At 13/05/2011 10:04, you wrote: >We are transcribing 1953 Deaths, a series of scans in which the >surname appears in CAPITALS. Unfortunately the useful Option >"Surnames in All-Caps" doesn't work for the names like McCLEAN, >McDONALD etc. as the lower-case 'c' will not appear. Surely this >problem has arisen many times before, but I can find no solution on the TKB. If you're happy to edit BMD fies with Notepad, I've found this solution works: 1. Go to the folder containing the BMD files. 2. Right click on the problem one and select Open with.. Notepad. 3. From the Edit menu select Replace. 4. Replace MC with Mc and tick the Match Case box (that's important otherwise it will act on lower case words like District names). 5. Depending on how many replacements you need to make either click Replace until you reach the end, or Replace all (but the latter is risky as it will act on other surnames where M and C are adjacent such as SIMCOCK). 6. Save the file. 7. Run BMDVerify. Dave Headey

Hello Dave, Yesterday I volunteered to do some transcribing and I sent an email re the newsletter. Since then, I have received this email from you but it does not make sense. I also received many others from various names all to do with Mc etc. It would seem that my email address has been compromised since sending my email yesterday. I therefore have concerns about this and the security. Regards, Gillian On 5/14/2011 8:02 AM, Dave Headey wrote: > At 13/05/2011 10:04, you wrote: >> We are transcribing 1953 Deaths, a series of scans in which the >> surname appears in CAPITALS. Unfortunately the useful Option >> "Surnames in All-Caps" doesn't work for the names like McCLEAN, >> McDONALD etc. as the lower-case 'c' will not appear. Surely this >> problem has arisen many times before, but I can find no solution on the TKB. > If you're happy to edit BMD fies with Notepad, I've found this solution works: > > 1. Go to the folder containing the BMD files. > 2. Right click on the problem one and select Open with.. Notepad. > 3. From the Edit menu select Replace. > 4. Replace MC with Mc and tick the Match Case box (that's important > otherwise it will act on lower case words like District names). > 5. Depending on how many replacements you need to make either click > Replace until you reach the end, or Replace all (but the latter is > risky as it will act on other surnames where M and C are adjacent > such as SIMCOCK). > 6. Save the file. > 7. Run BMDVerify. > > Dave Headey > > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Gillian Holt