Using all those fields renders the database less usable by non RM users. Paul A. Studly, Esq. Chesterland/Cleveland, OH 440-829-9207 Verizon cell [email protected] Twitter @PaulStudly ________________________________ From: David E. Cann via <[email protected]> To: RootsMagic Users List Posting <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [RMagic] Duplicated "place detail" names Lou, I don't want to. Been doing it that way for years, but now I want to use the fields in the Webmaster's wonderful software for their intended purpose, and that is made more difficult by unintended duplicate place detail names to correct. Thank you for the reply. David E. Cann [email protected] From: Lou Love [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 3:54 PM To: David E. Cann; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] Duplicated "place detail" names David I forgot to add - I don't know why you could not do the same as I suggested in REVERSE - That is using your Cemetery as the PRIMARY Place and the City, Twnsp or Co., as the detail in order to detail all the folks buried in one cemetery for example. again, Good luck Lou From: David E. Cann via <[email protected]> To: RootsMagic Users List Posting <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 2:10 PM Subject: [RMagic] Duplicated "place detail" names I think I already know the answer to this question, but is there any way of avoiding duplicated Place DETAIL name at entry, such as with the following actual example: Sugar Grove Cemetery, Union Township, Clinton County, Ohio Sugar Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio Sugar Grove Cemetery, Clinton County, Ohio The above are shown as an example of what I mean ONLY, but the cemetery IS truly not only in the city but in the township and county as well, all at the same time. Now approaching 58,000 individuals, each entered one fact at a time, I am starting to realize that some of my place details are entered twice because not only did the source state them inconsistently, but I did not catch them each at time of entry. With a place name entry, RM suggests a currently entered entry for you making is pretty easy to avoid duplication of places, but there is no such feature with place details that I know of. I don't know if such a feature is even possible given the structure of our place and/or place detail names, but speaking only for myself it would sure save me some time going back and correcting work already done fixing duplicate entries. I've even tried to find a report to list all place details in alphabetical order, so I can check it by county or some such every now and then, but I'm unable to think of any list, report or tool that effectively works for something like this. I welcome any ideas from anyone on this. Maybe the RootsMagician can come up with the means of using the "smart entry" tool (or whatever it is called) currently doing wonderful things with place name entries, and modify it to create one to work effectively in place details but I fear that may not be feasible. :-( David E. Cann [email protected] =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message