Converting text in a GED file

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Trent SC

Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Trent SC » 09 jan 2005 22:52:06

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin entered
all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at converting it into
lower case to make it easier to read. This would also tie in with my own
database and will have a degree of continuity when I merge the two databases
at some point in the next few months (the family line is now traced back to
AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and surname,
I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the trick? I
use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility like this;
with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it manually!

TIA

Otto Jørgensen

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Otto Jørgensen » 09 jan 2005 23:09:47

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:52:06 -0000, in alt.genealogy "Trent SC"
<trent@invalid.invalid> wrote:

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin entered
all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at converting it into
lower case to make it easier to read. This would also tie in with my own
database and will have a degree of continuity when I merge the two databases
at some point in the next few months (the family line is now traced back to
AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and surname,
I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the trick? I
use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility like this;
with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it manually!

You should import the data to a temp database and I believe your

program have a function to convert all Upper case in names to Normal
characters.

Unfortunately, somebody have told a lot of people to use Upper Case

But some programs do have the function to fix that garbarge ;)

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Otto Jørgensen
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Rich

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Rich » 10 jan 2005 01:32:21

"Trent SC" <trent@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:41e1a83b$0$74239$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered
all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at converting it
into
lower case to make it easier to read. This would also tie in with my own
database and will have a degree of continuity when I merge the two
databases
at some point in the next few months (the family line is now traced back
to
AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname,
I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the trick? I
use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility like this;
with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it manually!

TIA


There is a GEDCOM utility that may do that (Gedcaps.exe Windows 95 Beta
Version).
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gumby/ged.html

Legacy will change the surname to Caps or Initial Caps but not the given
name.

Alan Jones

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Alan Jones » 10 jan 2005 01:51:42

PAF 5.2 under TOOLS has "change names to mixed case"


"Trent SC" <trent@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:41e1a83b$0$74239$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read. This would also
tie in with my own database and will have a degree of continuity when I
merge the two databases at some point in the next few months (the family
line is now traced back to AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we
arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname, I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the
trick? I use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility
like this; with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it
manually!

TIA

singhals

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av singhals » 10 jan 2005 03:13:52

Trent SC wrote:

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin entered
all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at converting it into
lower case to make it easier to read. This would also tie in with my own
database and will have a degree of continuity when I merge the two databases
at some point in the next few months (the family line is now traced back to
AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and surname,
I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the trick? I
use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility like this;
with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it manually!

TIA



And if/when all else fails, open the .ged in a word-processing program
and use the search/replace -- it won't eliminate the manual part, but it
will reduce it to non-painful proportions. (You copy'n'paste whatever
it is you don't like, type into the replace-with box what you want and
hit replace-all.)

Remembering ALWAYS to SAVE_AS text with a .ged extension.

Cheryl

Trent SC

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Trent SC » 10 jan 2005 09:37:26

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read. This would also
tie in with my own database and will have a degree of continuity when I
merge the two databases at some point in the next few months (the family
line is now traced back to AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we
arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname, I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the
trick? I use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility
like this; with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it
manually!

TIA

And if/when all else fails, open the .ged in a word-processing program and
use the search/replace -- it won't eliminate the manual part, but it will
reduce it to non-painful proportions. (You copy'n'paste whatever it is
you don't like, type into the replace-with box what you want and hit
replace-all.)

Remembering ALWAYS to SAVE_AS text with a .ged extension.

Thanks to all for the helpful replies.

Geoff Pearson

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Geoff Pearson » 10 jan 2005 21:59:36

"Trent SC" <trent@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:41e1a83b$0$74239$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read. This would also
tie in with my own database and will have a degree of continuity when I
merge the two databases at some point in the next few months (the family
line is now traced back to AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we
arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname, I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the
trick? I use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility
like this; with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it
manually!

TIA


What kind of evidence exists for people in AD 970?

Dave Hinz

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Dave Hinz » 10 jan 2005 22:27:29

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:59:36 -0000, Geoff Pearson <gspearson1647@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Trent SC" <trent@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:41e1a83b$0$74239$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read. This would also
tie in with my own database and will have a degree of continuity when I
merge the two databases at some point in the next few months (the family
line is now traced back to AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we
arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname, I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the
trick? I use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility
like this; with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it
manually!

What kind of evidence exists for people in AD 970?

Depends on the family, the country, and so on. If you tie into a
notable family, those are fairly well documented quite far back.

Dave Hinz

Trent SC

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Trent SC » 11 jan 2005 01:28:19

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read. This would also
tie in with my own database and will have a degree of continuity when I
merge the two databases at some point in the next few months (the family
line is now traced back to AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we
arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname, I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the
trick? I use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility
like this; with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it
manually!

TIA

What kind of evidence exists for people in AD 970?

In some cases, a reasonable amount, and certainly enough for me to add them
to the family tree! Also, since post-conquest England was only just
beginning to use surnames, many documents (including Domesday) would
identify individuals as "John of Wherever, son of Bill, son of Bob of
Somewhere Else", so it's possible to gain valuable information from a single
source about several generations, which adds to the body of research.

As for my lot, we came over as retainers for William and planted axes in
several Saxons, for which we were rewarded with several tracts of land,
taking as a surname the name of the village where we'd pitched our tent.
The grandfather of these axe-wielding pair of lunatics was 'of Normandy' and
is my 31-greats grandfather. My son, aged 7, thinks this is just about the
coolest thing ever.

dps

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av dps » 11 jan 2005 15:57:34

There is a program called GEDCAPS.EXE which will do what you want.
Google it.


"Trent SC" <trent@invalid.invalid> wrote ...
First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read...

Trent SC

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Trent SC » 11 jan 2005 21:08:10

There is a program called GEDCAPS.EXE which will do what you want. Google
it.

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read...

Many thanks - it did the trick.

Alan Jones

Re: Converting text in a GED file

Legg inn av Alan Jones » 22 jan 2005 17:27:26

Many genealogy programs provide ways to do this auto-magically.
Or they have a little add-on program to do it.



"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
news:NPCdnRI8afZ9eXzcRVn-sQ@rcn.net...
Trent SC wrote:

First off, kudos to Alan Jones, who kindly converted a Personal Roots for
DOS database into GED format for me - many thanks Alan.

I'm now looking at the fascinating data and it seems that my cousin
entered all the names data in upper case, and I'd like to look at
converting it into lower case to make it easier to read. This would also
tie in with my own database and will have a degree of continuity when I
merge the two databases at some point in the next few months (the family
line is now traced back to AD 970 in Normandy, two generations before we
arrived in Britain).

Since we're only looking at two fields to convert - first names and
surname, I was wondering if there's any software out there that'll do the
trick? I use Family Historian and haven't seen a global update facility
like this; with 8,500 entries, I'm not too enthusiastic about doing it
manually!

TIA

And if/when all else fails, open the .ged in a word-processing program and
use the search/replace -- it won't eliminate the manual part, but it will
reduce it to non-painful proportions. (You copy'n'paste whatever it is
you don't like, type into the replace-with box what you want and hit
replace-all.)

Remembering ALWAYS to SAVE_AS text with a .ged extension.

Cheryl

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