Can you export a search list to get what you want? Then condense it in via spreadsheet program to surname and location counts?
*Jessica Morgan* *Sr Engineering Technologist, Black Stone Minerals* *Chair, SPE GCS Petro-Tech Study Group* ******************************************************************** GedMatch kits: A064089 (SMK), A276959 (JRK), A608610 (TJ), A798429 (Jo), A817318 (JRKM), M399320 (JKM), M918651 (MM), several phasing kits as well FTDNA kits: B12555 (SMK), B12524 (JMM), B13031 (JKM), 368036 (CJ) Ancestry.com: jrkmorgan - all trees private Hometown Cotton Valley, Louisiana. Ratcliff/Lockey and Allen/Morgan decent. Researching Allen, Bandy, Basinger, Bethune, Beshea, Cruthirds, Kaylor, Lockey, Morgan, McGarity, Ratcliff, Striplin, Teague, Umphries, Urquhart, Wilkins - Current generations Louisiana, Arkansas areas; Migratory from Alabama, North Carolina On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jane Sarles <[email protected]> wrote: > Tessa, > > Actually, I did get inspired and began to clean up my location list. I > still am not sure that it will work for what I need though. For one > thing it will give me every person, not just each surname. I guess I > can manually do a list from that, but not a very elegant solution. > > I will see, once I get the location list cleaned up (if I live long > enough). > > Jane > > > On 12/30/2014 2:07 PM, Tessa Keough wrote: > > Jane > > > > I am not sure if this is what you are looking for (did not understand > > why tags came up on your detailed search) but you might want to do a > > detailed search with the following > > > > individual, birth place, contains, Kentucky > > OR > > individual, death place, contains, Kentucky > > OR > > individual, event place, contains, Kentucky > > > > click on clear list before this search and then create your list > > > > then when you have those results go into search (from options) > > and click on add results to existing list > > > > individual, marriage place, contains, Kentucky > > OR > > individual, burial place, contains, Kentucky > > OR > > individual, baptism place, contains, Kentucky > > > > then (making sure you are adding results to existing list) create list > > > > you should get (I tried it with another State since I don't have any > > Kentucky folks) > > > > individuals with either a birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial or > > event place containing Kentucky (unless you did not include Kentucky > > in your location). Then you can look at the list or print it out - > > only grab surnames or grab the basic details on each person. Best of > > luck. > > > > I guess this is why it is a good idea to spring clean your master > > location list (I go through mine twice a year to catch errors) and I > > do make a point to spell out the city/town, county, state/province, > > and country. It does make things somewhat easier when you want to use > > your database if you think about data input and data output. > > > > There might be an easier or quicker way, but that is how I did it. > > > > Tessa > > Tessa Keough > > Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) Registered ONS > > Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ > > Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jane Sarles <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I searched the message archives but did not see a solution to the > >> problem I have with a report. I wish to search a number of surnames > >> that are in a particular state. For example, I plan a trip to the > >> Kentucky History Center and would like to get a list of all the surnames > >> I have in that state. Surely there is a simple way to do this, but i > >> cannot figure it out. > >> > >> I have done a location report and i see that I can print it, but I have > >> not done a very good job on inputting my locations. Some have the state > >> first and some have the township or county first. I have tried to clean > >> up the list but it would take years. > >> > >> I also tried to do a search (detailed search option), but it asks for a > >> tag and I am not working with tags, but with locations. And I don't > >> want each person, but only each surname. > >> > >> This probably isn't clear (I get that comment a lot) but what I wish to > >> do is get a list of surnames that have any event, birth, death, > >> marriage, whatever, in the state of Kentucky. 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