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 <[email protected]>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 me. > > What I need to do is do a search for one word and get a list of all > locations that have that word in its various forms. For example: > > Let's say I want to search for Sumter. > > I want to get all of the results like this: > > 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 > > You see the problem and I use this one because it's my worst > nightmare. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries > don't even have anything else in them. > > 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. > > How can I fix this? Please, tell me there is an easy way? > > Many thanks. :) > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > 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 > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
