Anairene,
Brilliant. That would work.
Ron Taylor
On Friday, April 18, 2014 3:03 PM, "anair...@insightbb.com"
wrote:
another idea - import just the tagged folks into a new empty Legacy
Database. Change the surname for those people globally > import back
into your main database> attach the son
another idea - import just the tagged folks into a new empty Legacy
Database. Change the surname for those people globally > import back
into your main database> attach the son (with the new surname) to his
parents> if all is well then delete those that you first tagged. Making
sure no tags rema
The author of LTools emailed me privately saying that LTools does not
have the ability to change surnames for a focus or tagged group.
It looks like you will have to use the search list results and the Edit
tab on the right to individually change the surname for those who are
affected.
Brian
Cust
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, 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.
Ann
7 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Replace surname for a family
Since I presume there are people in the file who legitimately retained the
surname of the parents you cannot just edit the existing surname in the Master
surname list, that will apply the change to ever
Since I presume there are people in the file who legitimately retained
the surname of the parents you cannot just edit the existing surname in
the Master surname list, that will apply the change to everyone.
Legacy does not contain a tool to change the surname for a tagged list
so you would have t
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
p
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