In RM10, when I am working in the Citations Area with the Citation Used, I am wondering if there is a way to search for the Type of “Name.” I would to find all the Name types so that I could delete them for the Citations. I have adopted to use the Person as the dominate type and not use the Name type.
If I’m understanding, NOT down to the granularity of just one Type such as …Name
But down to the granularity of All Type(s):
Publish>Source List>Print all sources in the database>Checkmark ONLY Citations and Citation use>Generate Report
The Type is listed in parentheses.
I believe the answer is no. RM’s “used” lists are a wonderful feature, but they have no filtering capability.
I was trying to think if there was another approach. For example, you can find Birth facts with sources via an Advanced Search using the criterion Birth > Source > Exists. But things like Name, Primary Name, and Alternate Name are not accessible to Advanced Search in the same manner as are facts such as Birth.
I do get where you are coming from where you want to link things like citations, notes, and media associated with a person’s name to the Person record rather than to the Primary Name record. With one important exception, the Primary Name record is completely worthless. It is completely inaccessible to things like RM’s reports. The one exception is that the Primary Name can be exchanged with an Alternate Name. But that’s the only reason the Primary Name record even exists.
When I first started doing genealogy in the mid-1990’s, I would link all citations to the Person Record. Then I started linking citations to facts such as Birth and Death, but I also still linked all the citations to the Person record. Finally, I quit linking all citations to the Person record and only linked citations to facts.
However, I discovered that there wasn’t really a fact for names, so the only place I could think of to link citations for evidence of a person’s name was to the Person record. So that’s what I did and that’s what I still do. The only citations I link to the Person record are evidence of a person’s name. In theory, it would make sense to link such evidence to the Primary Name instead. But the way RM actually works in practice, linking citations to the Primary Name is completely worthless unless you ultimately intend to swap a Primary Name and and Alternate Name.
It would be trivial to find citations to Primary Names using an SQLite script outside of RM.
PS: Just before posting, I read the message from kbens0n a second time. His suggestion sort of works. Run a Source List report on all sources, which will be very slow. I turned off all the report options except for Citations and Citation Use. Save the report as a file. Edit the file and search for the string (Name) It will find citations both for the Primary Name and for Alternate Names, but that’s about the best you can do. That’s why I say that it “sort of” works.
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