On Sunday 28 March 2010 08:40:12 Ivor Jones wrote: > Is there a simple way of doing a Person Search for a surname for all > parishes other than Calstock? > Not really. Your best method is to restrict your search by years. This is a little tedious if you are looking at a very common name and as you have to leave the parish blank, you will get Calstock people as well. It is possible to have an exception filter on a search, but I guess it is a matter of trying to keep the site simple for the vast majority at the slight disadvantage of researchers such as yourself. Myra and Bill do read this mailing list so they might have more cogent comments. -- ==== Michael Lightfoot Canberra, Australia OPC Merther, St Breock & Egloshayle, Cornwall see http://www.cornwall-opc.org michael.lightfoot@pcug.org.au ====
Michael is quite right, the OPC database only accepts % as a wildcard and no other operators (such as AND or OR). Unfortunately, Ivor's search should produce even more results than he has found so far, because an early spelling of the surname was HUN. Regards Myra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lightfoot" <michael.lightfoot@pcug.org.au> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] OPC Database Query On Sunday 28 March 2010 08:40:12 Ivor Jones wrote: > Is there a simple way of doing a Person Search for a surname for all > parishes other than Calstock? > Not really. Your best method is to restrict your search by years. This is a little tedious if you are looking at a very common name and as you have to leave the parish blank, you will get Calstock people as well. It is possible to have an exception filter on a search, but I guess it is a matter of trying to keep the site simple for the vast majority at the slight disadvantage of researchers such as yourself. Myra and Bill do read this mailing list so they might have more cogent comments. -- ==== Michael Lightfoot Canberra, Australia OPC Merther, St Breock & Egloshayle, Cornwall see http://www.cornwall-opc.org michael.lightfoot@pcug.org.au ====