I often search for similar things in my databases. And, by the way, I don't think any other genealogy product currently available can do these type of searches. This example pre-supposes that your locations are City, County, State, Nation. Step 5 will remove USA so those locations will only have City, County, State. Assume tag9 is clear.
1) View>Master Lists>Location and uncheck "Show People" and "Show Map" 2) Click Options>Expand/Contract Location Parts 3) Select "All Locations in List" and "Expand Long Location Names and Contract Short Location Names" 4) Check the 9 boxes under "Parts to Work On" 5) Check Remove ", USA" and ", United States" 6) Click "Continue" to make changes to the master locations list. 7) Click "Sort" then click "Country, State, County, City" button. Then with country still highlighted, use the "Move" down arrow to move it below the city in the sort parameters. Then click "OK" to sort the locations into State, County, City order. 8) Type "Indiana, Washington" in Find and notice all the locations that are in Washington County, Indiana. 9) Click on one of the desired locations to highlight it. Hold the shift key and use the down arrow to expand the highlight to all the Washington County, Indiana locations. 10) With all locations highlighted that you want, click "Options>Show List" then tag everyone who use these locations on tag9. 11) Now Search>Find>Detailed Search Individual Tag9 Equal to Tagged AND Individual Surname Equal to Rippy. 12) Pay attention to the 3 radio buttons at the bottom left of the Search window. Note that you could randomly select and highlight locations in step 9 instead of a range selection by holding Control as you click. One more possibility would be to use the "Global Text Search" available in Ltools which can find a text string in any of the Legacy tables including the location fields. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:56 PM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: On 19/03/2014 22:12, Jane Sarles wrote: > OK, I have one more question on how to use Legacy. It is basically the > same question and has the same problem I always face - perhaps just my > shorthcomings. What I often need to know is: Certain people in a > certain place. Example: > > All those with the surname Rippy in Washington County Indiana > All those who married someone with the surname Rippy in Washington > County Indiana > > Of perhaps all those with the surname Wells who anything happen to them > in North Carolina. > > I just need those in a separate chunk (I don't know if focus group or > tagged group. My preference is a whole new file so I can work with it > as I research) > > I can get the list of all those with the surname and their spouses. What > I cannot then do is narrow it to a particular county. There is no > search factor of "any place in their data equals Washington County" I > should have to go through birth place equals, or marriage place equals, > or death place equals, and so on. What you need to do is look at your Master Location list and find the first location which includes Washington County. Click on it and then click List Options and select Create Search List new Search list. Find the next Washington County location, click List Options and Create Search List but this time select Add to existing list. Continue to add to the existing Search List for each location. Then set up a Search for people with the name Rippy but make sure you select Only search the Search List at the bottom of that screen. The result will be a list of all the people named Rippy with any Event in Washington County. -- Jenny M Benson 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
