Many family history societies are based on particular geographic regions, I would like to extract a list of surnames associated with particular regions, along with the the range of dates in decades. This list could then be circulated within the society.
In an ideal world, every address would be linked it to one or more regions. Legacy could derive a list of people associated with each region and produce a list. Perhaps something along the lines of:- Region: Nottinghamshire, UK SQUIRES (1820-1930) 24 people THRAVES (1780-1850) 18 people Region Debyshire, UK SAXTON (1820-1920) 17 people If more that one region may be associated with a particular address, you could have villages or towns. For example. Region: Nottingham, UK SQUIRES (1920-1980) 45 people Region: Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire UK SQUIRES (1850-1930) 21 people THRAVES (1840-1850) 3 people I appreciate that what I'm suggesting isn't easy, but it would be extremely useful! Has anybody else done anything along these lines? or perhaps has some strategy in mind to extract this sort of information. At the moment, the only idea I have is to use Perl to do an analysis of an exported GEDCOM file. But even that will take me at least a couple of uninterrupted days to do (probably 2-3 weeks in reality). http://www.squiresfamily.me.uk/famhist Regards Chris Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
