Is there something about FTM that encouraged users to create this mess of locations? Every FTM-based GEDCOM that I have received has had exactly the same problem. And usually from otherwise very competent, diligent researchers. (I just laboriously used the Combine function on a temporary data file before merging into my main file.)
Ward -----Original Message----- From: magnoliasouth Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 2:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Location merging 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
