Greetings Super Sweepers...
We are on our last five days before the "Clean-A-Thon". I hope you all get rested up because this weekend we will be super busy doing our sweeping and cleaning!!! Last year we shared some strategies that were helpful to the team so I want to share them again this year.
1. Suggestion 603, 633 and 663 USA too early in birth, death or marriage location just remove United States from any birth dates or death dates that is before July 4th 1776
2. Suggestion 631, Wrong word in death location, this usually means copy and paste the cemetery name in the bio and deleting it from the death location. See Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.
3. Suggestion 835, Local File Reference, This is a sticky one, local file references must be removed because no one can see these. May require an long explanation to the profile manager. But there are a plethora of these, 500 to 1500 per state. Be prepared for backlash from profile managers.
4. Suggestion 868, Just paste in <references /> directly below ==Sources==, there are between 204 to 598 in all states.
5. Suggestion 851, Gedcom uncleaned interpret date. This one is a little more difficult because you have to read through all the Gedcom data and find and delete Interpret Date.
6. Suggestion 802, Empty Profile, you just need to past in the following:
{{Unsourced}}
==Biography==
==Sources==
<references />
7. Suggestions 611 and 641, birth or death location in lowercase. All that needs to be done to these is capitalized the first letter of the place name. But there are only 10 to 30 of these per State.
These are just some basic tips to easy clean-up of our southern states. Please share if you have some others that will help our members get the best results from their efforts this year!! Be ready to "go Super Sweepers Go" !!!
