Regarding this last note comment of "came up with the same 168 individuals"
- check the radio buttons in the bottom left. You may have it set to "only
search the Search List". You want to "Clear list before search".
Regarding your basic search question: You can do it in one search.
1st c
Cathy,
A search for Burial Location contains a comma. Each location uses a comma as
a separator. This should give you the list that you need directly.
Jay
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Vallevieni
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:15
Jane:
The first time (doing it the way I originally described) I came up
with 1800+ individuals (probably everyone in my database). When I
did it JL's way, I came up with 168 individuals. After your message
I tried it again the original way and came up with the same 168
individuals as JL's
Cathy,
I followed your detailed search criteria and came up with a long list too.
To prove my search was valid, I re-ordered the list by RIN. Finding a few
missing RINs, I jotted them down and looked at a few of those individuals
(that is the missing RIN folks). Sure 'nuff, they had no burial pl
JL:
Brilliant! I'm ashamed I didn't figure that out. I (and everyone
else) should be able to apply this logic to searches where you want a
field to contain anything (not be empty).
Thanks!
Cathy
At 07:29 PM 7/20/2008, you wrote:
You could try contains 'e' since that's the most common let
I would search the opposite. Search for all individuals where burial place
equals blank. Tag that list, then search for all individuals where that
number tag is untagged.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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From: "Cathy
You could try contains 'e' since that's the most common letter, and
combine that with OR contains 'i' just in case.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
Cathy Vallevieni wrote:
I want to create a list of all individuals that have a burial p
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