There are a few detractors of place details. A GEDCOM transfer to some other program might not understand it too well. (that's about all the bad that I can think of.) Changing to place details isn't as difficult as it looks. For a bit of a trial of this, *backup your database* Now rename the one you are going to work with, add something like "with place details" before the dot. OK, go to the Lists menu then the Pace list. Scroll down to some place you know has a churches or cemetery listed in some town. With it highlighted, click the edit button, in the edit box near the lower right corner, click on "Split place/details" The top field will show the place as is is now, My example: "Memorial Park Cem., Huron, Beadle, South Dakota" Place the cursor just before the town name, Huron press the mouse button and drag clear to the left highlighting: "Memorial Park Cem., " With that highlighted, hit the Ctrl+X combination to CUT it Go to the place detail field and press the Ctrl+V to paste it there, You can edit it a bit, remove the comma and maybe type out the complete word for Cemetery. Everyone who was buried there is now updated. Going through the place list you can do this with one after another, when you get a bunch of them done you may find you have several places with the same name, you can them merge them and end up with one place with all the place details. You may find you don't like it, if not, restore your backup and forgetaboutit. It took me much longer to type this out than it would to do it. Alfred ======== Laurie Nelson wrote: > I finally broke down and updated from RM3 to RM6, and I'm really liking it. > When I updated to RM4, I disliked it so much that I went back to RM3--even > though I have been using this product since it was Family Origins--and I > never tried RM5. > > Now I'm wondering what are the advantages of putting a specific place, such > as a cemetery name, in Place Details? In the past I've either put the > cemetery name in the note or, if I have a lot of people buried in the same > cemetery, I put a dash following the city, county, state and put the > cemetery name there so I can easily select it from the Place list. > > I don't want to change my procedure unless there's a really good reason, > since I have a lot of data that would be impacted. I'd rather spend my time > adding new data than changing place data unless there's a good reason. > > TIA for any information. > > Laurie Nelson > >

That works well! Is it possible to edit place details? From: Alfred Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:22 PM To: Laurie Nelson ; rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Advantages of Using Place Details? There are a few detractors of place details. A GEDCOM transfer to some other program might not understand it too well. (that's about all the bad that I can think of.) Changing to place details isn't as difficult as it looks. For a bit of a trial of this, *backup your database* Now rename the one you are going to work with, add something like "with place details" before the dot. OK, go to the Lists menu then the Pace list. Scroll down to some place you know has a churches or cemetery listed in some town. With it highlighted, click the edit button, in the edit box near the lower right corner, click on "Split place/details" The top field will show the place as is is now, My example: "Memorial Park Cem., Huron, Beadle, South Dakota" Place the cursor just before the town name, Huron press the mouse button and drag clear to the left highlighting: "Memorial Park Cem., " With that highlighted, hit the Ctrl+X combination to CUT it Go to the place detail field and press the Ctrl+V to paste it there, You can edit it a bit, remove the comma and maybe type out the complete word for Cemetery. Everyone who was buried there is now updated. Going through the place list you can do this with one after another, when you get a bunch of them done you may find you have several places with the same name, you can them merge them and end up with one place with all the place details. You may find you don't like it, if not, restore your backup and forgetaboutit. It took me much longer to type this out than it would to do it. Alfred ======== Laurie Nelson wrote: > I finally broke down and updated from RM3 to RM6, and I'm really liking it. > When I updated to RM4, I disliked it so much that I went back to RM3--even > though I have been using this product since it was Family Origins--and I > never tried RM5. > > Now I'm wondering what are the advantages of putting a specific place, such > as a cemetery name, in Place Details? In the past I've either put the > cemetery name in the note or, if I have a lot of people buried in the same > cemetery, I put a dash following the city, county, state and put the > cemetery name there so I can easily select it from the Place list. > > I don't want to change my procedure unless there's a really good reason, > since I have a lot of data that would be impacted. I'd rather spend my time > adding new data than changing place data unless there's a good reason. > > TIA for any information. > > Laurie Nelson > > =================================== 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 ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2793 / Virus Database: 2629/5917 - Release Date: 11/24/12