C.G. Ouimet wrote:
... It's as if the fields Alt Given Name and Alt Given Surname fields
only exixt for those individuals where at least one of Alt Given Name
and Alt Given Surname is actually in use ...
That is exactly the case, If you have not entered either an alt
given name or an alternate surname the field does not exist.
(This is the way relational data bases work, the link between a
person and an alternate name is in a separate table and only
people with alternate names have entires in that table. That
saves storage space since only those people with alt. names use
the storage apace for an alt name and that is how you can enter
more than one alternate name for the same person, it is just an
extra entry in the alternate name table.) That is why searching
for alt names only gives you the individuals that have one or the
other.
To get the 80,000 who have no alternate name. Use a search for
alt given name = wildcard OR alt surname = wildcard. this should
give you everyone in your file with an alt. name entry.
Tag everyone in the search list with a tag you know you have not
used (say 6) or first use the advanced tagging to clear a tag
then tag everyone in the search list with that tag.
Repeat your search and this time look individuals where the tag
you used earlier is untagged. Now all the people without an
alternate name will be returned.
Brian Kelly
Rockland, ON
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