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 such as people, buildings, ships, etc. In most cases within Clooz, the Subject will be a person. However, Clooz supports several other Subject types 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 another source. The Information Record differs from a Source record which contains most of the citation information that describes the document or the Repository record that is referring to the facility or an 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 component of one or more source citations. Source citation details are usually included in the citing Information Record. document).

• Reformat event dates in the Subject records These are records within the Clooz database representing the Subjects being researched, and contain summary information about the Subject such as the dates for birth, marriage, and death 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.