Family Historian User Group

Is there an easy way to search & replace dates.
I have just realised that one of my custom AS census templates had the wrong date for the 1861 census.
I have tried the search & replace plugin, but this doesn't work on dates (or is it possible to modify it to do so?) I have just under 4000 entries that need changing, so manually one by one is not a happy option

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I'm sure there will be a LUA way to do this but if you open your GEDCOM file in a text editor (notepad is a good choice) then you could do a Find/Replace on the date. Make a backup first and obviously be careful in case any other events have this date correctly set.

Nick

The search and replace plugin only processes text fields, but as Nick says you can easily change it to match dates rather than text fields.

Give it a try, I think the search replace is fairly well documented.

If you get stuck shout and I'll try and build one for you.