I received a Gedcom from a relative and she has a last name spelled incorrectly. It is spelled wrong on about 100 records or so. Is there a way I can change the spelling on all these records at once? I sure hope I don't have to go through every record and change them. Carole P Caroraine@aol.com
Open the gedcom in a word processor that has a search/replace function (after all -- a gedcom is nothing but a specially formatted text file). Search for and replace the wrong spelling, then save as a text file with the extension of .ged. You may have to play around with this -- some word processors will automatically add a .txt as the extension and you may have to rename the file. FYI -- Wordpad, which has been in every versioon of Windows has a search/replace function, and it does not seem to replace the extension in my simple little test. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: CaroRaine@aol.com [mailto:CaroRaine@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:16 AM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Correcting spelling of names I received a Gedcom from a relative and she has a last name spelled incorrectly. It is spelled wrong on about 100 records or so. Is there a way I can change the spelling on all these records at once? I sure hope I don't have to go through every record and change them. Carole P Caroraine@aol.com ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS
You can open that Gedcom in WordPad and use find and replace on the last name. Be sure to set the options in WordPad to not use WordWrap. Also, when you do the find and replace be sure to check the "Match whole word only" checkbox. Aloha, John -----Original Message----- From: CaroRaine@aol.com [mailto:CaroRaine@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:16 AM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Correcting spelling of names I received a Gedcom from a relative and she has a last name spelled incorrectly. It is spelled wrong on about 100 records or so. Is there a way I can change the spelling on all these records at once? I sure hope I don't have to go through every record and change them. Carole P Caroraine@aol.com ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS