Yea, thanks. I don't want to globally change the surnames, I want to change it for a select group of people. The name is valid for plenty of other folks.
Clearly no option in Legacy itself, I haven't had a chance to see if an existing LTools does it yet. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, <anair...@insightbb.com> wrote: > This might help: > > Go to > the son's Individual's screen > see the down arrow beside the > surname> this brings up a list of all surnames in your Legacy program> > here you can globally change any surname(s) and/or merge surnames. By > holding down the shift key you can merge many surnames into one. > > Anne > > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
