Family Historian User Group

If Ive mispelt a surname the first time Ive entered it then all the descendants of that person end up with the same mispelt surname. Is there a quick and easy way of changing all the people with the same mispelyt surname by some sort of Find and replace?

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David

Probably the easiest way is to edit your GEDCOM file using a text editor. You can then use the editor's Search/Find and Replace option. Remember to make a a copy of your GEDCOM file first just in case something goes wrong with the Search and Replace.

If your a Windows user and your file isn't too big, Notepad may be sufficient.

Regards

Lindsey

Run Windows Explorer, browse to the folder where your gedcom files is stored, make a copy of the file, right click on the copy file and select open with, select notepad, if it is not in the list, click on select program and find notepad.  Then whn you have the file open in notepad, from the menu select Edit / Replace.

Type in '/BLOGGS/' in the find what box

in the replace with, type in '/BLAGGS/'

omit the quotes, but leave the '/' in, and replace the names with what you actually need, this will do as you want.

When you are happy that it is to your liking, you can then rename the files as you wish..