Cathy,
I do not know Access but I take it it has a Search & Replace facility so
should be pretty fast in changing Source Names. However, if you are going to
look at changing the details in a Gedcom as text, and for those who do not
have Access, I would suggest downloading the free program PSPad from:
http://www.pspad.com/en/ which is basically a text editor.
Personally, I do not change the sources, other than to merge them into mine,
as I verify all myself before accepting them and only use PSPad for writing
html etc.
Ron Ferguson
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From: Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sourcing Sources
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:34:24 +0800
Hi Moira,
You can't do this automatically.
If you import to a new Legacy file to clean up locations etc, I also clean
up sources at the same time.
In the Master Source List, I edit the Source list name and Title of each by
adding "Joe Bloggs from" to the beginning of each.
You can do this faster in Access but possible in Legacy. I hadn't thought
of doing it in the Gedcom itself - must try that.
I find this much more useful than just adding them as a source to each bit
of data on import as that still leaves their sources intact which aren't
mine. Although I do that as well so that they're still there as a source
when I've checked their sources and made them mine and deleted theirs. This
is also important as they may have unsourced data in their file and I want
to know that it came from them and it wasn't me forgetting to add my source
when I entered the data. I don't forget often but sometimes miss clicking
the Source Clipboard.
I don't use the general automatic sourcing that just enters them in the
unspecified source field.
Cheers,
Cathy
At 12:53 AM 18/04/2007, you wrote:
Hi Jenny
Thanks for the response but I know about that feature. I don't think I
have
explained correctly.
When one imports gedcom's that already have sources attached to the
records,
these sources get added to your source list. What one ends up with are
lots
of sources that you have not created yourself. If I could prefix the
source
coming in, I could at least know where it came from when I look at my
master
source list.
Regards
Moira
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