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 my screen caps again. The short answer is that I'll have a location that says Franklin, AL and when I go to replace AL with Alabama it says there were 0 replacements, AL was not found. REALLY???!!! It's all over the place! The list that displays the AL example above: http://goo.gl/5TjOsa The operators I used to search and replace: http://goo.gl/6eO9ph The results: http://goo.gl/JSRf3Y Oh and I if I remove the comma, it still says 0 replacements. I thought maybe that was a problem, but alas, it was not. Anyway, because you were all so kind as to respond, I have responded to each of you below. Hopefully I missed no one. :) On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 have a number of towns included as well. I do. I saw that as an issue. There really needs to be a csv Location merge function. There is no reason not to have one. You could then also turn options on and off to match anything between commas. This way it wouldn't mess up any entries with towns in them. I fully expected it to have this funciton and was very surprised it didn't exist. I also felt like the replace function would work, but it doesn't, as I mentioned above. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:05 AM, C.G. Ouimet <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes CSV's for all list outputs would be good ... > > > C.G. Ouimet > Kingston ON That's exactly what I was wanting (I agree about the events too). I was disappointed to find that a report of my locations required only a pdf, but it also forced me into accepting (at the minimum) how many individuals each was assigned to. I couldn't care less about that. All I want is a report of locations. Anyway, the functionality of csv is much better in fixing problems like this than whatever it is that this does. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:02 AM, David Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > David LOL! Yeah, I agree. I like the functionality of the Master Source view. You can tag certain sources then hide those not tagged. Then you can merge and do whatnot. Now THAT was extremely helpful. I was very pleased with how that worked out and it was simple. I could see something similar here. Tagging everything that says Sumter then hiding all the other stuff so I can fix that one area. In fact, if it had worked that way, I wouldn't have asked for any help on the list. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:09 AM, singhals <[email protected]> wrote: > To reduce the pain a bit, though, you can select the version > you want, copy the info, then just paste it over the other > source names and then merge dupes. IME, it keeps the detail > on each and saves a lot of rekeying. > > Cheryl I don't know why, because it sounds so simple, but this confuses me. Wouldn't merging duplicates keep the details? Oh wait. I think I understand what you mean. You mean copy/paste the location name I like such as copying , , Sumter County, Georgia and pasting it over Sumter Co., GA. I agree, that's the least painful way and that's what I did day before yesterday and it took HOURS. I literally spent 8 hours fixing all my locations. The unfortunate thing was that I realized there were a lot of individual merges that weren't right, so I had to resort to going back to the original file and starting all over again. I tell you, I cried real tears. Real! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:26 AM, David Abernathy <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you edited these entries with errors per the instructions from the Help? > > Combining Duplicate Locations > > When correcting misspelled place names, you may find that you end up with > duplicates within the Master Location List. To remove these duplicates and > clean up the list, choose the Combine option. Legacy then goes through the > list, combines the duplicates and moves the links. > > Thanks, > David C Abernathy Yes, thank you. In my original message I explained why that wasn't working for me. The problem is the 300 same place names and scrolling through thousands to go back and forth. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Bob Austen <[email protected]> wrote: > Using Search and Replace might help you in this situation. > Bob A You are so kind for those instructions and that was what I was hoping for most. However the search didn't work for me for some reason. I have screen caps above that you can take a look at and see what I mean. Honestly, I thought I was in the twilight zone. Last night I went to Findagrave.com and did a search with a name, location and death date and it said zero results. I went to Google and had it search Findagrave.com, entered the exact same information and it found what I entered. lol! I was like "well maybe my computer is just in total love with Google and refuses to search any other way." lol! ;) On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... That's an interesting idea. You don't feel you're duplicating information that way? I would love it if we could export a cvs list of locations, then import and merge those. Wouldn't that be ideal? On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:09 AM, 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? 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