Ron, Thanks for the suggest regarding Ltools and Dennis. Looks like I am going to be able to accomplish what I wanted without the need to copy/past 1258 times!
Cliff Gittens On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Cliff, > > I’m sorry about the blank post, my email reader crashed! > > I don’t think that you can do this from within Legacy but you could use > Access or OpenOffice. I am not sure if LTools has a routine to do this, but > for its users Dennis may be prepared to write the SQL for use in his > program. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: Cliff Gittens > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:26 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy File help > > I have added 1248 records from the 1860 US Federal Census into my database. > There are all linked in individual family units just as they appear in the > census. I have detail information in the following format that was added to > the "General Notes" field for each record: > "United States Census", 1860, index, FamilySearch > (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC7R-HRG: accessed 22 Jan 2013), Jane > K Gittens, Kings, New York, citing p. 51, family 414, NARA microfilm > publication M653," FHL microfilm 803773 > > > I have also created a Census Event for each of the 1248 people, with year > and location. > > What I would like to do is move the information currently in the "General > Notes" field, into the notes field in the "Census Event", without having to > copy/paste 1248 times. > > Can this be done? > > > -- > Cliff Gittens > Gittens One-name Study > Surrey, BC, Canada > www.gittensfamily.ca > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- Cliff Gittens Gittens One-name Study Surrey, BC, Canada www.gittensfamily.ca Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
