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] >