my FO10 file. Unfortunately, that's not an option in my case. It would probably take twice as long to do that than merely advancing name by name, and editing each note. FYI, the text that I want to remove also contains the mother and fathers name. Going through the 'search and replace' routine would require that I run that utility twice, once for each parent. 'Search and Replace' is, in my opinion more for e.g., changing California to CA, etc. Frankly, I was looking for a Q & D way of editing the FPT file that contains the offending information. Jack

Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >When I decided to start using FO10 instead of FTW as my primary database manager, I moved all info over from FTW using a GEDCOM. Included with the info moved over (for each person with a parent) was the "natural relationship" phrase. I've tried creating a GEDCOM from FO10, and removing all of those remarks before re-importing, but haven't been successful in getting the edited/revised file to open.< Select from FO v. 10 screen at the very top <tools> then select <global search and replace> the material is likely in what FO calls the <general note> since FTW has only a single note space and its material goes to the FO general note in my experience. FO should permit replacing with nothing (I haven't tried it myself) Now you will learn how lucky you were to switch to FO <g> One gets to fix screw ups easily. Paul Studly Cleveland/Chesterland, OH [email protected]

If Bruce will accept one - my wish is that if a birth date is not entered, but a baptism date is, that the reports, where appropriate, will show the latter. Here's hoping, Peter, from down under.

"Betty Stokes" <[email protected]> wrote: >I was practicing making a web page and got a message saying FO283 >error. It just paused and went on and there was everything I expected >when I "browsed." It means there was a graphic that FO could not find .... either a linked photo that you called for or a graphic for a bullet or background or other web detail that is normally in the FO program folder. Wayne League

The error was likely "238" and the FO archives has this to say about that: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/F/FAMILY-OR IGINS-USERS+2002+73109031+F ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:32:26 -0400 From: "Kevin Benson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FO] Error FO238 ?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Found this in the archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/F/FAMILY-OR IGINS-USERS+2001+10011676262+F Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:06:21 -0500 From: "Alfred Eller" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FO] Error 238 meaning 238 errors are about the only ones I know anything about. They occur when FOW cannot find a graphics file to move to the website folder. Either you have moved or renamed it, or the name isn't one that is recognized by the web page editor. Any pictures that you have in the scrapbook, or the 'GIF' files that Family Origins uses for buttons or backgrounds that can't be found will cause this error. Now for the fun part, Trying to find which graphics are lost. I think some of the HTML editors will find which links are not working. I have Arachnophilia which will analyze a site to see which links aren't resolved. I know that it is a real job trying to find a bunch of these by going through the site and checking each link. Good Luck, Alfred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Stokes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 2:59 PM Subject: [FO] Message > I was practicing making a web page and got a message saying FO283 error. It just paused and went on and there was everything I expected when I "browsed." > > Does anyone have an idea what it meant? > > Betty

I was practicing making a web page and got a message saying FO283 error. It just paused and went on and there was everything I expected when I "browsed." Does anyone have an idea what it meant? Betty

"Sunny" <[email protected]> wrote: >I want to print out an ancestor chart with the numbering to start at # 2 >instead of #1. I think you may mean a pedigree chart since the ancestor box chart does not number people 1, 2, etc. The ancestor book and the ahnentafel list also number the people that way. In the latter cases you can send the report to an RTF file and delete the first person thus leaving the start at #2. But on the pedigree chart, you cannot get FO to do other than start with #1. What you can do, however, is send the pedigree chart to a PDF file. If you have the Adobe Acrobat, I assume you could modify the numbers in the PDF pedigree chart. If you have ver. 5 of the free Acrobat Reader, you can copy the pedigree as a graphic, open it in your graphics program and painstakingly delete and re-enter each number with what you want it to be. The chart then would be an image and must always be dealt with as such. Wayne League

"Richard G. Akins" <[email protected]> wrote: > can a PDF file be used as a note, >source, multimedia, or any other way of reference? Yes, a PDF file or any type of file at all can be linked into the scrapbook as a document. When you double click on that item in the scrapbook it will open whatever program is associated with that file and display the subject file. If you are using a version previous to FO10, then you can link the PDF or whatever file to the scrapbook as a sound clip or video clip and it will work the same way. It will show as a sound or video but will work just as well. What you cannot do is have FO include that document as a part of any report. What you can do is have FO print a report normally and then let Acrobat Reader, MSWord, or whatever print the document and gather it together with the report after printing. Wayne League

Jack <[email protected]> wrote: >I've tried creating a GEDCOM from FO10, and removing all of those remarks >[the "natural relationship" phrase] >before re-importing, but haven't been successful in getting the >edited/revised file to open. ========== Taking your words literally, maybe you're trying to "open" the gedcom file rather than "importing" it. You don't "open" a gedcom file in FO like you do in FTM. You create a new database and then "import" the gedcom via the file menu in FO. ========== > >Recently I imported into Excel the particular FPT file containing those >comments, and deleted a few of the offending lines. When I tried to open >FO10 I got an out of memory error, or some such. ========== I'm not surprised at that! Messing around with any of the FO database files can only result in grief unless you are really a bona-fide whiz kid! I haven't fooled with any FTM gedcom files in such a long time that I forgot where the "natural relationship" shows up in an FO gedcom import. I thought FO would ignore it. At any rate, if you want to do complicated modifications of a gedcom file or modify an FTM gedcom file so that FO will import it, the Gedcom Explorer or GedX program is the ticket. You can find it at http://www.gedx.com/gedx/ And remember, don't try to "open" the gedcom .... "import" it. Wayne League

Gene Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >Ok! Here is how you will get a Virus from the list--- Nope! You cannot get a virus from the list -- RootsWeb lists specifically prevent any attachments from being sent out. Wayne League

Peter & Glenis Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: >my wish is that if a birth date is not entered, >but a baptism date is, that the reports, where appropriate, will show the >latter. FO already does that with the christening date. You wouldn't want it with the baptism date because that can occur at any time during a person's lifetime. Wayne League

I have some in my database, but found that I need to put them in as a video type. Once that is done and adobe reader is on the drive and associated with pdf files, double clicking in the scrapbook will bring up the information. It won't print in the scrapbook report. Keith Thompson "Richard G. Akins" wrote: > > This has probably been answered many times on the list, but I > can't remember the answer: can a PDF file be used as a note, > source, multimedia, or any other way of reference? I realize that > Acrobat Reader would need to be installed on the PC. Some > documents are nicely stored in the PDF format and it would be > nice to be able to reference them from FO. Perhaps material in > PDF can be stored as compactly in other formats, but the > bookmarking and annotation facilities are very handy. > > Dick > > PS -- Bruce, maybe this is a good wish-list item for RootsMate; as > if you don't have enough to think at present! > > Dick & Eva Sue Akins > Manhattan, KS > > Akins & Commander (NC>GA>AL) > Hughes (MD>KY) > Weinedel (GR>NY>KY) > Bourne (VA>KY) > Ogden & Devore (??>KY) > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > FAMILY ORIGINS - Ordering, UPDATES, books, FAQ, FREE DEMO, Newsletter, etc. http://formalsoft.com For the 8.03 and 9.02 PATCHES and what they fix, go to: http://formalsoft.com/files.htm -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ People with dogs are too cowardly to bite for themselves.