Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events

2016-08-17 Thread Cathy Pinner
Martha, You were right to export to a new Legacy file to make your change as currently you can't do a search and replace on a tagged group. In importing them back, you would duplicate them all but the Intellishare feature should help with the merge. If you actually exported via gedcom, you

Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events

2016-08-17 Thread Martha Graham
Hello, The name 'Zink Data' refers to the lady who did the original research: Arleen Zink. Here is a sample of the data that was typed up after the research was done. "Dennis was the son of a wooden shoe maker. He had little to no education. His occupation was termed "day laborer." He and

Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events

2016-08-17 Thread R G Strong-genes
It seems that something like that would be a source and not an event. -Original Message- From: Martha Graham Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:53 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events Hi Jennie, Thank you. It is not the event notes I wish to

Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events

2016-08-17 Thread Martha Graham
Hi Jennie, Thank you. It is not the event notes I wish to change, it is the event description. But I thank you for the detailed explanation. Here is what I have: Event Name: Family Files Event Desc: Blank Event Date: Jan 1997 Here is what I want to have Event Name: Family Files Event Desc:

Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events

2016-08-17 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 16-Aug-16 11:25 PM, Martha Graham wrote: Good Afternoon, I have a set of files generated from years of research on one immigrant family. I abstracted the data and created an event for the data which is now attached to each person in the file [almost 400 entries]. The data for each person is