OK, had not thought of setting up the Gedcom from Ancestry, changing all the
Est to Abt, doing the same with my existing Legacy file before doing the merge.
Not exactly what I want but it would work and save time.
Never done a search and replace but going to make a duplicate file and try this
on existing Legacy file.
Your comments on making my Gedcom a Text file have me confused. I normally just
ask Ancestry to make a Gedcom, did not know I should make some adjustment to it
or that I could even do something different. Feel free to email me directly
with some help on this if you would.
Thx for the solution for the changing of the files, really appreciate. Lucy
AbbottMill Creek, WA, USA
On Monday, July 3, 2017 4:28 PM, "J.M. "Jay" Ingalls"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Lucy Abbott,
Remember to save the file as PLAIN text with the ".ged" file extension,
or it will include "garbage" you do not want from what I have been told
in the past.
Jay Ingalls
On 7/3/2017 3:51 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> On 03-Jul-17 07:59 PM, Lucy Abbott wrote:
>>
>> Give me an option here that I can use. I want to stay with Est
>> because there is no way that I know of to change all the ones on
>> Ancestry and I had planned on downloading a Gedcom and merging that
>> file with my Legacy file once I have done all the research at that
>> site. Without this correction, many more hours will need to be used
>> on the merge. My merge is scottish names and 60% are duplicate type
>> names due to naming conventions so hours and hours are needed for the
>> merge and this has me frustrated thinking of how many more hours will
>> be needed to change the dates headings.
>
> If it turns out that you DO have to change "est" to something else, it
> needn't take hours. If you open your Gedcom as a Legacy file you
> could use the Search & Replace function to change all the instances of
> "est" in each Date field. Granted, not a single-step option, but
> wouldn't take too long. In fact, a Gedcom being text file I think you
> could probably do the Search & Replace in the Gedcom with WP program.)
>
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