Bobby, I took a look at the Ancestry.co.uk search string to see if places could be included. Unfortunately whilst this string includes places it splits them into the fields for town, county (or similar) etc. Legacy does not do this but stores the location as a single string. I did briefly try replacing it with [BirthPlace] but it didn't work. Closer examination does indicate that it may be possible to edit the Legacy string further so that it nearly matches the Ancestry.co.uk string, but unless I am assured that Legacy actually can accept the locations in the [BirthPlace] format when included in the search string, I am reluctant to proceed further.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk ____________________________________________________ Bobby Johnson wrote: > Evert, > > You are on target. that is exactly the point I was making. There > are no [fields] indicated for places, only names and dates. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: Evert van Dijken [mailto:evandij...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:28 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Internet Search Feature > > This is what the Help says about available fields: > > List of Available [Fields] > > Here is a list of the [fields] that you can use in your search strings > in order to pass individual pieces of information about the person you > are searching for. Please notice that there are no spaces anywhere in > these field names. Also, the capitalization of any letter in the field > name does not matter. [Surname] is the same as [surname] or [SURNAME] > or [SuRnAmE]. We use mixed case because it is much easier to make out > field names that have more than one word. > > > > [GivenNames] > > [FirstName] > > [MiddleName] > > [Surname] > > [WholeName] > > [BirthDate] > > [BirthDate_DMY] > > [BirthYear] > > [DeathDate] > > [DeathDate_DMY] > > [DeathYear] > > [StartYear] > > [EndYear] > > So I think if Bobby enters [BirthPlace] and [BirthCounty] in the > search string Legacy will not pull this information from the database. > I think if ancestry.com is using place names in the search string > legacy should be able to use [BirthPlace] etc. If Legacy does this > allready the Help page should be updated (6 - 132). > Evert > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
