You can highlight more than one location at a time. To get all the locations in the same place listed together, I sort the list from right to left.
As in any windows program, you can click on the first in the list you want to highlight and then hold shift as you click on the last. OR hold ctrl as you click the ones you want. Then use Options - Show List and make the search list. and continue as below. But you are right it would be easier if we could search on any location contains ... Cathy At 06:39 AM 20/03/2014, you 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
