When you click on the “Customize Searches…” button and then click on “Add” you will see a list of terms that you can use in generating a search string. [SpouseSurname} is not one of them.
Bobby From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Search string for Ancestry I am trying to fine tune my Customized Search from Legacy for Ancestry.com When you are doing a search from an Ancestry page and the Spouse Surname is part of the search request, the resulting URL contains &mssns0=[SpouseSurname] but if I add that info my Legacy Customized search, It doesnt seem to recognized the [SpouseSurname] as a variable? http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=%5bGivenNames%5d&gsfn_x=0&gsln=%5bSurname%5d&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&mssns0=%5bSpouseSurname%5d&msbdy=%5bStartYear%5d&msddy=%5bEndYear%5d&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=7t6> &gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=[GivenNames]&gsfn_x=0&gsln=[Surname]&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&mssns0=[SpouseSurname]&msbdy=[StartYear]&msddy=[EndYear]&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=7t6 Is this something that Legacy isnt doing in the background to create the actual search request? Thanks for any help. Jay ' 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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

