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Christening or Baptism?
Posted: 11 Sep 2004 13:27
by aragorn
Can anyone tell me the difference between a Christening and a Baptism?
I am trying to 'tidy up' some of my FH columns and in different sources the same individual can be both christened and baptised but are they really the same thing or is there a subtle difference?[confused]
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Christening or Baptism?
Posted: 11 Sep 2004 15:08
by Jane
This was discussed on the Mailing list a while ago in great detail.
To review the thread, click on Mailing List on the menu to the left and search for 'Christening' , you can then review all the comments posted on the subject.
Personally I put them all as Baptisums. I used a text editor to do a search and replace and changed the type of all the Christening events to Baptisums.
Christening or Baptism?
Posted: 12 Sep 2004 12:13
by aragorn
How do I find a text editor and how do I use it?
Christening or Baptism?
Posted: 12 Sep 2004 12:40
by Jane
Using a text editor such as textpad (link in the links section), or
PSPad
Make sure FH is not running and you have a safe copy of your file.
Open your GEDCOM file using the text editor.
Do a global search a replace
1 CHR
with
1 BAPM
In Textpad using regular expressions you can say
n1 CHR
with
n1 BAPM
which will replace the lines only where they start on at the beginning of a line.