Yes and it's great - until the next time the program duplicates them and I have to repeat the process all over again (often for exactly the same places. I usually have to clean out the duplicates every couple of months. Caroline Gurney On 5 December 2011 01:04, John Donaldson <johndd@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Yes it does but you are rewarded by clean place data > > > John D > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Caroline Gurney > Sent: Monday, 5 December 2011 11:34 AM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Several problems with Places in FTM 2010,2011 and > 2012 > > Yes, I know John, that's what I use. What takes the time is scrolling > through 2,000 place names to find the ones that have been duplicated and > then fixing 85 of them. > > On 4 December 2011 23:08, John Donaldson <johndd@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> The PNA has an excellent tool to replace a place name with another. >> Great for fixing duplicates and near duplicates >> >> Simply right click on the duplicate place name and then select replace >> with another and select the name that you want to substitute >> >> John D > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message