Unfortunately there are no options to limit a Search & Replace operation to a given tag set or the Search List or Focus Group (sounds like a good enhancement suggestion), but I think you could limit the effort of doing it manually by making the edits in the Edit Tab of the Search List window. Type the new name in on the first record, then just click on each subsequent record in the search list, click the Surname Label, and then click Yes in the confirmation window.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Replace surname for a family 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 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
