Hi Chris,
The closest I think you can get from Legacy currently is to use the
Master Location list and the options in the Print Location Report.
First, sort your location list Right to Left.
Second, Highlight all locations in UK, Nottinghamshire and then tag
them (Options - Tag - highlighted locations)
Third, Print Location Report for tagged locations only with detail of
people (and events) who use them. (also found under Master Location
list Options - Print)
You can include the dates of relevant events and life range of people.
Possibly you then can think of a way to process this further. I
haven't your programming ability.
Otherwise, if you know how, why not write your own query in Access?
Cathy
At 05:01 AM 13/04/2006, you wrote:
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
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