The real advantage of a focus group is that it does not contain records but instead is the criteria used to identify records in the database. Therefore it is dynamic. If the focus group criteria is for direct line ancestors and you subsequently add more of them to your database, then executing a focus group search will pick up all of them including the new ones you have added. The focus group can contain lots of different criteria depending on how you build it. And the best part is that you can save and re-load focus groups. You might have one focus group for work with Aunt Margaret and another one for the family newsletter, etc. Jenny's instructions will work great for your request.Ron Taylor
--- On Sun, 2/10/13, Paula Ryburn <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paula Ryburn <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search list question To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, February 10, 2013, 5:10 PM Aha! Jenny, I have been wanting to use Focus Groups for a while, but can't get the hang of it.Would you mind too terribly much sending me the instructions to generate a focus group that contains just the direct line ancestors of an individual?(I will most likely say "duh!" after reading it, but appreciate your knowledge so much!)Thanks, --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, January 21, 2013 3:49:56 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search list question On 21/01/2013 21:03, John Roose wrote: > An example: I have a search list of people born, died, buried in Ohio. >>From that list of several hundred names, what is the easiest way to > identify those that are direct ancestors? They are, of course, bold in > the resulting "Search List" but there has to be an easier way than > scrolling down and tagging them individually. Suggestions? Tag your Search list with an unused tag, say 8 for example. Create a Focus Group comprising Direct Line Ancestors and tag that group with, say tag 9 for example. Then Search for Individuals with Tag 9 AND Tag 9 set to tagged. (There might be a simpler way, but I seem to be suffering from brain fog to-day.) -- Jenny M Benson <snip> 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 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
