Since I presume there are people in the file who legitimately retained the surname of the parents you cannot just edit the existing surname in the Master surname list, that will apply the change to everyone.
Legacy does not contain a tool to change the surname for a tagged list so you would have to use some external tool (There is a tool called Ltools sold for manipulating a Legacy database but I do not know if it includes this kind of capability) or access the database using MS Access and an update query. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 17/04/2014 9:32 AM, Scott Hall wrote: > I'm stuck on how to do a mass replace for a family name .... at one point a > son changed the spelling of his surname from that of his parents. I've > isolated all of his descendants with tagging, but can't figure out how to > replace the surname for all of the tagged records at once ... there are 421 > people with this condition, so i don't want to do it one-by-one. > > Can someone tell me? > > Thanks, > Scott 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
