Wendy, This morning I have been having a further look at the method which I suggested and I am now very uncertain about the results which are obtained for the words "United States".
I was looking for a short cut to the method suggested by Bruce but,to be certain of getting *all* the results, I would now suggest that his method be used. I intend to do some more checks using wildcards to see if I can come up with something that I can have confidence in. BTW., Chuck, no comma is needed between your "*" and "U.S.A." Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] I can't get this search to work! Has anyone tried Ron's suggestion? It works for me. Ron said "In the detailed search would you please like to try: Individual; Birth Place; Wildcard; *[!United States]" I've got my American locations set to say "United States of America", so I typed: *[!america] and the search returned people who were NOT born in the USA according to my database. Is that what the original poster wanted? Kind Regards, Wendy Mike Fry said the following on 17/05/2012 7:37 p.m.: > On 2012/05/17 05:02, Laurence E Stephenson wrote: > >> Birth location NOT EQUAL TO United States >> >> Death location EQUAL TO United States > That won't work! It relies on only having the country in the location > field. > That's why you need the contains clause. > > I think you have to do this in two steps. > > 1) Tag all those that have the USA as part of their death location and > create a > list. > > 2) Take the list, clear all tags, and tag those that were born in the USA. > > 3) Now create a sub-list of those that have not been tagged as being born > in the > USA. > > Unfortunately, this will include those who died in the USA but for whom > you have > no birth location. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
