RE: [LegacyUG] Search string for Ancestry

2015-11-19 Thread Bobby Johnson
Here is a paragraph from the help files that may be of interest. “List of Available [Fields] Here is a list of the [fields] that you can use in your search strings in order to pass individual pieces of information about the person you are searching for. Please notice that there are no spaces

RE: [LegacyUG] Search string for Ancestry

2015-11-19 Thread Bobby Johnson
When you click on the “Customize Searches…” button and then click on “Add” you will see a list of terms that you can use in generating a search string. [SpouseSurname} is not one of them. Bobby From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:40 PM To: lega

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-30 Thread Howlanddavisii
Lean & Jay: Thank you for your explanations and pointing me to the correct place in the Help file within Legacy Howland Davis -Original Message- From: Leon Chapman To: LegacyUserGroup Sent: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 5:55 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry How

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-30 Thread Leon Chapman
And what about the items in black such as [ ]=[%20] > > Howland Davis > -Original Message- > From: Jay 1FamilyTree <1familytree@gmail.com> > To: LegacyUserGroup > Sent: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 10:12 pm > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry > >

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-30 Thread Howlanddavisii
[%20] Howland Davis -Original Message- From: Jay 1FamilyTree <1familytree@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup Sent: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 10:12 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry Thanks Leon Your ancestry string works MUCH better than the one I had... Thanks! Ja

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-30 Thread Jay 1FamilyTree
uch > as given name and surname and, if so, what goes in the ROOT_CATEGORY if > anything? And what about the items in black such as [ ]=[%20] > > Howland Davis > -Original Message- > From: Jay 1FamilyTree <1familytree@gmail.com> > To: LegacyUserGroup > Sent:

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-29 Thread Jay 1FamilyTree
Thanks Leon Your ancestry string works MUCH better than the one I had... Thanks! Jay On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Leon Chapman wrote: > Jay: > > Here are a couple you can try: > > > *Ancestry.com * > > > http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MS

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-29 Thread Leon Chapman
Jay: Here are a couple you can try: *Ancestry.com * http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=[GivenNames]&gsln=[Surname]&msbdy=[BirthYear]&uidh=g1k [ ]=[%20] *Ancestry.com - Legacy 8* http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse