I have absolutely no problem searching in FT. If you are trying to fill in all of the blanks in the search you certainly don't need to. For me usually the name and birthdate/birthplace are adequate to find the person I am looking for. If you have that few a names in your tree it should be relatively easy to find them using the pedigree by finding how they are directly related to you and then just working on down using the place where it shows the family and click on the child you want which changes that child to the principal one and then click on their child you want and it goes to the next one. I find this relatively easy. Steve Kelsey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian Buck" <mail@sebastianbuck.name> To: <lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Searching a portion of Family Tree > Hi, > > I just wanted to thank you all for your much appreciated input to my > question about how to use the search feature to limit the search only to > your own ancestors. > > So it seems that it's not possible (at least not in FT) to limit my search > to my own ancestors. This is really something that annoys me. I don't have > thousands of ancestors in my own tree but a few dozens. However I often > want > to navigate to a specific ancestor in order to edit some information, add > a > child or a spouse a for any other reason. I find it most difficult to get > to > a specific ancestors in the tree without having the ability to search for > his or her name. A data base wide search over billions of entries is not > very helpful either. > > So how do you manage to find specific ancestors in your tree in FT? Using > another software outside of FT is certainly one good way. Have any other > helpful ideas? > > Thanks. > > Sebastian Buck > Esslingen ward, Stuttgart Germany stake > > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >