> > You can print a list with all the Place Details. Go to: > Lists|Place Lists|Print|Print all places in database with the box opposite > Print place details checked|Generate Report > > That will generate a list of all the Places with the Place Details > indented so you can easily see them. You can then easily see if there are > dups by scrolling through the list. > > Alternately, you can also save the list as a text file, open it in a text > handling program like Notebook, copy the text and paste the information in > a spreadsheet. The Place Details will go in the second column. You can then > easily scroll down to each Place Detail. > > __________________________________________________ >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 19:00:25 -0800 >> From: Betty Briggs <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [RMagic] Duplicated "place detail" names >> To: "David E. Cann" <[email protected]>, >> [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> >> David, I have the same problem and am working on cleaning it up. I don?t >> know if this is what you want, but it?s what works for me. >> >> First, when I find a duplication of Cemeteries as you have, I edit them >> one at a time: >> Edit place >> Split place/details - I split out all text except the county, state, >> country and enter that in the Place Detail box. >> With the county name now coming first, I click on the name of the county >> that is already in the format I want, then click on Merge and select the >> entry I just split. >> I repeat with each of the cemeteries with multiple places, then click on >> place details and merge all the cemeteries, making sure any city, township, >> etc, details are in the final selection. >> >> One cemetery I merged today was listed 5 ways, and I merged them by >> merging place details. I figure I?ll finish merging places sometime in the >> year 2020. :) >> >> Good luck! >> Betty >> >> > On Feb 28, 2015, at 2:06 PM, David E. Cann via < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Jim, >> > >> > I understand that, but you can't do it if you don't know they are there >> in >> > the first place. I am trying to figure out (not very successfully) a >> way of >> > entering them only once and avoiding the duplication first off. :-( >> > >> > >> > David E. Cann >> > [email protected] >> > >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] >> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim >> Belanger via >> > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 3:50 PM >> > To: David E. Cann via >> > Subject: Re: [RMagic] Duplicated "place detail" names >> > >> > You can merge similar place details just like you do places. >> > >> > >> > >> > Jim Belanger >> > NH State Representative >> > [email protected] >> > Town Moderator; Hollis, NH >> > Sent from my iPad >> > >> >> On Feb 28, 2015, at 3:10 PM, David E. Cann via >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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] >> >