From: Dianne R. <pra...@ya...> - 2011-11-26 12:58:23
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I "inherited" a huge part of my research from my dad, but most of the given and family names were upper-case (as that's how his original software stored them). I've used the tool to correct the family names, but is there a way to correct given names? I've never done any scripting, so I can't mess about with the tool myself. Thanks Dianne |
From: Doug B. <dou...@gm...> - 2011-11-26 14:15:36
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Dianne Reuby <pra...@ya...> wrote: > I "inherited" a huge part of my research from my dad, but most of the > given and family names were upper-case (as that's how his original > software stored them). I've used the tool to correct the family names, > but is there a way to correct given names? No scripting necessary; from the menu: Tools -> Family Tree Processing -> Fix Capitalization of Family Name. That should give you the option to change the ones that are uppercase. -Doug > I've never done any scripting, so I can't mess about with the tool > myself. > > Thanks > Dianne > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |
From: Dianne R. <pra...@ya...> - 2011-11-26 17:53:34
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On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 09:15 -0500, Doug Blank wrote: > No scripting necessary; from the menu: > > Tools -> Family Tree Processing -> Fix Capitalization of Family Name. > > That should give you the option to change the ones that are > uppercase. That works OK on the family names (surnames) but doesn't seem to have an option to correct the given names (forenames). I'm running Gramps 3.3.0-1 on Ubuntu 10.10 Dianne |
From: Doug B. <dou...@gm...> - 2011-11-26 19:01:46
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Dianne Reuby <pra...@ya...> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 09:15 -0500, Doug Blank wrote: >> No scripting necessary; from the menu: >> >> Tools -> Family Tree Processing -> Fix Capitalization of Family Name. >> >> That should give you the option to change the ones that are >> uppercase. > > That works OK on the family names (surnames) but doesn't seem to have an > option to correct the given names (forenames). I'm running Gramps > 3.3.0-1 on Ubuntu 10.10 Sorry.. I didn't read your question carefully enough. As a punishment for my sins, I have added a new Addon for Gramps 3.3 for changing Given Names. I would make a backup before using, but this is based on an almost verbatim copy of the Change Surname Tool, so it should be close to identical to that functionality. You can go to preferences, and update the Addons now, selecting the "Change Given Name" tool. I see that in my own database both of these Change Name tools could be revised: they don't treat punctuation as spaces, and so don't upper-case items in parens or quotes. But it should catch a fair number of case-errors. Let me know if you have any problems, -Doug > Dianne > > |
From: Dianne R. <pra...@ya...> - 2011-11-26 19:26:25
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On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 14:01 -0500, Doug Blank wrote: > I have added a new Addon for Gramps 3.3 for changing > Given Names. I would make a backup before using, but this is based on > an almost verbatim copy of the Change Surname Tool, so it should be > close to identical to that functionality. Thanks - what service! You're worth your weight in census transcripts. :) That worked perfectly, so I've now got only a handful of manual corrections to do which were typos in the original GEDCOM. Dianne |