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From: "wim prange" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Deleting a Place Name
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:51:01 +0200
In-Reply-To: <44CF77D5.70406@twcny.rr.com>


Hi Polly,

"deleting higher places" in this context: go the Placerecord for Munnsville
in Places View and remove the contents from 'Higher Place' on the
General-tab: select the entire content of the field and hit Delete. The
higher place (City of Oneida) is still in your places-table, you've only
deleted the link to its placerecord.

When you want to delete the entire record for Oneida, select Oneida in
Places View and hit the Delete-icon on the main toolbar or via menu Data >
Delete Place. Before you do this however, make sure the placerecord isn't
used somewhere else in your database. You can check this on the Links-tab of
Places View.

Wim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Polly Held [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:49 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Deleting a Place Name
>
> Cheri Casper wrote:
>
> >Polly - The reason that you get US is that New York is linked to the
> >higher place level US. You can make a name variant for New
> York that
> >does not have a higher link. Then when you enter you can
> enter it either way.
> >Munnsville must be marked a Local Site, instead of a City which is
> >suspect it is. You need to go to the place record for
> Munnsville, and
> >delete the higher place.
> >
> Cheri, this is where I get into trouble. What is the
> procedure for deleting higher places? I must be doing
> something incorrectly as I end up with empty places and a
> nasty error message that says you can't have an empty place
> record. Could you step me through deleting higher places?
>
> > Then "promote" Munnsville to a city and add back the county
> and state
> >as the higher place.
> >
> >CheriC
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Polly Held [mailto:]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:54 AM
> >To:
> >Subject: [GENBOX] Deleting a Place Name
> >
> >
> >I am still struggling with changing/altering/deleting place names. I
> >have a place name - Munnsville, City of Oneida, Madison County, New
> >York, United States. It is an error since Munnsville is not in the
> >City of Oneida. I went to the event that the place is linked to and
> >changed it to Munnsville, Madison County, New York. Now there are no
> >links to the incorrect place. Now I want to get rid of the incorrect
> >place. Is it as simple as going to the place and on the Data
> pull-down
> >menu, selecting Delete Place or is it more complicated than that?
> >
> >Also, even though I stop typing a place name after the state
> (usually
> >New York), GenBox decides that United States should be inserted and
> >automatically inserts it at the end, even though I don't want it.
> >
> >Polly
> >
> >
> >
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