How about: Seatch > Individual > Event Place > contains > County
Richard Van Wasshnova On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Kathy Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a simple way to search for all the people who > I have recorded as living in one county (or state or even country)? > > I am finding that as I get more into the filling out of minute details, I > am needing to collate together all of the people who lived in a certain > county or state. > And as a person might be located somewhere for an event other than a birth > death or marriage, a three tiered search repeated dozens of times is not > helpful when trying to cover any one of a multitude of event possibilities. > I need to be able to collect everyone who has a county or state (or even > as wide as a specific country) listed for me as a result of a single search > return. > I know that we can do an "Any date" search, but I can't see an "Any place" > search. > This kind of search is not possible by going to "locations" as that will > only show people in specific towns, or other locations as specifically > entered, it can not show me everyone who I have recorded as living in Angus > Scotland (for example), it will show me Oathlaw Angus Scotland, or Brechin > Angus Scotland, but not Angus Scotland (unless I have entered that location > for someone without a more specific town, but even then it's only for that > one or two people, not the possibly 150 who lived in Angus Scotland) > > I've submitted this as a feature request, but since we are unlikely to get > any minor updates before Legacy 8 comes out, and this request might not > even come out in the first few minor updates after that, I still need to > find all of the people in one county in a quick and easy manner. > > Aside from the repeated searches with different criteria, is there ANY way > I can do this with a minimum of fuss and bother? > > Thanks > > 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
