Do you mean the Index View? I use it all the time as it's the quickest way to find people in the database. eg1 if I'm reading an email that includes a surname that sounds familiar - I go to Index View and see who I have with that surname. or eg2 I simply want to move to another branch of the tree - the quickest way is to go to the Index view rather than navigate through Family View.
I use Family View and Index View more than any of the others.
I also use it if I'm wondering whether any of the eg Coopers I have in my database could be the same person. (Yes you can search for duplicates but I generally find myself overwhelmed with possibilities - one day I may have a nice file with all the definite non-duplicates marked ;-)) Since I'm careful when entering people and very rarely import a gedcom, I don't have a lot of possible duplicates in my file but I'm collecting Coopers in a particular area in England and some of them turn out to be the same person.
I show birth date/place, baptism date/place (I usually have one of these columns too small to read as I have birth dates for recent people and baptism dates for earlier generations) spouse etc in the columns.
Cheers, Cathy
At 01:15 7/02/2005, you wrote:
what do you use the index tab for? what usefulness does it provide? bill daniels
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