I have 23000 names and over 6000 locations, and what I did was trick the computer. I search and Replace ', Sweden' with ', Sverige' . Worked for me. Rich in LA CA
-----Original Message----- From: Sven-Ove Westberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 9, 2004 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, commas - good news for the future Will it work if you substitute Sweden with Sverige. You can do that with in Search and replace then lists-location in the where box. Please remember to work on a copy of your data base. When you work on a copy you can also substitute it to nothing. Sven-Ove At 08:09 AM 12/9/2004, you wrote: > While we're talking about locations... > > I have an occasional requirement to omit the country from > locations written to GEDCOM. This is for when I submit data to the > Swedish matching service DISBYT. Their matching software is totally > confused by "Sweden", since it is something else in Swedish. Easiest is > to just leave it off for the submission. Last time I did a bulk delete > (on a copy of my file) of ", Sweden" out of locations, but missed a few, > and it took a while. It occurred to me that *if* I could export short > location names to GEDCOM, I could take off the country name in the short > versions of Swedish locations "once and for all". Or there might be some > other way to handle it - any ideas? > > Ruth Ann > > > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Rich in LA Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
