Data Cleanup

There are several data cleanup functions you can use:

• Regenerate the Other Surnames value for all Subjects Subjects are the objects you are gathering information about. In most cases with Clooz, this is people. However, Clooz supports several other types of subjects such as businesses, real estate/buildings, ships and artifacts.. This field is maintained by Clooz, based on all of the different surnames and spellings in the Information Record Information Records in Clooz hold the content information coming from a document or other source. These differ from a Source record that contains most of the citation information describing the docment, or the Repository record referring to the facility or online service where the document was found. details (the actual surname found in the source A source record in Clooz should be viewed as the higher level components of a source citation. Citation details are pulled from the citing Information Record. document).

• Reformat event dates in the Subject records These are records in the Clooz database representing the Subjects being researched, and contain summary information about the Subject such as the birth, marriage, and death dates for people., and/or in Information Record events. This is useful if you change the date formatting options and want the new format rules to be applied to events.

To perform functions, check the boxes for the desired actions and then click the button to apply the actions.