No Ted, you are not missing anything. Legacy Detail Search will only search on one record.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Ted Noonan Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] searching marriages Hi Ron I have never been able to get your option, which is the obvious solution and the way my old program worked, to work. There are no terms husband or spouse in my detailed search tab, only male or female. I get an error message 'no records were found that match the search criteria' when I know there can be hundreds of records. This tab only seems to search individuals. Am I missing something? Regards Ted On 2/09/2012 12:01 PM, Ron Taylor wrote: > Wendy's suggestions are excellent. Here's one more. Use the > Search>Detailed Search and put in "Given names" "Contains" "one of the > Husband's given names" then on the second condition click "And" then > "Spouse's given name" "Contains" "one of the Wife's given names". Similar > logic for your second search. You can search for just about any > combination in the database. > Ron Taylor > > --- On Sat, 9/1/12, Wendy Howard<[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Wendy Howard<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] searching marriages >> To:[email protected] >> Date: Saturday, September 1, 2012, 7:23 PM >> Hi Ted, >> >> There is more than one way to find your couple... >> >> A) In Family View bring up the Marriage List (via the >> icon, or View > >> Marriage List, or Ctrl-M) and search for the couple. >> >> You then have three choices for sorting the list and finding >> a couple: >> >> 1) by MRIN; (not much help to you in this case) >> >> 2) by husband's name (surname, given name); >> >> 3) by wife's name (surname, given name). >> >> Put your cursor in the field of your choice, and start >> typing. >> >> B) In Family View bring up the Name List (via the >> icon, or View > Name >> List, or Ctrl-I) and search for one of the couple. >> >> Again, you have three choice, slightly different to the >> Marriage List: >> >> 1) by RIN; (not much help to you in this case) >> >> 2) by given name; >> >> 3) by surname. >> >> Again, put your cursor in the field that you want, and >> type. >> >> With the Name List, you have more viewing choices - click on >> Options, >> and you can select to include Alternate Names, and/or >> include Married >> Names. This doesn't change your database at all, but >> gives you more >> names in your Name List, which can make it easier to find >> the person >> you're after, depending on what you can remember about >> them. >> >> Hope this helps. :-) >> >> Kind Regards, >> Wendy >> >> >> Ted Noonan said the following on 2/09/2012 11:59 a.m.: >>> Hello >>> >>> How do I search my family file for a marriage knowing >>> >>> - the husband's given name and wife's given name >>> >>> or >>> >>> - the husband's surname and wife's given name >>> >>> Regards >>> Ted 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
