Joseph's suggestions are some that I use often. I would only add that use of
the Load and Save buttons in the Search tool can make some of these
searches easy to replicate when needed.
Ron Taylor
On Thursday, April 17, 2014 4:19 PM, JV Leavitt jleavi...@att.net wrote:
Replying to my own post:
Here's a SQL script that I use to find all occurances of a string in the Master
Locations Table. It can be run in Ltools or MS Access. When the location
parameter is requested, enter anything like Sumter and all entries that
contain that in any position will be found and displayed.
SELECT
This is an excellent suggestion. Perhaps you copy your example of what
your search would look like into an enhancement suggestion. We would all
benefit from that! Kathy
On Sunday, April 13, 2014, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a horrible list of locations. I understand
I hope I'm not repeating too much already found in previous posts, but,
since we don't have a Location Merge function, would it help to do these
things:
First (of course), if there are MANY records using the SAME incorrect
format, then I presume that you would for sure want to use the Master
Replying to my own post:
I read my message over several times, making changes, and finally
sending it, after which I see it posted with the word preciously instead
of previously, and other words left out, etc. Woe is me. :-)
Joseph Leavitt
On 4/17/2014 12:26 PM, JV Leavitt wrote:
I hope I'm
And IME if I manage to hit CTL before SHIFT, the computer
sees that as a difference. No matter how advanced the AI,
the human eye/brain combo will recognize Fred Co Md and
Frederick Co., Maryland as duplicates, but the computer
will complain there has never been a Fred Co in Maryland.
(eye roll).
, 2014 7:23 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location merging
Wel in the days when I was using FTM (I stopped at FTM 6 when I switched to
Legacy 5 in 1996) there was no place. A fact/event had a comment where you
could put anything you chose. For some types of events
@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location merging
And IME if I manage to hit CTL before SHIFT, the computer sees that as a
difference. No matter how advanced the AI, the human eye/brain combo will
recognize Fred Co Md and Frederick Co., Maryland as duplicates, but the
computer will complain
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:54 AM, singhals singh...@erols.com wrote:
And IME if I manage to hit CTL before SHIFT, the computer
sees that as a difference. No matter how advanced the AI,
the human eye/brain combo will recognize Fred Co Md and
Frederick Co., Maryland as duplicates, but the
Just like with Legacy, the user must be taught the proper use of the built in
tools, and then things do work much better.
The thing is, computers were designed to do the work for us. To not
take advantage of that, is a mistake. There will ALWAYS be users that
will not enter things in the
Although I appreciate what you are saying, you do have a serious
misconception. Computers were designed to make your work easier, not do
your work for you. Personally, I like to think that overall, I am much
smarter and definitely have much more commonsense than a computer. I have
a strong
Ron,
I feel the same way about you. I appreciate what YOU are trying to
say, but I respectfully disagree. Easier work is because it does it
for you. I do a lot of programming and the whole point to it is to
alleviate work, else the program is useless.
Common sense has little to do with
It'll never fly. A lot of the problems discussed here, and
a lot of my own problems, are caused by the user wanting to
do things in an individual style. Since there are as many
individual styles as there are individual users ...?
There'll be the Europeans complaining of a 4-level place
field;
I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine
locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much
scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top
isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't
help me.
What I need to do is
On 13 Apr 2014 08:09, magnoliasouth wrote:
Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they
are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too
long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to
do it that way.
300 is not a lot! I have
I don't think there is any easy way around this.
Instead of merging each one to your final choice, you could merge the
ones that are near each other first.
However, with the examples you provide, they'd all be together if
you were sorting left to right instead of right to left - but you
probably
There is a way to tag all the locations containing Sumter but what you
can do with the list after that I do not know.
It involves changing the sort order step-by-step and the number of steps
depends on how many elements you need to check. I'll do it for generic
terms but if you are in the USA and
magnoliasouth wrote:
I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine
locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much
scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top
isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't
help
A
-Original Message-
From: magnoliasouth [mailto:magnoliaso...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:09 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Location merging
I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine locations, but
that's not working for me
I created a cvs spreadsheet and used that externally to group my common
places.
At least then I knew what to look for in the Legacy location listing.
And I have over 5,000 locations...
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:09 PM, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a horrible list of
Many, MANY thanks for the suggestions and the sorry but you'll just
have to deal with it answers. I appreciate the sentiments. lol!
Oh and when I said 300, I meant 300 ways of Sumter County. lol! Who knew?
The search function doesn't appear to work properly either. To prove
the problem, I'll do
Georgia, Sumter
Georgia, Sumter County
Georgia, Sumter Co.
GA, Sumter
GA, Sumter County
USA, GA, Sumter
USA, GA Sumter County
USA, Ga. Sumter County
United States, Georgia, Sumter
Sumter
Options in the Location list can take care of GA/Georgia, and USA/United States
if the locations are entered
: [LegacyUG] Location merging
Many, MANY thanks for the suggestions and the sorry but you'll just have to
deal with it answers. I appreciate the sentiments. lol!
Oh and when I said 300, I meant 300 ways of Sumter County. lol! Who knew?
The search function doesn't appear to work properly either. To prove
On 13/04/2014 22:46, C.G. Ouimet wrote:
In the Search Replace dialog, I would try un-checking Match Case and
selecting Anywhere in Field ...
Just in case there's a , Al somewhere which is NOT to be changed, I'd
leave Match Case checked, but change the Exact to Ends with. It's
the Exact which
before merging into my main file.)
Ward
-Original Message-
From: magnoliasouth
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 2:09 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Location merging
I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine
locations, but that's
Try two (2) commas before
Regards
Laurence E Stephenson
-- Original Message --
From: magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Sent: 14/04/2014 7:37:52 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location merging
Many, MANY thanks for the suggestions and the sorry
The first thing you could do is to go to the Master location list and on the
right side click the Options button and pick Purge unused. This will
eliminate all the locations that are not being used by anyone in your file.
Sumter is all over the place and some location entries
don't even have
I am not certain that all the options functions are working properly on
the Master Lists Locations. Purge works but auto merge does not. I ran
it while looking at two locations that were identical (I checked) and
ran merge. It reported no duplicates. Also, as I understand it, one of
the
Wel in the days when I was using FTM (I stopped at FTM 6 when I switched
to Legacy 5 in 1996) there was no place. A fact/event had a comment
where you could put anything you chose. For some types of events it
might be a place but if it was an occupation for example the comments
might contain the
If there's the slightest difference between locations (other than the
capitalization), such as a comma or lack of one or an extra space,
Legacy won't recognize it as a duplicate.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Bernd Hornung
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location merging
I am not certain that all the options functions are working properly on the
Master Lists Locations. Purge works but auto merge does not. I ran it while
looking at two locations that were identical (I checked) and ran merge
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