Can I identify on my watchlist the profiles on which I need to do a GEDCOM clean up?

Question

I am slowly cleaning up profiles on my watchlist which were generated automatically when I loaded them.  Is there a way I can identify those which I have already cleaned?

Comments

Norm what I do is sort by edit date so I can see which I have worked on most recent and go back and check. Its not perfect but it works for me.

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My need is different.  I am starting with earliest relative and try to work forward.  I do not always remember what I have done.

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But if you sort by edit date, and you know that you did some editing last Wednesday, but don't remember exactly what - then sorting by edit date will at least tell you which profile you last worked on.

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That will help.  I think my problem is that the genealogy software I use allows me to flag subsets of my watchlist and I miss that.

Answer 1

The error report might help a little, in that it can identify which of your profiles have multiple duplicates lines and other similar problems. (indicative of needing a gedcom cleanup).

But otherwise, there's nothing yet that specifically identifies profiles of needing cleanup. (it might could be added to the error report eventually)

You could also do a google search against WikiTree looking for specific keywords that might be included in a gedcom generated biography -- but I don't know how you would limit that search to your own watch list. Maybe there's a way to include your own name (as profile manager) in the search criteria.

You could also start using Personal Categories to help track them -- but you'd still have to manually add the tag to each of them. Doable if you use the suggested sort by last edit method.

Answer 2

You could copy-paste from your watchlist into a word processing program to create a checklist that you could manage manually.