Sharon:
Do a detail search for these
Tag them..then use the results in the "search results name list//
Once in that name list edit from there "cut and paste" then delete each
one.
Tedious but this will work..and who said genealogy would be easy
Good luck
Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Ann Kåsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A hard nut to crack - AFN #s in event fields
> Thanks for the suggestions. I have about 14,000 entries (not all with
AFN).
> The GED file was imported in Nov/Dec and I have done considerable work in
> Legacy since then. Exporting a GED from Legacy, modifying it and
> reimporting will give me a lot of duplications. Although these can be
> merged, the GED increases the chances for new errors.
>
> I have given some thought to using Access to make the changes, but would
> like to hear from someone who has tried making changes in Access and
> reopening the database as a Legacy db afterwards.
>
> In any case, I would like to be able to delete the event AFN from Legacy.
> Can anyone tell me a way to do that? Is there a way to tag the users of
this
> event and delete the event from each user so that I can delete AFN event
> from the master list?
>
> Thanks
> Sharon from Norway
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A hard nut to crack - AFN #s in event fields
>
>
> > Hi Sharon,
> >
> > The only thing that comes to mind is to edit the GEDCOM *before* you
> > put the data into legacy. You *might* be able to change things with a
> > mass "search-and-replace". The GEDCOM is just a text file (probably
> > ANSI) and you can use just about any Word-processing or editing program
> > on it, as long as you save the results as a text file when you're
> > through.
> >
> > I'd suggest you set up a small test file with a couple of people in it,
> > and look at how an actual AFN in the "right" place in LEGACY looks when
> > you put it out as part of a GEDCOM. Then put the same or similar info
> > into FTW they way you did, and look at *its* GEDCOM. Then see if some
> > search on the FTW GEDCOM can find and replace what it has with what the
> > LEGACY GEDCOM has. I'm not sure it's workable without trying it myself,
> > but certainly worth investigating.
> >
> > It might also be possible to write a small program to look through the
> > file and do the replacements for you - a bit more complex and you'd have
> > to know some programming language (my husband *loves* to do such things
> > in BASIC).
> >
> > Ruth Ann
> > (who has lots of distant relatives in Norway)
> >
> > "Sharon Ann Kåsa" wrote:
> > >
> > > I hope someone can give me a solution to this one:
> > >
> > > When I was using FamilyTree Maker I put AFN numbers in an event I
called
> AFN
> > > (Ancestry File Number). I didn't find any other solution and was
rather
> > > "green". This was dumb, but done is done.
> > >
> > > When the database was exported to a GEDCOM and imported into Legacy,
> these
> > > remained as an event. I would like to do two things:
> > >
> > > 1. Move the AFN to the proper field in Legacy. There are several
> hundred,
> > > moving them one at a time is going to take ages. Is there an
> easier/quicker
> > > way?
> > >
> > > 2. Delete the event name and all "AFN" events from the master list. I
> can't
> > > do this as long as the event is in use, so I need to know if there is
a
> way
> > > to tag and delete - or somehow delete this event from all the people
who
> are
> > > assigned an AFN event.
> > >
> > > Forever thankful for a solution...
> > > Sharon from Norway
> > >
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