Great Idea, Tessa. I for one will try it.Joan > From: murke...@gmail.com > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location report by surname or by state > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:17:20 -0800 > > One other thought Jane - run your location report, print it as a PDF > (print it to your computer not paper!) and then use the find function > looking for Kentucky, or whatever else you may have used to signify > Kentucky. You should easily see which pages of your PDF you might need > to print and work with - you should also have the counties, cities and > individuals/surnames that way. > > Hope that helps (just tried it and it worked for me). > > 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 11:07 AM, Tessa Keough <murke...@gmail.com> 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 <sarlesinsi...@gmail.com> > > 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. It would be nice if it > >> could be further delineated by county, but at least by state. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Jane S. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 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://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/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://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/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://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 >
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