How do I use AppleScript Editor to assign genders in Address Book?

I really wish Address Book was simple & just had a field for gender--but whatever.
There are several things I want to do; if anyone can give my some guidance or maybe direct me to somewhere that can help me with these scripts, that'd be great. I'll just use the female plans for now & then I can go back & figure out the male ones afterward based on the same scripts.
- Create all titles/prefixes as "Ms." from the value of the "father" field as "female" (It was how it was set up, by accident, from an old Facebook friend import)
- Delete the "father" field completely
- Create all titles/prefixes as "Ms." from any Note containing the symbol "♀"
- Delete the symbol "♀" from all Notes.
I'm new to this & have far more experience with HTML, BASIC & SQL, so *ANY help would be appreciated!*
Thank you for your time & consideration!
Respectfully,
Al

So far, FWIW all I've got is individual AddToAddressBook, then in AB itself, drag and drop one by one from the main list into the desired group.

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