Can't you use your tagged list of ancestors and look at each location within 
that tagged list?

Anne
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> On Mar 9, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Linda Greethurst <llg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Martha and Cathy,
> Thank you for your hints and ideas.  I guess I'm just getting lazier and was 
> hoping that I/we/you could figure out a short cut to show only certain people 
> out of a long list who were living in only certain places.  This type of list 
> also would have given me a fast overview of how and where these families 
> overlapped.
> 
> I'm working on Maryland places - have 45 locales but my direct line people 
> only had BMD and events in 19.  And of all the people in my database, only 24 
> of them had any history in to 19 places. Like I mentioned I am working to 
> just get the direct line cleaned up first, then the extended family will get 
> researched in more depth when/if I have the time.
> 
> Linda G
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Cathy Pinner <c...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> Linda,
>> 
>> You may be better off printing your tagged people from the Name list 
>> including the places - there are lots of options for which fields you can 
>> include.
>> Note this "print" can be saved as a csv file. A csv file can be opened in a 
>> Spreadsheet and the various columns can be sorted, so you could sort on a 
>> location field.
>> 
>> OR export that tagged group of people to a new (temporary) Legacy file and 
>> run a Location Report for tagged locations that includes the events from 
>> that new file.
>> 
>> Cathy
>> 
>> 
>> Martha Graham wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Linda,
>>> Bring up the location list.
>>> If you have tagged all locations that you know are for folks in your 
>>> direct line, then you should be able to print a report that will show 
>>> everyone who is both location tagged and direct line tagged.
>>> The problem I see is that the list will be huge! So, in order to make lists 
>>> that are specific to one State, for 
>>> instance, you need to untag everything else in locations.
>>> You could just print the whole thing, but there might be overlap.
>>> I make Location / Surname / Event lists all the time.
>>> Since it is almost impossible to focus on a large group of people in 
>>> various locations. I would create lists specific to one State at a 
>>> time. It would be tricky at first because you will be looking at 
>>> locations and tagged individuals at the same time, but once you get 
>>> the hang of it, you can go through the location list quickly, tag the 
>>> places where your direct line folks are and create the list.
>>> There is no way to include events in the above lists. Those will have 
>>> to be separate functions.
>>> Martha
>> 
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